FLAT CHAT – Strata living news, advice and opinions

Chandler champions low-cost fast-track apartments

Former Building Commissioner David Chandler is back with a "disruptive" plan to build more affordable apartment blocks.

Forum: The question of the week is a doozy: Can you make strata committee members pay for bad decisions? The answer will surprise you.

NEWS: It's mostly exxy properties that are getting cheaper - apart from in the low-cost suburbs where negaive equity looms.

Fake real estate ad listed every strata scheme problem while offering a phony $3million discount on the purchase price

QUIRKY: An architect-designed small flat renovation makes the most of the available space using tricks employed by tiny houses and caravans.

Forum: Hot on the heels of our Lawyer in the ...um ... hot seat, comes our new feature - Question of the Week.

NEWS: The big news is that nothing happened with interest rates ... so it's back to whingeing about too many unit blocks and not enough housing.

It's the dodgy developer story that has everything, from phone taps to bribes ... except the kingpin who has fled the country to avoid arrest.

Survey shows strata owners want more engagement from strata managers ... but it's a major reason for going it alone.

QUIRKY: Lawn and garage for sale at $2m, what if they held an auctio and nobody came, and how pets are driving property purchase decisions.

Strata managers' CEO moves on but the bucketloads of praise seem to have forgotten the monumental events that occurred under her watch.

Forum: One strata committee drags its feet over the best way to sort a salty problem in a ceiling, another seems to jump the gun when hiring lawyers.