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Webinar will plug blocks into EV charging facts

  • 19/04/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

Can individual owners have electric vehicle (EV) charging in their apartment block parking spots or do they have to wait till the whole building is cabled? Can the owners corporation…

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    How styling can mask a pile of property problems

    • 18/04/2022
    • Author Jimmy-T

    A cooling property market has led to estate agents having to work just a bit harder to move apartments and houses.  And, as Sue Williams reports, that has meant some…

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      Forum: Mystery of a bulge in a bathroom wall

      • 12/04/2022
      • Author Jimmy-T

      It’s Easter and it’s not only the buns that are hot and cross. It’s bad enough when there is a problem in your block and you don’t know what’s causing…

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        Podcast: EV doc block shock and green backflip

        • 12/04/2022
        • Author Jimmy-T

        It’s another bumper podcast this week with some topics revisited, some from the Forum and others that are fresh out of the Flat Chat hot cross bunfight oven. First up,…

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          Lack of foreign investors to hit rental supply

          • 12/04/2022
          • Author Jimmy-T

          The continuing absence of overseas investors from the Australian property market, added to many local investors’ reluctance to buy new and off-the-plan properties, may lead to a significant undersupply of…

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            ‘Free money’ for blocks with budget shortfalls

            • 12/04/2022
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Strata schemes are being offered what could be, if they choose, “free money” to fill the holes in their budgets created by owners defaulting on their levies. And assistance is…

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              Losers pay: Special levies mandatory for NCAT cases

              • 12/04/2022
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Listen up all you litigious committee members! We have discovered something via the Flat Chat Forum that should make every strata committee in NSW think long and hard before they…

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                Doctor sells electric car after EV charging blocked

                • 11/04/2022
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Confusion about strata by-laws has resulted in a busy doctor having to sell his electric vehicle (EV) and go back to a gas-guzzling, polluting car when his strata committee refused…

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                  Covid housing response ‘fast but patchy’ – report

                  • 08/04/2022
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  National and state governments’ housing policy responses to the pandemic were fast and mostly effective but too often it was left to landlords and tenants to carry the weight of…

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                    Forum: Locked out as car park under repair

                    • 05/04/2022
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    QUESTION OF THE WEEK: There’s a good old-fashioned strata barney going on over on the Flat Chat Forum.  It started when a tenant was told by her property manager that…

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                      Architect anger, developer delight at planning backflip

                      • 05/04/2022
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      NSW architects have slammed the state government’s backflip on proposals to compel developers to include sustainable elements in new designs and steer clear of flood and bush-fire susceptible areas, labelling…

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                        Podcast: Will data diving replace tenant checks?

                        • 05/04/2022
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        A couple of weeks ago we received a press release from a company called Equifax who are a data analysis company that specialises in credit checks, among other things. Those…

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