News: Interest up, prices down and lodgers out

The reports this week are dominated by the interest rate rise but there's more going on in apartment property news, if you look for it.

Result: Another strata manager is struck off

Another manager from a notorious strata management firm has been fined, had her licence revoked and been banned from running a company.

Quirky: $1m fixer-upper or knocker-downer?

Quirky: Stars drop their sales prices, ruins attrct ridiculous bids and rough sleepers told there's no room in Broken Hill.

Forum: Neighbouring block car parking grab

Forum: Neighbours take rogue parking to a new level by putting a gate in the fence to make access to their illegally parked cars easier.

NEWS: The unaffordability blame game kicks off

NEWS; House prices are falling but not fast or far enough for the homeless and all the experts have different takes on why that is.

Complaints reveal horrific state of Qld strata

A strata advice hotline has exposed the extent and depth of the problems in Queensland's corrupted body corporate system

All the property news you’ll ever need

Every week we curate the apartment stories and cull the rest. This is what a whole day's unedited news from Leftfield communications looks like

Forum: Land grab, tree shade and a rejected ramp

Forum: All that plus the neighbours who've cut through the fence from their block to install a gate and use the adjoining scheme's visitor parking.

Quirky: Property-mad Aussies will buy anything

Quirky: Ruined homes, haunted houses, tiny lots, jail cells and spaceships - no matter how weird and wonderful, someone somewhere wants to buy it.

ATO cracking down on Airbnb-for-me properties

The ATO crackdown on tax breaks for short-term lets used by their owners for personal holidays could cost Airbnb hosts thousands of dollars.

NEWS: More women choosing flats for safety

NEWS: Melbourne women choose flats over houses for security reasons - could we see female-only unit blocks? Plus all the other apartment news.

Forum: Why ‘compulsory’ training is anything but

Forum: Why committee training lacks bite, insurance won't pay injury claim in full, boxes stacked in parking space, aren't all balconies common property?