Podcast: Family-unfriendly flats by design
Are we building the wrong kind of apartments for families? There’s a very interesting report in the Sydney Morning Herald about a survey that suggests that the cookie-cutter apartment designs…
Forum: Can SM’s contract trump owners’ decision?
There an interesting little puzzle this week that exposes one of the growing number of sneaky tactics that some strata managers use to milk more money out of their clients.…
Podcast: Look back and laugh with our podcom
It’s interesting listening to the podcom Hyperbole Towers – the podcast comedy we recorded almost four years ago – to hear how much has changed.There’s a reference in there to…
We’re Back – Lawyer in the Hotseat returns
Back by popular demand, join JimmyT as he fires questions that are both curly and sometimes quirky, but always informative, at David Bannerman, principal of Bannermans Lawyers. Kicking off at 3.30…
Podcast and AI test negative gearing claims
Negative gearing is in the news again with the Federal Government being urged to abandon or modify it to help ease the housing crisis. Now, here at Flat Chat we…
Forum: Rare posts that tell the whole story
I’s a relatively rare pleasure on the Flat Chat forum to get the full story on a dispute, from initial complaint though to resolution. Often, but not always, Flatchatters will…
Vote on your favourite low-rise design – poll
As promised in this week’s podcast, here are a few samples of the kind of thing we might be seeing in terrace, duplex and town house developments as the NSW…
Podcast: Strata manager scandal isn’t over
As you’d expect, a lot of this week’s podcast is taken up with the resignation of the SCA-NSW President and Netstrata boss Stephen Brell, as well as the ABC News…
How to fix the deep flaws in strata management
The exposure of dubious (but not necessarily illegal) tactics by strata management giant Netstrata has pulled an unwelcome but totally necessary focus on how strata managers operate in NSW and,…
Forum: When the wrong thing is the right choice
There’s a post in the Forum this week which perfectly encapsulates the quandary that often comes up in strata between doing the right thing and just getting things done. In…
Podcast: Good morning, Vietnam apartments
The Flat Chat Wrap comes to you from a whole other country – or at least half of it does – with Jimmy in Saigon trying to finish his fourth…
Brell quits top SCA roles as Netstrata saga rolls on
The allegations in an ABC News article, about strata managers Netstrata have seen its CEO Stephen Brell, step down as Strata Community Association (SCA-NSW) President and resign from its board.…