Podcast: Airbnb tax and other strata matters
Busy, busy, busy in the Flat Chat bunker this week. We start with a wrap-up of what went on at the Owners Corporation Network (OCN) Strata Matters conference last week…
Property investment gain with a lot less pain
Can you imagine investing in a property that you can’t enter, occupied by tenants whose names you’ll never know and whom you will probably never meet? You’ll never get demands…
Sydney’s seasiders to get their own strata group
Apartment and townhouse residents and owners in Sydney’s eastern suburbs will soon have an opportunity to catch up, exchange information and advice, and maybe even campaign for changes in the…
Poll: What would you cut in your strata budget?
If you had to make cuts in your strata spending, where would the axe fall first? Budgetting is crucially important today with the cost of living going up and inflation…
Podcast: Busy making plans to do nothing
This week we introduce you to the concept of “downvesting” – no, it’s not a singlet fashioned from duck feathers, but a growing trend whereby impending retirees buy a property…
Time to get ready for your next strata disaster
Between the dire warnings of the doom-scrollers and the blinkered “she’ll-be-right” vision of climate denialists, it’s hard to know what the coming summer will bring in terms of crisis and…
Superfund looks after its own with rental build
A health workers superannuation fund is tipping $100 million into a new Build To Rent (BTR) complex that will eventually house more than 360 renters and their families. The project…
Tenants freeze in rental power squeeze
The vast majority of renters have spent the past winter living in conditions that were not only too cold for comfort, but were actually unhealthy, according to a new report.…
Forum: Let the kids play … somewhere else
The big carry-over Forum debate this week isn’t about pursuing levies debts – that’s sooo last week – it’s about whether kids should be prevented from playing on a common…
Govt help makes home ownership harder – report
Governments efforts to help more people get into home ownership have made it harder, rather than easier, for first-time buyers to get into the market, according to a new report.…
Podcast: Big ideas, tax bribes and Fonzie flats
This week in the podcast, Sue reports back from a two-day seminar about property investment with the news that, yes, more apartments are going to be built in Australia and…
Low-cost homes lost in the ‘missing middle’
There’s a growing body of opinion that low-rise apartment blocks could provide a compromise solution to the housing crisis – if only Nimby councils would allow them. Once upon a…