Forum: New flatmate peeved by pet pee pong
An unusual issue has cropped up this week and it has a surprisingly simple solution … or it would be if finding somewhere to rent in our cities wasn’t so…
Podcast: Qld forced sales, big trouble in Little Bay
No sooner had we said last week that Queensland needed to look at their “collective sales” laws – allowing a super majority of owners to compel the minority to sell…
It’s time to punt the point scoring on Mascot Towers
It’s been almost four years since their homes in a crumbling apartment block were deemed uninhabitable. But if that wasn’t hard enough (while being occasionally kicked to the kerb by…
Vic authority cracking down on phoenix builders
Victorian building companies who deliberately and repeatedly go bust to avoid paying debts have been put on notice, with the state’s Building Authority (VBA) working as part of the Phoenix…
Qld to allow forced sales of ‘hold-out’ units
Queensland’s body corporate laws are to move closer to one of NSW’s most significant strata law changes of recent years, with a proposal to allow collective sale of apartment blocks…
Forum: Can we share power to save money?
There has been a trend over the past few years for blocks that had one electricity supply, who then shared the costs according to unit entitlements, to install separate meters.…
Podcast: Drumming up votes with Mascot plans
This week we offer you a podcast with all the bells and whistles – more accurately, it’s drums and gongs – as we take a very brief detour to listen…
Here comes the new wave of student over-crowding
The news that the Chinese government has decreed that students must have in-person tutoring for their degrees to be recognised means approximately 40,000 of them will soon be flooding back…
Qld laws blocking relief for flooded residents
Relief and compensation for apartment owners whose homes were destroyed by Queensland’s floods are being blocked because of outdated laws that prevent the sale of apartment blocks unless all owners…
Turkey arrests builders of collapsed high-rises
Dozens of contractors were detained over the weekend in Turkey, as anger grows over the consequences of the devastating earthquakes and the government vows to take action against construction negligence…
Forum: Blindsided by a sneaky committee coup
It’s a classic strata committee coup: on the TV show Survivor, it would be called a blindside. Obviously, someone in our Flatchatter’s strata scheme didn’t like the way things were…
Podcast: Unit boost too late for returning students
There’s some good news and some possibly calamitously bad news in this week’s podcast. Firstly, the number of apartment building approvals was up by more than 50 per cent in…