Podcast: Pumping irony and airbnb on defensive
Jimmy and Sue discuss the first-floor resident being driven mad by the thumping and pumping from a pro gym beneath her flat PLUS how Airbnb is responding to a global…
Jimmy and Sue discuss the first-floor resident being driven mad by the thumping and pumping from a pro gym beneath her flat PLUS how Airbnb is responding to a global…
Victoria is reversing its open slather policy on short-term holiday lets with new regulations to come into force at the start of next year that will tax holiday lets and…
There’s been considerable speculation about NSW Strata Commissioner John Minns this week after the revelation on an ABC news report last week that he has retained a significant holding in…
A penalty of more than quarter of a million dollars imposed on a Wollongong strata scheme where a worker died in an avoidable accident should send a jolt through owners…
The growing global movement against Airbnb and its ilk is finally gathering momentum both here in Australia and overseas. When rough sleeping and homelessness is at an all-time high, tenants…
We have a lot of fun on this Forum – and kick around a few serious topics too – but I thought it might be time to get real with…
What happens when a developer can’t sell all their apartments so then lists them on Airbnb? Are they running an illegal short-term rental hotel? And didn’t their sales people tell…
As we hurtle towards the end of the financial year, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is warning rental property owners that their tax returns are in the spotlight this time…
Here’s a dilemma that I’ve been waiting to see crop up in the Forum for a couple of years now – can short-term letting hosts be charged the difference if…
There were a few interesting tweaks to NSW strata earlier this year and one of them was a radical reform of the conflict of interest rules. Previously committee members who…
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…
The NSW government has just closed its entries for people wanting to comment on changes to short-term letting laws. One proposal has been a limit on the number of people…