Why are we subsidising short-term lets?
As rents soar across Australia there is a quirk in tax law that can only be making matters worse Rents have gone up by 10 per cent or more in…
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Online session on new strata reporting Hub
As of the beginning of this month, all strata schemes across NSW will need to report key information about their schemes and the people who run them using the new…
Forum: Is it a flat roof or a terrace floor?
Now, we’re going to need you to use your imagination for a minute here. You have a rooftop apartment – a penthouse, if you like – and it has a…
Forum: Fix for holiday lets and affordability
Look, we know that with half of Sydney under water and the other half trapped at the airport, thoughts of holidays are far from our minds. But foreign tourists are…
Podcast: Knives out for Commissioner Chandler
This week’s Flat Chat Wrap has a look at something we predicted a few weeks ago – that the knives would soon be out for Building Commissioner David Chandler, just…
Holiday lets: A national solution to state crises
As international travel opens up again, and we await the next tourism boom, it’s residential renters who will pay the price of uncaring “sharing” when ever more rentals are turned…
Podcast: Hope for future in strata melting pot
Having braved the wilds of Scotland and the woes of Covid, we are back with a brand new Flat Chat Wrap podcast, with our usual mixture of optimism and, it…
Podcast: Lawyer in the Hot Seat, part 2
Welcome to the second part of Lawyer In The Hot Seat, in which strata lawyer (and Flat Chat sponsor) David Bannerman invited us on to his webinar. This week, Jimmy…
Podcast: Flood fears and by-laws to loathe and love
One of the problems with preparing a fairly light-hearted podcast like the Flat Chat Wrap is that there are a lot of serious issues around that you just can’t ignore…
Podcast: Builder fails despite home shortage
They say strata is a world of contradictions and never has that been so obvious as this week when one report reveals a shortage of housing, most of which will…
Away daze: When holiday rentals don’t add up
With so many investors having bought property during COVID-19 in regional treechange and seachange areas, many are now working out what to do with their second home as the pandemic,…
OCN issues revised Airbnb by-law after NCAT ruling
As we reported last week, when the owner of two properties in a Sydney Olympic Park complex challenged their identical by-laws restricting short-term holiday lets, an NCAT member had found…