Podcast: Living the high life and 50,000 listens
What a relief! With Sue back in the podcast saddle, and now that we are very much in holiday season, we can lighten the mood a little – especially since…
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Airbnb by-laws – holiday gifts to your schemes
With the weather being unpredictable these days, there are other sure signs that summer is on the way; Christmas music is flooding our shops, decorations are popping up everywhere and…
Podcast: Rents rise, clubs bet the house on flats
Surprise, surprise! What started off looking like a barren day on the pod-front, right at the end of the school holidays, turned out to give us a lot to talk…
‘Dob in B&B breachers’ plan could boost housing
We are barely into spring but the annual summer short-term rentals spin-fest, postponed for a couple of years by Covid-19, is cranking up already. On one side you have Brisbane…
Podcast: Poor ratings – where’s the stars, Dave?
This week on the Flat Chat website we celebrate the launch of Sue’s new book about spray-on skin pioneer, Professor Fiona Wood. What’s the link with strata? Well, if there…
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…
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…