Flat Chat Wrap #31 – Tip of the defects iceberg and why it’s such a massive problem
In this week’s episode of the Flat Chat Wrap we look at the revelation that the Opal and Mascot towers “disasters” are just the tip of a very large apartment…
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Why everyone has gone quiet on over-crowding
The powers that be have gone curiously quiet on one of the major issues affecting apartment blocks: overcrowding. Where have all the pictures of rooms stacked with bunk beds, subdivided…
What negative gearing changes could mean to you
With big changes to negative gearing on investment properties proposed by Labor, SUE WILLIAMS looks at what a change of government might mean to the value of your apartments. The…
Flat Chat Wrap #14 – Three rants and why we’ll never get a Royal Commission
JimmyT rants about Airbnb, defects (and the Opal Tower report) and cladding … and explains why we’ll never get a Royal Commission into the apartment building industry.
Pets and apartments – an interview
A couple of weeks ago our friends at Pet Insurance Australia sent us some questions about pet ownership in strata schemes, to form the basis for a feature they’ll be…
Dardanelle Towers: Episode 1 – The Naked Truth
We recently discovered what seem to be reports from an apartment block with more than its fair share of idiosyncratic characters. Is this place real, or a figment of someone’s…
Quiz: Do you know your TV and movie apartments?
There’s a theory that seeing so many apartments in TV shows and movies, especially American ones, made apartment living more attractive to Australians. Maybe … maybe not. Why not have…
Will we see a mass evacuation of flats here?
The recent scenes of thousands of people being evacuated from apartment blocks in London shocked Australian apartment residents – almost as much as the deadly Grenfell Tower fire that prompted…
Smart green strata schemes save thousands in levies
Apartment owners in 20 blocks in Sydney are being offered the chance to save an average of $25,000 a year on their annual levies … and tackle global warming at…