Podcast: Pets, new-build guarantees and refugees
This week’s podcast may have an international flavour – Jimmy is in Scotland and Sue in Sydney — but it covers familiar territory. First up we talk about a campaign…
This week’s podcast may have an international flavour – Jimmy is in Scotland and Sue in Sydney — but it covers familiar territory. First up we talk about a campaign…
Strata managers in NSW have “warned” whichever party is in power after next month’s government election that they must continue supporting the work of David Chandler and the Office of…
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…
As we often say here, apartment living can be a minefield of unintended consequences. And it even sees battles in which neither of two diametrically opposed forces are wrong. It…
This week we look at how one of the greatest conveniences in apartment blocks could be not only costing you money but undermining efforts at recycling. The humble garbage chute…
Last week a builder and waterproofer emailed us in despair. New regulations make it almost impossible for him to continue doing the work he’s been performing efficiently and effectively for…
Just suppose you want to invest in the residential property market but you don’t want to be a landlord, Airbnb host or, even worse, unwitting enabler for dodgy developers. You’re…
NSW strata schemes that have flammable cladding on their walls have just over a week left to register for the state government’s Project Remediate program which offers affected buildings interest-free…
Here in Sydney we have often wondered why we didn’t hear too much about defects in Victorian apartment blocks. Was it because they built better buildings there? How about, maybe…
This week’s podcast is short but not very sweet (despite it being our 200th). Sue is away in the UK, which allows me to vent about a couple of issues…
I know we already have two posts up on the website but we couldn’t let the news that an insurer is going to offer a 10-year warranty on new apartment…
COMMENT: A crucial element in the NSW apartment building revolution has arrived with the first of the big insurers prepared to take a punt on Chandler’s five-star reforms. As we…