How to turn your scheme into a community
Strata schemes bring together all sorts of different people, whether they’re from a range of ages, social and economic backgrounds or ethnic roots. This could be a recipe for conflict…
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What the pandemic has taught us about ourselves
There’s a quirky UK comedy series on TV called Taskmaster, in which five comedians are set a series of bizarre physical and logical challenges, usually with hilarious results. At the…
How buddies in the block beat the isolation blues
Start talking about a sense of community to some property owners and strata residents and their eyes glaze over faster than an unsuspecting victim during a dinner party pyramid-selling sales…
Why trendy cafes won’t cut the mustard with lower income families
Potential apartment purchasers would do well to look at the facilities for lower income families in and around their blocks, and not just the price tags on their on their…
PODCAST: Stratabox and building communities through communication
For years I have been struck by the irony of the connection (or lack thereof) between communication and community and how it seems to fall asunder at the doors of…
PODCAST: The buzz on strata – it’s locusts V bees
Are you a locust or a bee? Those are the divisions appearing between residents in Australia as many of us move from the more acquisitive, self-centred lifestyle typified by the…
Flat Chat Wrap #41 – The future of apartments … bees vs locusts
We write and talk a lot about property developers in Flat Chat – not often in positive terms – but we rarely get the chance to hear their side of…
Flat Chat Wrap #36 – From block parties to hijacked high-rises
It would be fair to say that Flat Chat’s approach to apartment living and strata law over the years has been robustly non-academic. We use often cite anonymous sources and…
Is the Vertical Village just another urban myth?
A couple of years ago a friend bought an apartment in a small block near Sydney airport. She based her choice on location, the look of the place and, of…
Flat Chat Wrap #18 – the joys of apartment living (no, really!)
Jimmy Thomson talks to Sue Williams about why she loves apartment living and would never live in a house.
New hope for high-rises hijacked by criminals
I was chatting to a colleague the other day who’s just back from South Africa and she was telling me about an area of Johannesburg that experienced apartment dwellers’ worst…
How to plug in to your instant community
The word “community” gets thrown around strata these days, almost as much as the word “sharing” … only with less dire consequences. All cynicism aside, it’s possible to build strata…