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How to turn your scheme into a community

  • 14/03/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

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

    • 04/01/2022
    • Author Jimmy-T

    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…

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      How buddies in the block beat the isolation blues

      • 11/10/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      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…

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        Why trendy cafes won’t cut the mustard with lower income families

        • 16/06/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        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…

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          PODCAST: Stratabox and building communities through communication

          • 25/09/2019
          • Author Jimmy-T

          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…

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            PODCAST: The buzz on strata – it’s locusts V bees

            • 17/09/2019
            • Author Jimmy-T

            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…

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              Flat Chat Wrap #41 – The future of apartments … bees vs locusts

              • 17/09/2019
              • Author Jimmy-T

              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…

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                Flat Chat Wrap #36 – From block parties to hijacked high-rises

                • 13/08/2019
                • Author Jimmy-T

                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…

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                  Is the Vertical Village just another urban myth?

                  • 10/08/2019
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  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…

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                    Flat Chat Wrap #18 – the joys of apartment living (no, really!)

                    • 26/03/2019
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Jimmy Thomson talks to Sue Williams about why she loves apartment living and would never live in a house.

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                      New hope for high-rises hijacked by criminals

                      • 03/09/2018
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                      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…

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                        How to plug in to your instant community

                        • 17/03/2018
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                        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…

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