Podcast: Chandler on wrangling Mascot deal
We’re back and this is an absolute blockbuster, which, considering the topic, is an oddly ironic term. Last week Sue had an exclusive interview with NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler…
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Your Qs and As: All the 2023 Forum posts that fit
Never mind all the strata news and even our podcasts -although we’re proud of the lot of them – the Flat Chat forum is the engine that drives this website.…
Best and worst (recent) strata news from 2023
They say those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Outside of war zones, nowhere is that more appropriate than in strata. So we thought we’d have…
Podcast: Chandler army’s 90% defects hit rate
Jimmy and Sue take time off from sunning themselves in Fiji to interview Building Commission Policy Director Angus Abadee about the war on defects
Serious defects in half of NSW strata buildings
If Building Commissioner David Chandler needed validation for supersizing his department from 40 to 400 defects detectors, it didn’t take long to arrive. A new report issued this week reveals…
Podcast: Chandler’s army ready for inspections
Don’t know if Building Commissioner David Chandler has a hotline to Santa but with the Building Commission being boosted from 40 to 400 inspectors, you’d have to think all his Christmas…
Mascot owners’ plan to walk away is blocked
Owners in the Mascot tower have failed in their efforts to have the collective sale of the block authorised so that they could sell the site to the highest bidder…
Podcast: Star-struck buyers, Mascot misery
It’s a packed Wrap this week with a lot happening in and around strata. Global credit rating and data analysis agency Equifax – the people who measure how many of…
Chandler’s power boost as phoenixing under fire
Dodgy developers who use phoenixing schemes to defraud apartment buyers and deprive them of their legal rights will suffer another blow next week when the NSW parliament is expected to…
Podcast: Designer blocks and Broadway shocks
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we talk about the proposal to introduce architectural pattern books in NSW. Will they mean even more cookie-cutter apartment blocks or will it simply…
Podcast: Strata scandal right on our doorstep
In this week’s podcast we find ourselves victims of the kind of scams we have been warning people about for a couple of years. We are about to go to…
Poll: What would you cut in your strata budget?
If you had to make cuts in your strata spending, where would the axe fall first? Budgetting is crucially important today with the cost of living going up and inflation…