Chandler backs active lending to boost quality
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…
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‘DNA’ records to keep tabs on dodgy developers
New apartment buildings in NSW – and possibly the rest of Australia – will soon have a “digital DNA” that will allow prospective purchasers, incoming owners, strata professionals and government…
Podcast: Life savings lost thanks to dodgy dealing
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we discuss the awful story about the young woman who put her life savings into a deposit on a flat in a block that’s…
PODCAST 57: Developer database – why bank computers could say “no”
Sue Williams is back in the Flat Chat Wrap co-chair this week as we discuss the proposed Dodgy Developer Database announced by the NSW government last week. Sue reckons it…
Dodgy developer database won’t be for public view
Don’t get over-excited. The new “dodgy developer” database announced this week by NSW Better Regulation Minister Kevin Anderson may well be a game changer, especially if adopted by other states,…
New laws to crack down on dodgy certifiers
Somewhere in the dim but not-so distant past, I recall the government saying it was going to introduce severe penalties for building certifiers who fibbed and gave the Ok the…
New strata laws, same old dirty tricks
Now that the holidays are out of the way, the first of the year’s AGMs will soon be upon us. That will be the first time most of us will…