Building Commissioner David Chandler’s resignation letter, tabled in Parliament today, reveals growing concerns about former Fair Trading minister Eleni Petinos and her dealings with the property development group that hired…
If there is one area of NSW Liberal politics that may be glad that the kerfuffle over the appointment of a trade envoy to New York is drawing so much…
It all happened with zero fanfare and little fuss but the NSW department of Fair Trading lost another commissioner this month. In the same week that Building Commissioner David Chandler…
The abrupt sacking two weeks ago of Eleni Petinos, Minister for both Small Business and Fair Trading, has exposed a major flaw in both the NSW government’s ministerial structure and…
As predicted on this website months ago, Building Commissioner David Chandler has resigned, just weeks after announcing that he had extended his contract for another year beyond its agreed end…
The NSW Government has agreed to extend the rental assistance package to Mascot Towers resident owners up to the end of June this year. Residents were forced to abandon their…
We may be jumping the gun here but our fears that strata would be taking second place to small business haven’t only been confirmed, they’ve been compounded. You may recall…
This week on the pod we ask the question, if Strata doesn’t belong in Fair Trading, then where should it go? As Jimmy explains in this column (which also appeared…
When Dominic Perrottet announced his new cabinet last week, it wasn’t the changes at the top that drew most attention from apartment owners and strata professionals. It was one near…
Strata schemes that are dragging their feet on repairs may be forced to undertake them, embedded networks that cheat apartment owners could be killed off, pet application fees could be…
The NSW Government has appointed the state’s first Property Services Commissioner in a move that it says “will herald a new era of trust and engagement between the real estate…
We have something of a star guest on this week’s podcast. Sue Williams, our regular co-host, has allowed us to dip into her recordings of her interview with Building Commissioner…