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Great Escapes: Northern delight, epic Arctic cruise

  • 29/02/2024
  • Author Jimmy-T

For hundreds of years explorers and traders who wanted to get from the Atlantic ports in Europe and North-East America, to the Pacific Ocean had two major obstacles in their…

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    Podcast: And now the good news… for some

    • 08/02/2024
    • Author Jimmy-T

    There’s some good news, some bad news and some great news in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. The good news (for investors) is that apartment prices and rents are going…

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      Lock up and Leave: The first (not last) resort?

      • 06/12/2023
      • Author Jimmy-T

      In recent weeks we’ve been sending readers off to India, Spain, Fiji and Japan but this week we’re going somewhere much more familiar and closer to home. As you can…

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        Lock up and Leave: the appeal is Moorish

        • 09/11/2023
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Our Pick of the Trips this week has to be a culture vulture’s tour from Madrid to Marrakech, sampling the best that the Moors had to offer including the architecture…

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          Owners conned thanks to Qld law loopholes

          • 13/12/2022
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Queensland strata owners and buyers are being conned by developers, rental agents and management rights operators, claims the state’s Unit Owners Association (UOAQ), and it’s all possible because blocks are…

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            Owners battle illegal lets and crippling contracts

            • 23/07/2022
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Queensland apartment owners are ramping up their battles to regain control over their homes on two fronts. One aspect is the fundamentally immoral (but entirely legal) practise of developers selling…

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              ATO cracking down on dodgy holiday let claims

              • 18/07/2022
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Danger, danger, holiday letting hosts! If you have been fudging the figures on your tax claims for your holiday home investments, the Australian Tax Office is coming after you. Actually,…

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                Holiday lets: A national solution to state crises

                • 04/07/2022
                • Author Jimmy-T

                As international travel opens up again, and we await the next tourism boom, it’s residential renters who will pay the price of uncaring “sharing” when ever more rentals are turned…

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                  Strata residents dodge holiday let by-law bans

                  • 08/02/2022
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  UPDATED: Feb 10. With Australia’s borders about to open to overseas tourists, there is considerable confusion over who can and can’t let their flats as holiday lets in strata blocks…

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                    Trafalgar loses another battle in dog fight

                    • 06/02/2022
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    A controversial mixed-use holiday rental and residential building has lost another battle in its continuing, long-running war against pets in the building. Thanks to a Queensland Body Corporate Commission tribunal…

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                      Airbnb is back … but the new registry will bite

                      • 21/10/2021
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Would-be Airbnb hosts hoping to cash in on the opening up of regional travel on November 1 and even the eventual arrival of overseas visitors could be be in for…

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                        Messy message as final ‘airbnb’ code delayed

                        • 12/04/2021
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        Late last week, when NSW Planning finally released the new regulations on short-term holiday letting – aka STRA, aka “airbnb” – there was something to annoy everyone. The proposals would…

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