Podcast: Luxury pad threat to low-cost homes
It’s a bit of a catch-up in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap and a look to the immediate future, too. We’ll be getting abreast of the news that NSW is…
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Great Escapes: Bush tucker with a celeb chef
Are you nursing an urge to see more of Australia, eat some amazing food and rub shoulders with a celebrity chef? Since we linked Flat Chat with our travel website…
Great Escapes: Fantastic trips for Flatchatters
We’re making a bit of a departure (no pun intended) from our normal Lock Up and Leave column from this week as we have hooked up with Luxury Escapes –…
Lock up and Leave: The first (not last) resort?
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…
Lock up and leave: Sue wins travel writing award
We’re celebrating in Flat Chat central this week as our very own Sue Williams has won the Australian Society of Travel Writers award for the best travel news story of…
Lock up and Leave: It just has to be Japan
We usually have a bit of a debate about our pick of the week but the one that jumps out at us this time around is a small-group luxury tour…
In-apartment parking is no pie in the sky
Apartments in a luxury block planned for Brisbane’s New Farm river-front will have parking for the owners’ cars right next to their apartments. And that will “propel Brisbane into an…
Podcast: High-level parking and low-cost living
This week we look at two apartment blocks that it’s pretty safe to say are at the opposite ends of the social spectrum. The first is a Housing Commission block…
Lurid stories behind real ‘Only Murders’ blocks
With a second series of streaming comedy-crime-drama Only Murders in the Building underway, the true stories have emerged of the two famous – if not notorious – New York apartment…
Lose the luxury and save loads on levies
Blame it on overseas holidays to posh hotels or trips to serviced apartments in Surfers and the Gold Coast, but there was a trend in apartment block design a few…
Podcast: Hope for future in strata melting pot
Having braved the wilds of Scotland and the woes of Covid, we are back with a brand new Flat Chat Wrap podcast, with our usual mixture of optimism and, it…
Block where luxury meets affordability and need
It’s the brave new world of affordable housing – a luxury apartment block where some people are forking out up to $2.4 million for units and others are paying just…