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Forensic research – your best hope for not buying a high-rise lemon

  • 14/07/2019
  • Author Jimmy-T

With state planning ministers meeting this month, informed in part by a behind-closed-doors meeting of development “stakeholders” in NSW last week, you can be sure that building defects in their…

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    Flat Chat Wrap #29 – the great Mascot Tower giveaway … and what it means about cladding

    • 25/06/2019
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Confronted by images of residents of Mascot Tower evacuating the building, the NSW government has moved relatively swiftlly to plug the accommodation gap with a loan to the Owners Corporation…

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      Boycott: Is it time we had an off-the-plan ban?

      • 22/06/2019
      • Author Jimmy-T

      The advice from Owners Corporation Network spokesman Stephen Goddard could not have been more blunt: Don’t buy apartments off the plan. His actual words in an opinion piece in the…

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        Flat Chat Wrap #28 – Residents out on the street as another Faulty Tower crumbles

        • 18/06/2019
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Residents of the 130-plus apartments in the Mascot Tower apartment block in Sydney’s South were evacuated over the weekend when cracks in walls and supporting beams suddenly widened. JimmyT and…

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          Faulty towers – hope for the best but prepare for catastrophe

          • 17/06/2019
          • Author Jimmy-T

          It’s hard to know exactly how to respond to the chaos at Mascot Towers.  If you haven’t heard, last weekend hundreds of residents were forced to leave a South Sydney…

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