Podcast: Mascot in court and how to clinch a deal
In this week’s podcast we catch up with what’s happening at Mascot Towers as owners in the ill-starred building prepare for their day in court. Specifically, they will be pursuing…
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Podcast 100: Upside of a stairlift stand-off
There are two major strands to this week’s podcast. The first stems from a question raised in the Flat Chat Forum, about an apartment owner who wants to install a…
Fun and occasional fury as our podcast hits 100 eps
We’ve scored a century! This week sees us post the 100th episode of the Flat Chat Wrap – and that’s only counting properly produced and distributed episodes. We would have…
Podcast 99: Long-term rental will tempt tenants
This week we returned to a topic we raised in the last podcast, namely build-to-rent and specifically the new Liv Indigo building at Sydney Olympic Park. They held an open…
Podcast 98: A tale of two very different rentals
We are looking at two very different kinds of rentals this week. The first is build-to-rent apartments (which is definitely NOT affordable housing, regardless of what anyone else might tell…
Shared Space strata summit is a world first
You could never accuse strata lawyer Amanda Farmer of standing still for too long. On top of being a very active and successful strata lawyer, she’s a founder of Women…
Hyperbole Towers – an audio strata sitcom
It’s here! The long-awaited podcom (podcast sitcom) set in a dysfunctional apartment block’s strata committee is live and ready for your ears. The premise of this audio comedy, Hyperbole Towers,…
Podcast 82: Dogs, design and Donald Trump
If you are up to your eyes in paint, tiles and taps – or even better, just looking through the brochures as you prepare the domestic make-over you can’t put…
Podcast 77 – cowboys, counselling and comedy
There are just two main discussions in this week’s podcast but the topics are both hugely significant in very different ways. In the first we look at the new powers…
Podcast 74: Bully for you – how aggressive should strata lawyers be?
What is a strata lawyer’s job? That’s the question we ask in the Flat Chat Wrap podcast this week. Is it to find a reasonable solution, based on strata law,…
See JimmyT on Amanda Farmer’s Happy Hour
For those of you for whom too much Flat Chat isn’t enough, I leapt into the world of live podcasting this week when I was the guest on strata lawyer…
Podcast 71 – Redesigning flats for work and a legal view of solo meetings
Sometimes the way we want to live influences architecture, sometimes architecture influences the way we live. There are still older blocks dotted around Sydney’s harbour suburbs where someone who wanted…