Podcast: Block voting and election home truths
Podcast: Parties promise more homes (with very different policies), Vic to get low-rise blocks, Strata managers want national defects protection and rents rise.
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Podcast: Five years on, pets are here to stay
Podcast: Five years on from the Jo Cooper case pets are here to stay PLUS, how a ban on rent bidding is helping tenants and a kitchen sink drama.
Podcast: Bank rate hogwash, strata dog wash
A new trend in affordable co-living, the narrowing gap between house and apartment prices, why economists deal with pie in the sky, and dog washing bays in unit blocks.
Podcast: Why the rental gap is closing fast
There are myriad reasons why apartment rents are getting closer to and even, in a couple of areas, have overtaken the rents demanded for houses.Is it because the immigration tap…
Podcast: And now the good news… for some
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…
Podcast: Management rights an $8bn business
Some big, big issues have shuffled shamelessly into the glare of the podcast spotlight his week. Firstly we talk about the buying and selling of management rights and how that…
Sydney officially our worst city for renters
Renters are being driven out of our major city centres, with students, pensioners and low-income workers especially suffering in the current affordability crisis, according to the annual National Shelter-SGS Economics…
Podcast: Can rent crisis solutions both work?
The podcast has an international flavour this week – and not only because co-host Sue dropped in just before she jetted off to Europe. Reports from Scotland suggest that build-to-rent…
Forum: Your thoughts on rents, pets and NCAT?
We’re going to depart from the normal reader Q&A format this week, to try to gauge your thoughts on a number of issues. Firstly, should we be happy or worried…
Podcast: Is Airbnb the solution, not the problem?
Whether you love or loathe Airbnb, you have to admit its founder, Brian Chesky, is a pretty smart guy. Anyone who can parlay an idea to rent an airbed in…
Apartment rents soar in our two biggest cities
Australia’s rents are continuing to rise rapidly, with median rents hitting record highs across five of the eight capital cities over the past three months. And it’s renters in units…
Podcast: Party ‘poopers’ and property panic
It’s a mixed bag in the podcast this week – but there’s a lot of doom and gloom about.We have the Reserve Bank threatening more interest rate rises in an…