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Flip or stick – buying off the off-the-plan buyer

  • 26/04/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

You like the idea of a brand new apartment, but you’re nervous about buying off the plan before construction has even started? An increasing number of people are now choosing…

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    Covid confusion as strata mask orders remain

    • 15/10/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Building managers are taking down signs requiring residents to wear masks, strata committees are telling tenants and owners that masks aren’t required on common property and everybody in strata land…

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      Forum: Can I be sued over a climb and fall risk?

      • 22/12/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      So, you’re living in a block where the powers that be don’t want to spend any money on anything. Trouble is, it has lovely old iron lace balustrades on which…

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        Lannock offer to cladding blocks as lender backs off

        • 22/05/2019
        • Author Jimmy-T

        The announcement that one of the country’s biggest non-bank mortgage lenders will refuse to finance the purchase of apartments known or suspected of having flammable cladding on or in their…

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