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26/07/2025

New Post: Experts fear as combo sites for unit blocks boom A huge surge in the number of home owners clubbing together to sell their homes to create combined sites for unit blocks and cash in as developers seek potential spots for new apartments. And, according to a report in the Australian Financial Review, (https://www.afr.com/property/residential/neighbours-selling-together-make-a-1-6b-prize-but-it-may-be-too-late-20250707-p5md21) that has prompted warnings that it could lead to an oversupply of large building sites. And some home owners only now https://www.flatchat.com.au/?p=80531

25/07/2025

New Post: Forum: Should I pay for a common property fix? Our main question on the forum this week is from a reader who wonders if it would be easier just to pay for a common property wall repair and ask for the money back when the scheme can afford it. Now, most strata relationships depend on trust and goodwill. Not every solution needs a written contract and not every dispute needs to go to court https://www.flatchat.com.au/?p=80527

24/07/2025

New Post: AI is very clever but not truly strata smart I was listening to the radio last week and heard an alarmed representative of the Victorian Tenants Union complaining that renters were challenging their advice, arguing that Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots offered different and therefore superior information. That made me wonder how good the advice on strata issues would be if you asked AI so I set Chatgpt, Co-pilot, Claude.ai, and Google the following questions to https://www.flatchat.com.au/?p=80522

21/07/2025

New Post: Stranded bungalow attracts big bucks bids For eight years, a humble bungalow stood firm, stranded as the last freestanding home on a street of tower blocks where some apartments reach more than forty storeys high. But this lonely little no-rise home in the riverside suburb of Rhodes, bought for $978,000 in 2017 and rented out for $900 a week, sold at auction for $8.15 million last weekend – a 733% capital https://www.flatchat.com.au/?p=80413

20/07/2025

New Post: Forum: Tiles, tenants and a little sound advice I love it when a Forum inquiry elicits a heap of good advice and the original poster gets a result … even if it takes a while. About a year and a half ago, Flatchatter Vermont complained that the owners of the flat above hers had installed tiles on the floor and noisy tenants in the flat – a lethal combination. When she complained to https://www.flatchat.com.au/?p=80450

19/07/2025

New Post: When your committee ignores new strata laws The NSW Government’s new strata laws are full of good intentions but what happens if a strata committee just ignores them? In short, it’s still up to individual owners to take up cudgels to fight the good fight. Take the new strata regulation that says members with conflicts of interest shouldn’t be allowed to be present when the issues in question are being discussed. Previously, https://www.flatchat.com.au/?p=80439

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