Strata laws need a sanity clause
Did the earth move for you on Wednesday? Or was the long-awaited arrival of a raft of new strata laws just another day at the office? To be honest, the…
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Smoking zones planned for apartment blocks
Sydney’s unit blocks may soon get a feature they will share with pubs’ pokie parlours, as well as some overseas international airports. Apartment owners will soon be able to set…
MPs reject pro-airbnb laws
The tide appears to be turning on the apparently frantic rush to make unrestricted apartment holiday letting the norm in Australia. The upper house in the Victorian parliament has rejected…
Fast-tracked strata disputes first go in-house
Dispute resolution in NSW strata schemes is about to get a lot easier. Whether it will be better remains to be seen. Under the new strata laws, due to…
New laws – new seminar
With the new strata laws just over the horizon, a number of strata professionals and community groups are organizing information events. The next Uber off the rank is an Owners…
Strata regs: The legals have landed
The new strata regulations are with us and it is interesting to see what kind of flesh they have put on the bones of the impending strata law reforms. Regulations are…
Don’t panic: strata changes explained
Confused about the new legislation? Scared, even? Why wouldn’t you be – there are 90 different changes to NSW strata laws, plus all the regulations on top of that, ranging from…
Strata law changes date set – catch up with the chat
The new strata laws are due to come in on November 30. Well, most of them – we won’t see the developers defects bond until next July at the earliest.…
Roundup: Nitpickers set sights on strata laws
Every so often on Flat Chat, our readers get a bit nit-picky and we don’t get so many big sexy issues like ”my neighbour’s dog ate my cat” or ”can…
New strata laws explained
We seem to have been talking about strata law changes for the last 100 years and certainly we are on the brink of the biggest shake-up of strata law in…