Areas where apartment prices are going up!
The Australian property market has become a stomach-churning game of swings and roundabouts that’s still seeing prices soar for units in some areas – and dropping steeply in others. If…
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Townhouses on the rise as unit slide continues
Strata buyers are drifting away from apartments and towards townhouses in the post-Covid era, as people seek more space in which to work from home, and less close contact with…
Unit blocks where renting is a sign of success
“You gotta own a piece of dirt,” the man said. No, he wasn’t a farmer. In fact, what made this noteworthy was that he was in the business of selling…
Roundup: How big a deal is the size of your unit?
Of all the things you might have to sacrifice to be able to afford an apartment to buy or rent, how far down the list would size rate? Less important…
Roundup: Neighbour dug a secret cellar under her flat – then sold it
Just when you think it’s safe to dig through the latest posts to the Flat Chat forum, somebody comes up with a question that makes you go WHAT!?! But then,…
Unit living: You never had it so good
In the great welter of anti-apartment material that has been published over the years, the minor, humorous whinge about the difficulties of living in flats that appeared in Fairfax online…
Dogged denial leads to barking madness
When it comes to excuses and denial, pet owners can be even worse than doting parents. It’s never the dog or cat’s fault – there’s always some factor other than…
Redefining off-the-plan rorts
Here are a few new definitions for your strata dictionaries: Sunset clawbacks: Where a developer in a ‘hot’ market allows a project to over-run its “build-by” date, uses the sunset clause…