A fraction shy of 75 per cent of the vote supported our right to put a clothes-drying rack on our balconies. That wasn’t enough. Strata law needs to change.
Millions of Australians live in apartments,but many new developments ban washing from being hung outdoors.
Australia has the highest uptake of rooftop solar in the world,but the growing number of apartment dwellers has been left behind. This is how to turn the tables.
The Australian Consumers Insurance Lobby has warned maintenance quotes are being inflated by up to 120 per cent for people in strata units amid limited oversight by committees.
Reforms of the state’s strata laws are set to address poor behaviour by managing agents as sector advocates call for the commissioner to have greater powers.
I’ve spent longer debating which frozen dumplings to buy at the supermarket than committing to a mortgage that ends two years before I’m eligible for the pension.
You think being booted from a comedy show is unfair? Strata is stopping my kid from crawling on communal grass.
One in eight forced bankruptcy filings in NSW last year were applications by owners’ corporations to make individual owners bankrupt.
Residents in crumbling apartment blocks on the north shore are being targeted with warnings of disaster unless they sell - so the buildings can be redeveloped.
Changes in our landscape and society are happening with little understanding of the legal structures being created and the resulting burdens for homeowners.
I just got outbid on the seventh apartment I’ve tried to buy in Sydney,and with every property I miss out on,my standards drop.