It's real! Building faster, cheaper, better apartments
Imagine if you could build apartments in half the time at 15 per cent less cost and a guarantee of no waterproofing, fire safety or structural defects.
‘Tell ’im he must be dreamin’,” say strata’s Darryl Kerrigans. Apartment blocks take longer to build than ever, cost more, and fire and waterproof…
Is this the end of balcony laundry bans?
Last week Sue dropped a bomb into a discussion about new strata laws in NSW, one of which will invalidate by-laws that block sustainability changes because they would alter the look of the building.
Does this mean the end of by-laws that forbid drying laundry on balconies? Surely not using a tumble…
Going Dutch on rent controls
This week we’ve taken the podcast overseas as we’re recording on a cruise ship off the coast of Norway.
But it gives us an opportunity to look at one of the vexed questions of living in strata in Australia.
You may not know this but there is already one city in Australia that has rent controls. Do…
Simple but significant rewards for our key workers
Don’t be put off by a tinkle or two of classical music at the start of this week’s podcast. It’s just a small acknowledgement of the fact that we are in Warsaw, where Polish-born piano master composer Frederic Chopin was raised.
What do Warsaw and Gdansk have to do with apartments? Heaps as it turn…
Too slow for easy low-cost housing fix
It’s a problem with any bureaucracy, anywhere in the world – and it’s also the reason strong figures in politics prevail – doing the right thing the “right way” takes a lot longer than just getting stuff done when it’s most needed.
The principle of “it’s easier to apologise than it is to get permis…
Fake hosts - our scariest podcast ever
We’re back. Or at least, one of us is for real, but the other one is fake, thanks to an Artificial Intelligence app.
This week I fed two articles from the Flat Chat website into an AI app called Jellypod. I chose the one about NSW Premier Chris Minns’ visit to the Netstrata offices and the other a…
Written out of history: The First ANZACs
Journalist and author Jimmy Thomson believes there is one group of soldiers who have been overlooked: the combat engineers or ‘sappers’. It was their job to clear the way for others to follow and Thomson says that makes them the first ANZACs.
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