Introduction
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Definitions
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Number of strata schemes and lots in Queensland
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Buying a condo |
Watered down issues in strata files
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Better buying guide—apartments
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Why older strata units rock
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Strata living—a hotbed of competing interests
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Shops below apartments in Sydney a flawed model
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Animal Welfare League on Brisbane’s lack of pet-friendly apartments
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Pet ban idea could hit apartment values, say Gold Coast developers
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Why I will never buy a new apartment in Sydney
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What you need to know about living in an apartment
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NSW—Two Lot Schemes
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Aluminum cladding
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Brisbane student accommodation barred from housing residents
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Builder refuses to replace illegal flammable cladding
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Flammable building cladding in Queensland
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Australia’s problem with building defects
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Combustible cladding to be stripped off Lacrosse Docklands tower
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Why an Aussie high-rise blaze is more likely than not |
Condos could face bills for millions to replace unsafe cladding
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Owners in Queensland call for urgent audit after Grenfell Tower fire |
Tenants in the dark on flammable-cladding fire-trap risk
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Builder claimed cladding blamed for Grenfell Tower inferno is OK to use
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Does the public deserve to know where the illegal cladding is?
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Prahran strata residents fear fire risk over flame-coloured
facade
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'Dodgy' safety certificates rife on building sites, Senate cladding inquiry told
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Barbie & smoking bans could cut cladding fire dangers
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Two ways to deal with flammable apartment tower cladding
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Guess who pays when new cladding task force finds blocks at risk
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Lacrosse cladding case: Owners caught in 'painful' legal minefield
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Why highrise owners face bill for replacing dangerous cladding
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Strata owners fear insurance bills as much as cladding fires
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Lacrosse owners take $11million recladding loan
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Construction issues |
New building laws won't stop dodgy developers cutting corners
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Foreign investors to flood Melbourne with dingy flats
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Apartment rules overhaul: at least they'll have windows
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High-rise apartments are bad to live in and bad for society
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Five apartment building problems that can cost buyers dearly
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Melbourne's high-rise nightmares taking a tall toll on owners
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Melbourne’s faulty building crisis |
Urgent action needed to tackle faulty new apartments and houses
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Australia's apparent addiction to high rises
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Victoria’s faulty building crisis |
Leaking buildings, mould & court battles: Apartment boom's dark side |
NSW regulator fines architect $20,000 over apartments
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Exploding glass balconies in Melbourne
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Residents call on Ku-ring-gai Council to fix Killara ‘death trap’
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Award-winning Landmark building at Charlestown has problems
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Maintenance issues
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Concrete cancer epidemic—don’t bury your head in the sand
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Concrete cancer: informing all lot (unit) owners
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Is salt damp covered by insurance and who is responsible?
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How hiring a lift consultant can save your building money
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The apartment toilet problems & the clever property manager
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Short-term rentals
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High-rise residents fight sharing economy
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Watergate
OC (condo) decides against short-stay appeal
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Watergate: Battle is over, war goes on
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An extra 1,000 residents & 8 illegal brothels in one city building |
Is Airbnb destroying strata living?
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Airbnb tackles backlash among
residential neighbours |
How condo owner-residents subsidize short-term units
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Under proposed laws Unit blocks (condos) forced to take Airbnb lets
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Police bust illegal ‘pop-up’ brothel in CBD apartment |
Airbnb guests trash Sydney apartment, turn it into a 'junkie den'
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City of Sydney betrayed strata residents over short-term letting
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The sharing economy shouldn’t become the taking economy
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Flood of AirBnB listings sees hosts income drop by 40%
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Short-stay letting inquiry states stratas can't stop short-term rentals
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The extra-costs caused by short-term rentals
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Melbourne apartment buyers chase a piece of Airbnb’s market
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Owners in Sydney’s most exclusive condos prepare to battle Airbnb |
Sydney—Anti-short-term rental owners raise $60,000 war chest
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Dirty tricks & dodgy laws as unit blocks declare war on holiday lettings
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Condo owner discovers tenant was illegally renting home on Airbnb
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Illegal boarding units
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No stop to slums-in-the-sky
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Students taking turns to sleep in overcrowded Melbourne high rises |
$100,000 fine for running secret hostel in Sydney supermarket
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‘High-rise slums’ are amongst us
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Reports of Overcrowding at Melbourne’s ‘Lacrosse Building’ |
$150 a bed ads raise concerns of overcrowding & exploitation
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Australia must stop overcrowding of apartments
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Ginger Jiang sues after being forced to jump from burning apartment |
Tracking the rise of room sharing and overcrowding
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Living rooms for rent by the minute outsource the whole idea of home
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Miscellaneous
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How an advocate helped a strata (condo) owner
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NSW to locate, identify & deal with ‘Slumlords’
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A real life spiderman thief is scaling balconies
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Letting agents’ hidden rewards: Shhh….It’s a secret!
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Elderly activist pushes for simpler retirement village contracts
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Owner of 3 car spaces in East Ivanhoe flats wants to build 3-level house
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Home ownership - the new class divide
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Restaurateur burned by complaints over cooking smells
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Sale of apartment owned by monk who disappeared sets legal precedent
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What should you buy your concierge at Christmas?
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Energy
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Victoria to review electricity rules for apartments, retirement villages
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Iconic Melbourne building makes big savings on electricity use
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Individual water meters for apartments
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Sydney cuts apt levies up to $60,000 in global warming battle
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How a Melbourne apartment building cut its energy consumption in half
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Governance
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Whose bank account is it? |
Why are developers allowed to sell 25 year caretaking contracts?
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VCAT president slams ability of developers to control bodies corporate
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Appointing an Administrator to a Body Corporate (condo)
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You can get into a lot of trouble in 300 words |
Blanket pet bans in apartments ruled illegal in legal fight |
NSW: New limits imposed on proxy votes
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NSW: Strata reform & proxy votes: How many can you hold?
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A reminder of why strata brawls are so fierce
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How to talk to other owners at AGM if most vote by proxy?
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Can a bylaw silence angry owners?
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Gazebo apartments a ‘basket-case’ wracked with legal threats
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How to overthrow your strata committee |
A better way to buy insurance?
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Can we avoid strata manager insurance commissions?
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The golden rules of by-law enforcement
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From a misplaced mat to a $170k lawsuit
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Letters of Demand – Don’t sweep it under the carpet
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Long-term contracts
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The golden rules of by-law enforcement
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What to do when Don Quixote comes after your windmills
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Strict rules on capital works plans could sink strata schemes and inspectors
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Running a business in residential strata & the impact on insurance
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Woman wins four-year legal battle with owners corporation
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How Do I Stop Cigarette Butts Litter from Neighbours Upstairs?
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Stern warnings issued for condo owners following BBQ gas explosion
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Survey reveals what irks tradies (contractors) the most |
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New developments
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Toyota accelerates plan for Melbourne high-rise
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Harry Triguboff sees caravan parks as solution to housing crisis
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'Nearing epidemic proportions': Burglars hit new apartment buildings
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Shared facilities
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The George crumbles as war breaks out among owners
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Termination
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32 people become millionaires from one sale |
Apartment owners selling site in Sydney's Macquarie Park
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Melbourne unit owners could be forced to sell their homes
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