All the best strata industry news from September 2020
Stratacare in the News – Schoolies:
Gold Coast apartment owners warned of ‘COVID Schoolies’
Pressure builds with schoolies to go ahead unofficially
Defects/Cladding:
NSW will stop dodgy apartments from opening
NSW puts first four developers on notice
Commissioner’s lifeline on new-build defects
‘In limbo land’: Apartment owners in bind over flammable cladding fix
Sydney apartment buildings with high-risk flammable cladding have owners ‘living in fear’
Darwin property owner in legal limbo after buying $700K unit with roof that later leaked
Airbnb:
Teens who trashed Airbnb apartment cause thousands in damage, taunt owner
Warning as criminals exploit short term rentals
Pets:
Nonsense on both sides of the latest pet debate
When is it unreasonable to ban pets from apartment buildings?
General:
Eviction bans end for 8 million renters. Could this be the start of a housing disaster?
Sydney man awarded $20,600 over defamatory ‘peeping Tom’ emails
Carbon neutral apartments to deliver 50 per cent strata savings
Basement conversions rescue ageing block
Gold Coast development: QLD law causing havoc
Parties need to step in to stop major insurance disaster says KAP
Why self-financed upgrade could only happen in NSW
Melbourne apartment building fitted with vertical solar panels an ‘Australian first’
