by Fiona Touhill | Mar 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Reminder (assuming it is not extended for the 3rd time) By 29 April 2016 all vendors wanting to sell or lease their property must have the pool registered with the state government’s Pool Register and those documents must be attached to the sale contract or...
by Fiona Touhill | Feb 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
On 1 January 2016 the Department of Fair Trading launched “Rental Bonds Online”. This is a facility to enable payment of bonds for residentail rental properties online. Gone are the days of obtaining a cheque, completing a form, posting both to the...
by Fiona Touhill | Jan 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
Visitor parking or common property parking is the bugbear of most unit blocks. Whether it is owners or tenants parking in visitor’s car parking and using it like their own parking spot, or parking on common property blocking garages or allotted car spots, or...
by Fiona Touhill | Dec 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Even if you do not want to sell your unit to a developer – you may be out voted and forced to sell Terminate or Renew a strata scheme From July 2016, to terminate and renew a strata scheme (referred to as Collective Sale and Renewal), only 75% approval will be...
by Fiona Touhill | Nov 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
With a residential property boom comes the inevitable residential development boom of strata title apartments. You “buy off the plan” when you pay a deposit and agree to purchase most commonly a unit in a strata title complex that is not yet built or is in...
by Fiona Touhill | Oct 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
WorkCover has now identified 27 Local Council areas in NSW that are at risk of the loose-fill asbestos (commonly referred to as the Mr Fluffy houses). Currently the houses at risk are mostly in the southern and eastern regions of NSW AND specifically Ku-ring-gai,...
