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NSW government’s short-term letting reforms met with mixed reception

2020-10-07T16:28:15+11:00

21 AUGUST 2019 It could be at least another six months before Airbnb is regulated in NSW as the state government released its short-term letting reforms for public comment more than a year after reform was first announced. Owners Corporation Network director Jane Hearn said the policy had been watered down. “We are shocked that a loophole has already been introduced,” Ms Hearn said. “The policy has been revised … it [...]

NSW government’s short-term letting reforms met with mixed reception2020-10-07T16:28:15+11:00

Australia’s building crisis fix will cost $6.2 billion: report

2020-10-07T16:29:17+11:00

20 AUGUST 2019 The cost of fixing the unfolding national building crisis, including widespread residential apartment block defects and the use of dangerous combustible cladding, could soar past $6.2 billion, according to a new economic analysis. More than 3400 residential unit blocks across the country have potentially flammable exterior cladding, according to a report commissioned by the construction union. Those high-rise blocks take in about 170,000 apartments. In NSW, hundreds of [...]

Australia’s building crisis fix will cost $6.2 billion: report2020-10-07T16:29:17+11:00

ACT Government needs to go after developers and toughen laws, say unit owners

2020-10-07T16:30:17+11:00

20 AUGUST 2019 The ACT Government was on the right track by putting property developers in its sights with a potential licensing scheme but it needed to go further if it was serious about fixing the building quality issue in the ACT, according to the ACT Owners Corporation Network. President Gary Petherbridge, commenting after Tuesday night’s Four Corners report Cracking Up that highlighted Canberra’s decade-old Elara apartments debacle, said the issues [...]

ACT Government needs to go after developers and toughen laws, say unit owners2020-10-07T16:30:17+11:00

NSW government scrambles for answers at building defects inquiry

2020-10-07T16:33:38+11:00

12 AUGUST 2019 The pain of NSW's building crisis was captured in Mascot Towers owner Vijay Vital's testimony at the inquiry, when he broke down describing the loss of his home. Mascot Towers was evacuated on June 14 due to cracks but engineers have yet to find the cause. "I stand here as a parent and my daughter asks me "when can I go home?" he said amid tears. "I have [...]

NSW government scrambles for answers at building defects inquiry2020-10-07T16:33:38+11:00

Channel 9 News – “Under Construction”

2020-10-07T16:34:31+11:00

6 AUGUST 2019 In 2018 the government announced "the biggest crackdown on dodgy certifiers in our State's history". In July 2019 the opposition asked what has happened? The Minister responded that there is a raft of practitioners with their fingerprints all over building defects. That's true. But OCN pointed to all the owners who are suffering terribly while government dallies. > Watch the channel 9 news clip at youtube.com Eddy Meyer

Channel 9 News – “Under Construction”2020-10-07T16:34:31+11:00

Mascot Towers Owners Hit $76,000 per Unit

2020-10-07T16:35:36+11:00

4 AUGUST 2019 Owners of apartments in the evacuated Mascot Towers building in Sydney are planning to sleep on the street to protest a damages bill of at least $76,000 per unit to fix defects, as questions continue on who will ultimately have to pay. The owners face a $10 million bill – half the initial building cost of $22 million – to fix cracks in the building's primary support structure, [...]

Mascot Towers Owners Hit $76,000 per Unit2020-10-07T16:35:36+11:00

Building certifiers leave a trail of chaos

2020-10-07T16:36:40+11:00

3 AUGUST 2019 A small group of private certifiers have signed off on 130 buildings with compliance problems, including allowing residents to move into one property that did not have toilets or taps fitted. The six offenders have been hit with 111 disciplinary actions since 2005, accounting for about a quarter of all such penalties. The Owners' Corporation Network, the peak body for apartment owners, said the repeat offending was further [...]

Building certifiers leave a trail of chaos2020-10-07T16:36:40+11:00

The hidden costs of Brisbane’s apartment correction

2020-10-08T11:49:35+11:00

1 AUGUST 2019 In total, Brisbane has foregone 2497 of the 4014 apartments approved in towers since 2009, said Don Smith, BCI's economics team leader. "From an 'impending oversupply' perspective out of a total of 4000 apartments that are being proposed, nearly 2500 have yet to meet appropriate technical and commercial criteria," Smith said.  "There is an element of self-regulation." The figures paint a reassuring macroeconomic picture of a market correcting, but [...]

The hidden costs of Brisbane’s apartment correction2020-10-08T11:49:35+11:00

Call for NSW building commissioner to enact acute 30-day plan

2020-10-08T11:50:48+11:00

1 AUGUST 2019 New NSW building commissioner David Chandler should strike an acute 30-day plan to help beleaguered homeowners who have been evacuated from their defective homes, ahead of larger plans to overhaul the industry, industry groups say. NSW appointed Mr Chandler, a building and construction expert and University of Western Sydney adjunct professor, as the state's first building commissioner on Thursday in an effort to rehabilitate the state's ailing building [...]

Call for NSW building commissioner to enact acute 30-day plan2020-10-08T11:50:48+11:00
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