defects

NSW Developer Hit With Fresh Orders to Fix Serious Defects

2022-05-25T17:59:58+10:00

A large Sydney developer has been ordered to fix serious defects in a 10-storey apartment building in the city’s southwest for the second time in three months. In the latest orders, the state’s building watchdog has warned of a serious defect in the construction of load-bearing walls in the Canterbury building’s basement car park which it found “did not support a ground floor slab”.  Read more:> HERE  

NSW Developer Hit With Fresh Orders to Fix Serious Defects2022-05-25T17:59:58+10:00

Sydney Apartment Investors Fear Debt Trap As Levies Skyrocket

2022-02-08T15:07:11+11:00

Investors from retirees to single mothers on low incomes fear losing their properties after their strata levies jumped from under $2000 per quarter to more than $10,000 for building repairs they had no say in approving. Bright and Duggan told the Herald it was appointed to do work that the owners’ corporation had “failed to undertake over many years with the highest priority of ensuring the building can be safely occupied”. Executive director [...]

Sydney Apartment Investors Fear Debt Trap As Levies Skyrocket2022-02-08T15:07:11+11:00

This Sydney strata nightmare started as a power struggle — then the police were called

2021-11-30T15:59:17+11:00

27 November 2021 It's the stuff of Sydney strata nightmares: a cracking building, an expensive repair bill and an owners' meeting that got so heated the police turned up. The drama started in the basement of the Vicinity apartment towers in Canterbury earlier this month, when owners couldn't agree over who should be put in charge of managing the affairs of the troubled apartment block. Read article, watch TV clip: > This [...]

This Sydney strata nightmare started as a power struggle — then the police were called2021-11-30T15:59:17+11:00

Cracks in the System

2021-11-30T16:09:48+11:00

18 November 2021 It's every home buyer's nightmare - moving into an apartment only to discover serious construction defects. Watch ABC 7.30 Report of 18/11/21: > https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2101H184S00 (0 – 8.0 min).

Cracks in the System2021-11-30T16:09:48+11:00

NSW apartments: New defects insurance scheme to protect off-the-plan buyers

2021-10-25T09:53:40+11:00

23 October 2021 Dodgy developers and bad builders who construct shoddy apartment towers that can lead to heartbreak and financial ruin for home-buyers are set to be driven out of NSW with a ground-breaking new defects insurance scheme. The DLI advisory panel comprises insurance experts, developers, financiers, strata bodies and the apartments consumer representative, the Owners Corporation Network (OCN). OCN executive officer Karen Stiles said members were excited by the news [...]

NSW apartments: New defects insurance scheme to protect off-the-plan buyers2021-10-25T09:53:40+11:00

NSW Home Building Act

2023-10-08T18:16:27+11:00

In NSW, the emphasis on increasingly tall and more complex apartment buildings to house a growing population demands that only the most suitably qualified professionals are permitted to undertake this work. However failures in the regulatory system and in the construction industry have led to systemic defects in high rise apartment buildings.  The protection of consumers through the delivery of high quality, sustainable homes is of paramount public importance.

NSW Home Building Act2023-10-08T18:16:27+11:00

NSW a trailblazer in ‘outing’ apartment defects

2021-10-25T09:46:28+11:00

22 October 2021 You’d be forgiven for thinking high-rise apartment blocks are crumbling like soggy Tim Tams all over NSW while the rest of Australia’s unit blocks are pristine monuments to better building practises. But, bad as things are in Sydney, it may look worse there than anywhere else because issues have been exposed and are being addressed. In NSW, the Owners Corporation Network has plugged away on the defects front for almost [...]

NSW a trailblazer in ‘outing’ apartment defects2021-10-25T09:46:28+11:00

Building defects in strata units robbing buyer’s future

2021-10-18T14:57:32+11:00

17 October 2021 Stephen Goddard, spokesperson for the Owners Corporation Network, discuss his recent SMH opinion piece about the dangers of building defects in residential strata schemes with Michael McLaren on Overnight with Michael McLaren. Mr Goddard wrote, ‘For some time now it has been a self-evident truth that new residential strata schemes can be plagued with building defects which are left for a new owners’ corporation to fix.’ ‘The defect [...]

Building defects in strata units robbing buyer’s future2021-10-18T14:57:32+11:00
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