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Pets in strata

New laws for pets in strata from 25 August 2021

New laws about the keeping of pets in strata schemes in NSW started on 25 August 2021. These laws recognise the changing nature of strata living and the increasing shift towards pet ownership. Under the new laws, owners corporations: can only refuse to allow an animal into the scheme if it unreasonably interferes with another…

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Building Defect Rectification

Building Defects Rectification

How To Guide Our industry partners at SCA (NSW) officially launched the ‘Strata Defects Rectification Guide’. The guide was made in collaboration with UNSW and the University of Technology Sydney . It was also supported by the building regulator and the Office of the Building Commissioner. It investigates and addresses the prevalence and occurrence of…

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Housing Values Continued To Rise In March – Conditions Expected To Cool Over Comings Months As Buyers And Sellers Wait For Confidence To Return

Author Credit: Tim Lawless (Core Logic) The trend in housing values remained positive throughout March, with the CoreLogic national hedonic index rising 0.7% over the month. Although housing values continued to rise, the second half of the month experienced a weakening in the growth trend as confidence slumped and social distancing policies took effect.  The…

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6 Strategies to Juggle Work and Young Kids At Home: It’s About Flexibility and Boundaries

Author: Ruchi Shina (The Conversation) It’s hard enough juggling a job with parenthood when you’ve got young kids. But what do you do when social-distancing policies mean you’ve all been sent home? This is the reality many families now face. Schools have been shut in Britain, France, Germany, South Korea and all but five US…

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Sydney, Canberra Rental Markets

Sydney, Canberra – Most Expensive Rental Markets

Author: Renee Mckeown (The Urban Developer) Rents surged 0.5 per cent higher over the month to January after record house price growth into the first quarter of 2020, according to Corelogic’s latest quarterly report. The national median rental value went up to $440 a week following the rise in property prices in June 2019, and…

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3D Printed Building

Dubai to 3D Print 25pc of Buildings by 2030

Author: Renee Mckeown (The Urban Developer) The first fully-operational 3D-printed building opened in Dubai. The labour cost of creating the office was cut in half compared to traditional building methods. The one-storey building on Sheikh Zayed Road was dwarfed by neighbouring buildings including the Burj Khalifa, officially the tallest building in the world at 163-storeys…

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