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Caught with unlawful development, is renting to a group the way to go ??? Hi everyone. I have a house in Melbournes eastern suburbs which I have turned into two x 2 bedroom flats without Council approval. Council caught me and required me to turn it back into a single dwelling ( no problem, I...

Planning reforms mean new homes in NSW could get approval from councils in just 10 days Read more: http://www.news.com.au/realestate/news/new-homes-to-get-the-green-light-in-just-10-days/story-fnd91nhy-1226621123968#ixzz2QaqDEuYF This sounds like very good news, except if you are a town...

Hi everone, its been a while since I've been here on SS. I have a question... I have two houses where I am the sole title-holder. I now wish to add my partner of 9 years to the titles. One house is in Canberra and one house is in Melbourne. Altogether, they are worth about $1.5m I am...

Hi all, does anyone here know the best place for me to start looking for a roof load of second-hand glazed terracotta roof tiles. I'm building on to my 1959 cream brick house in Melbourne's eastern suburbs and this type of tiles is often just disposed of these days when people re-roof in...

I get to work this monring and this greets me in my morning media monitor email....unbelievable !!! (this is an excerpt) Labor dons dunce cap in draft rent platform, Australian Financial Review, 01/12/2011, Robert Herley The Labor Party is poised to make rent control part of its national...

This is a worry. We REALLY need an national investors lobby and support system too. Here is a sample of the way this new group is thinking: Housing is unaffordable, Australian Financial Review, 20/09/2011, Ben Hurley "More than 60 housing, welfare and the community sector organisations...

I wonder what everyone else's experience is. With my IP in Melbourne (Vermont), its been rented for the last 7 years and it has a standard sort of garden, borders with shrubs and lawn but nothing fancy. I was comparing pics if it when I bought it in 2003 and some taken 3 weeks ago. There are a...

Hi everyone, I've just had my tenants "do a runner" owing me approx $2400 (they were over $900 in arrears and left a month before the lease ends, so add another $1400 to that). They used to fall behind all the time but then generally caught up. They also failed to tidy up the garden, despite...

This sounds like a kick-start to NSW, especially for new dwellings: "In what he described as an "Australian first", Mr Roozendaal announced the centrepiece of his budget: for the next two years from July 1, stamp duty would be cut to zero for people buying a home or apartment worth under...

I found this an interesting article. http://www.theage.com.au/national/call-for-reform-as-rental-society-looms-20100417-slj4.html I worry that if this scenario came to pass, goverments would want to get even more pro-tenant than they sadly already are. I think that tenants should have...

Hi everyone, Here is a link to the Sydney 2036 Discussion Paper just released by the NSW Department of Planning. It discusses, among many other things, the need for another 770,000 homes in Sydney by 2036. I hope it's useful to someone here :)...

This is good article and the comments are really interesting, sadly those not involved in property often hate developers. My comment is No 63 (not that they actually have numbers on then *sigh*)...

Hi does anyone here own a copy of the Feastudy software (its development feasability software)? I own a copy but feel like I need some help to learn more about how to use it. I'd like to know if anyone has used it on a development and had it work successfully for them. I'd be willing to give...

I just found a very interesting housing website for Americans... I apologise in advance for the length of the post but I found it really interesting (hehe, maybe its just my natural curiosity about life). The Americans (some sectors) certainly look to be in trouble and the attitude of the banks...

Hi all, For various reasons, I'm needing to buy a triple garage (mainly for storage perposes in the short term) to erect on my NSW rural IP (which is currently unoccupied as I am doing a total reno on it to make it habitable). Has anyone here had experience erecting a metal garage on a...

Hi, I just thought someone may be interested in this article in adaily newsletter I receive called "Architecture and Design" "Architects in Queensland will be able to bypass council assessment for single and duplex residential homes that meet 22 criteria, if the new Sustainable Planning Act...

Hi, I've just come back from a wonderful car trip through south west Victoria so I did a search on SS to see if anyone here had enquired about buying an IP or a development site in Warrnambool. Surprisingly There seem to be no posts about it and I have loved Warrnambool ever since I lived...

Hi, I'd love some advice about my next buy. I've been a bit quiet on the forum lately as I was away in Sydney for about 5 months (working on contract) with limited internet access but I'm back. I have an IP in Melbourne's eastern suburbs (Vermont) and plan to do an attached dual Occ there tis...

Hi, something interesting happened to me yesterday. I was viewing a townhouse that I was thinking of buying and I decided to make a first offer so the agent whipped out a form and had me fill it in and write the offer on it then he asked me for $1000 in order to just make the offer !!! I...

This story was on News.com.au. Its the story of what the owners of the house (where that little girl starved to death last year) want the Government to do with the house (Buy it and burn it down they say) http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24632066-2,00.html What do you think should...