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Did your apartment building suffer any earthquake damage? The committee needs to investigate

September 29th, 2021 - Tom Bacon

As if Melbourne hasn’t endured enough over the past 18 months. Pandemic, lockdown, anti-vax riots, losing the hosting rights to the AFL Grand Final, and now, an earthquake.

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Life is short - don’t let time (limitation periods) slip away …

September 2nd, 2021 - Tom Bacon

The Supreme Court of Victoria recently decided in a case involving a large residential building complex on St Kilda Rd to deny the joinder of individual lot owners to a building claim already commenced by the owners’ corporation (OC), on the basis they were out of time to do so.

Noisy neighbours

July 30th, 2021 - Tom Bacon

Living in an apartment building brings with it all forms of minor inconveniences.

Budget stamp duty concessions get sales rolling again

June 30th, 2021 - Tom Bacon

Budget stamp duty concessions get sales rolling again

Lower compliance costs for cladding

June 2nd, 2021 - Tom Bacon

If you know where to look (and who to look to) there are potential options for much lower compliance costs to rectify combustible cladding.

Owners’ corporations are like a box of chocolates - you never know what you’re going to get!

April 29th, 2021 - Tom Bacon

In the major newspapers, there seems to be a negative news story almost every week about the oversupply of apartments in Melbourne, or reasons why the capital values and rents for apartments will continue to fall, or the myriad of reasons why the cladding issues are being poorly managed by the state government and so on.

New research provides insight on the effects of flammable cladding on owners’ wellbeing

April 3rd, 2021 - Tom Bacon

Researchers at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University have published a new study on the links between combustible cladding and the effects on homeowners’ wellbeing.