Links to all the best strata and related industry news from June 2022.
QLD
West End Central Apartments residents still without power after February floods
What an interest rates hike means for Queensland’s property market
Brisbane City Council to hike rates on short-stay properties like airbnb to tackle rental crisis
Rent crisis: 87,000 properties ‘empty’, water’s on, noone’s home
Gold Coast council rejects rates hike for short-term rental properties
‘Vibrates through apartment’: Residents’ 4am city construction hell
South Stradbroke residents take ‘control back’ of embattled Couran Cove Island Resort
Gold Coast’s ‘bright future’ challenged ‘astronomical costs’ and stalled developments
Tenants lift lid on ‘broken system’ at Gold Coast renters community, Smith Collective
National
Insurance Council says cost of northern NSW and south-east Queensland floods now at $4.3 billion
Grenfell’s wake: Perth unit owners forced to pay $1m for cladding as builders fold
Mascot Towers owners say they’ve been forgotten three years on
‘Quick jumpstart’: NSW to spend $38m to speed up EV uptake
‘The prices are so much more’: how apartment dwellers get locked into bad power deals
Mascot Towers saga a sorry reminder to keep strata records
How Australia is dealing with Airbnb, Stayz in a housing crisis
Australia’s census asked about high-rise living for the first time — this is what it revealed
