In the same week that we get a new property services commissioner in NSW we hear that the first building construction certifier in NSW has been been sin-binned for a year (at least). What's the connection? With the new commish appointed to do to real estate agents and strata managers what David Chandler has been doing to the building industry, maybe he too will be kicking ass and taking names.Or will he? As we discuss in this week’s podcast, for all their faults (which are many and great), strata managers and RE agents haven’t been destroying people’s hopes, dreams and finances to anything approaching the extent and frequency of dodgy developers.So what will he be fixing that is seriously broken? In the absence of a clear answer, we’ve speculated (which is much more fun, anyway) about what most needs attention in property services.And we ask what the Real Estate Institute of NSW is going to do, having walked away from the advisory committee, now that one of their own has been given the top job.FYI: The question was answered here, a couple of days after we recorded the podcast. Talking of David Chandler, we discover who is the first certifier to be struck off under the NSW Building Commissioner’s “get tough” regime, and why they’ve taken away his clipboard.And we take a look at vertical retirement villages that allow oldies to go up in the world rather than suffer a steady decline in less-than-splendid isolation.TRANSCRIPT IN FULLJimmy 00:00We have a new Property Services Commissioner, in New South Wales.Sue 00:04Oh, yes?Jimmy 00:05Appointed late last week.Sue 00:07I don't know much about him, do you?Jimmy 00:09I know a little bit about him, because he sent me a press release.Sue 00:12Oh, good.Jimmy 00:13So, we'll be having a chat about that. We'll be talking about a certifier who has been delisted.Sue 00:20That's probably the first one for a long, long time, isn't it?Jimmy 00:22Yes. I know a couple of them have resigned, but you've found a story about someone who has actually been struck off. And, we've got one for the oldies; luxury retirement apartment blocks. The old vertical village, becomes a retirement vertical village.Sue 00:43And, they look pretty amazing!Jimmy 00:45 Do they?Sue 00:45 I can't wait to get old!Jimmy 00:49You don't want to rush that, trust me! Okay, I'm Jimmy Thomson, and I write the Flat Chat column for the Australian Financial Review.Sue 00:57And I'm Sue Williams and I write about property for Domain.Jimmy 01:00And this is the Flat Chat Wrap.[MUSIC]Sue 01:16So, who is the new Property Commissioner, and what will he or she do?Jimmy 01:20Good question! His name is John Minns. According to the press release we got from Fair Trading last week, he brings more than 25 years experience as a real estate business owner and agent. Most recently, he was managing director of Canberra-based Independent Property Group and is a previous director of the Academy of Real Estate Services, where he worked to improve professional development and training opportunities. That's according to the Right Honourable Kevin Anderson, who is the Fair Trading Minister. Our regulars will remember that a few weeks (or maybe a month or so ago), they anno
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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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