There’s been a lot happening behind the scenes in Strataland over Easter. For a start, there’s the latest astonishing figures on booming rent rises across Australia.
Is it any surprise that the area with the lowest rent rises just happens to be the one with the only rent caps in the country? You awake, Chris Minns?
Speaking of whom, NSW has a new Fair Trading Minister, Anoulack Chanthivong, and with all respect to cultural differences, you have to wonder how long it will be before his name is distilled down to AnnaVong.
New Customer Services and Digital minister Jihad Dib has no such issues. We take a look at the qualities these high achievers bring to their jobs.
We wonder what Australian Resident Accommodation Managers Association (ARAMA) CEO Trevor Rawnsley has been putting in his tea. It’s one thing to think people in houses are more deserving than people in apartments, but to come out and say the former should be protected from Airbnb while the latter can cop what's coming to them is another thing altogether.
And finally we look at the house that collapsed in Condell Park, Sydney, and wonder if this will send shivers through the whole free-standing home industry. Those shivers can be very destructive.
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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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