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| Developments: National building costs rose 83% faster than CPI since Millennium Reed Construction Data figures highlights that delaying building maintenance increases building costs. Building inflation has run at a rate 83% greater than the rate of the consumer price index (CPI) over the seven years to December 2006, according to leading building information provider Reed Construction Data. Read this article (pdf 879KB) |
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Trends: Paint expert warns against delaying painting Brian Tompson, a respected independent paint consultant and managing director of Paint Solutions & Associates, has seen the damage caused by unnecessary delays in re-painting. Read this article to understand why delays can be cause more headaches from an expert. Read this article (pdf 567KB) |
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Issues: Leading strata academic warns of a multi-billion dollar sinking fund shortfall Professor Chris Guilding, from Griffith University believes anecdotal evidence suggests that there are many strata titled buildings where the accumulated sinking fund is lagging well behind what is needed. Does this mean more pressure on owners to adopt painful measures such as special levies to restore the building to an acceptable standard of infrastructure? Read this article (pdf 1.09MB) |
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- Transient population drives increased maintenance costs (pdf 463KB)
- Why delays end up costing owners more (pdf 888KB)
- Have your cake and eat it (pdf 970KB)
- Why there is nothing special about special levies (pdf 398KB)
- The issues with sinking funds (pdf 374KB)
- How to buy strata property effectively (pdf 417KB)
- Improve the value of your strata building (pdf 1.03MB)
- How to avoid the pitfalls of living in strata (pdf 664KB)