High expectations: Are you a typical apartment buyer?
Let's be honest, we apartment dwellers like to think we're individuals. Sure, we live in a vertical village, but we're different to the people next door, two floors below, one…
Downsizing: A short guide to growing smaller
Whether you find yourselves empty nesters, newly single or hankering after the new baby boomer lifestyle of inner city café society, there are more than a few things to bear…
Tall storeys: Five funny tales of flat life
Over the last 10 or more years our friends at Flat Chat have uncovered just about every apartment living horror story you could ever wish to read. Here's list of five of…
Little things that are a big deal to renters
Something too many landlords, rental agents, strata managers and strata committees don’t get is that something that seems too minor for them to bother with can be a huge deal…
Five classic errors apartment newbies make
New to apartments or teetering on the brink of buying your first unit? Trusting that someone somewhere will make the right decisions for everyone? If only. You need to have your…
Notebooks of Note
If you're worried about Russian hackers and having your innermost thoughts stolen and put on Facebook, there's always the old school solution of writing your personal stuff in a notebook…
No sweat as cyclists score more showers at work
Once you have pumped up your tyres (again!) dodged the psycho motorists and then puffed and panted your way to work, what happens as soon as you get off your…
Bad for your body but good for your soul
By Isobel Williams Back in the day, everyone knew their neighbours. Neighbours were more than just the noisy people who lived on either side of your own apartment; they were…