We are getting into two of the topics that cause most angst in apartment living, this week: pets and buying property.

Firstly, we take a spin around the question of landlords in NSW no longer being able to ban renters’ pets for no good reason – and how that will affect the more than 50 per cent of apartment residents who are tenants.

This is a question I asked in the Sydney Morning Herald: Will our apartment blocks suddenly be awash with furry friends? 

Or will property investors – confronted by the other regulation changes, both recent and impending – decide “stuff this for a game of Monopoly” and sell up or switch to Airbnb and its ilk?

Then we look at a story Sue wrote for Domain (also in the SMH) about how she went looking to find a new flat for a temporarily overseas friend with the instruction to spend up $1million.

What’s it like flat hunting for a friend, knowing that if you have made the wrong suggestion that’s a million bucks worth of misery for them and you?

That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap?

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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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