With a surplus of $3.9 billion for 2016-17, the 2018 NSW State Budget had its winners and losers . The latter include seniors and rente...

The Tenants' Union of NSW has released the following statement about reported changes to the NSW Labor Party's Sustainable Communiti...

To keep, or not to keep a pet? Ever since we raised the issue in our contribution to the review of NSW renting laws, debate has raged about...

Kirsten Robb penned an interesting piece for Domain this week, outlining how real estate agents know when you're keeping a sneaky pet ....

The Daily Telegraph has published an article about a push from the left of NSW Labor for a ban on "no pets" policies in rentals. ...

If you've been paying attention to renting news this year you'll have seen a number of court and tribunal decisions about renting in...

Starting 30 November 2016, there will be some significant changes to the laws affecting tenants living in strata blocks. That's actually...

Yesterday we wrote about a petition going around highlighting the need for law reform regarding pets and renting. But what about the situat...

Earlier this month Premier Mike Baird announced the closure of the NSW greyhound racing industry, following a Special Commission report int...

Renting with pets is risky, you've got to be responsible in ways that others do not. Unlike tenants, home owners can't be evicted f...

The Animal Welfare League Australia is running a competition to find Australia's most pet friendly landlord. You can find out more and ...

'Landlords hit by glut of apartments'! That's a recent headline from the Fin Review ; we enjoyed reading it literally. As...

Some early signs of the NSW State Government's new strata laws are reported today in the SMH, including new model by-laws that allow pe...

We were just saying in Anti-Poverty Week how our housing system, in the absence of a genuine housing policy, enriches some while it impover...

If you're a pet-owner who rents in Sydney (or have done in the past 10 years), researchers at the University of Western Sydney would lik...

The NSW Companion Animals Taskforce was established by the State Government to advise on ways of reducing the appalling numbers of cats and...

As we know , Fair Trading NSW awaits comments on the draft Residential Tenancies Regulation 2010 . One of the things this Regulation will...

Brown Couch reader and legendary tenants advocate, Robert Mowbray, has dropped me a line in response to last week's post about the Land...