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Map showing Greek Grass aka concrete and uber sized Granny Flat built on the boundary
Chris isn’t leaving any skeletons in his closet after posting his three-bedroom waterfront townhouse for sale.
The home is located along Sydney’s Blackwattle Bay, where townhouses are worth upwards of $4 million.
“We’ve decided, let’s just throw the baby out with the bathwater, let’s just get rid of it,” Chris told A Current Affair. A Current Affair
Chris has listed his home for $999,999.
“We’ve decided, let’s just throw the baby out with the bathwater, let’s just get rid of it,” Chris told A Current Affair.
It only takes reading the sarcastic property description in the listing to understand why.
“BUY THE DREAM ... INHERIT THE NIGHTMARE,” Chris wrote.
“This isn’t just a home. It’s an experience. For nearly $4 million, we thought we’d purchased our forever home. Turns out we’d actually enrolled in an unlimited subscription to ... Strata - The Never Ending Story.”
Chris bought his dream home two years ago, but an ongoing dispute with the building’s Owners Corporation led him to list it for sale. A Current Affair
Chris bought his dream home two years ago, but an ongoing dispute with the building’s owners corporation led him to list it for sale.
“Our advice: forget checking the dishwasher, forget checking the paint, forget checking the roof,” Chris goes on to write.
“Ask for the meeting minutes, read them, every single one, because the biggest surprise in strata usually isn’t hidden behind the walls, it’s hidden in the paperwork.”
Chris says more than 6000 people have emailed or messaged him since the ad was posted, many offering more than $1 million.
“What they don’t understand and what I’ve tried to explain is: it’s not $1 million you’re paying,” Chris said.
“You’re paying that, and then there are all these levies.”
Chris claims a couple of his neighbours undertook unauthorised works on the property in 2017, but things went pear-shaped and now Chris and the other owners also have to foot the bill.
Sydney owner lists $4m home for under $1m amid strata agony. A Current Affair
A letter sent from City of Sydney Council to one of Chris’ neighbours detailed how allegedly unauthorised works on one of the properties – converting a courtyard into a room – were deemed “a breach of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act”. But the council determined “it would not be taking further action at present”.
“Council needs to have a mandate to actively be able to come and say, here’s the demolition order,” Chris said.
Statement from City of Sydney building surveyor:
I refer to an investigation currently being carried out by the City of Sydney in relation to unauthorised development at the subject property.
An inspection carried out on 20 December 2024 has confirmed that the matter (being unauthorised building works by enclosing the ground floor rear courtyard partially and converting that into a room) is a breach of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (The Act), insofar that, the development was carried out without a Development Consent (DA).
Council has determined that although it considered that works have been undertaken without any consent, Council will not be taking any further action in this matter at present.
This does not prohibit Council from taking any future action should further information be bought to our attention relating to this matter