Property (Law)
The legal right to use someone else's land.
What is an easement?
This early 20th-century residential style features prominent brickwork, low-pitched roofs, and wide, deep verandas supported by heavy piers.
What is California Bungalow?
The long-running Channel 9 reality show where teams renovate derelict properties to sell them at a high-stakes televised auction.
What is The Block?
This state government division manages public parks, reserves, beaches, waterways, and leaseholds covering roughly 42% of New South Wales.
What is NSW Crown Lands?
A co-ownership arrangement where owners can have unequal shares and no right of survivorship.
What is tenancy in common?
The post-WWII residential style that championed raw, unpainted concrete, geometric forms, and a truth to materials, heavily seen in universities and civic centers.
What is Brutalism?
The 1997 classic movie where a Melbourne family takes a legal battle all the way to the High Court to stop the compulsory acquisition of their beloved home.
What is The Castle?
This Sydney-headquartered public corporation is the commercial land and property developer tasked by the state to deliver master-planned sustainable communities like Edmondson Park and Green Square.
What is Landcom?
The federal government body that must approve purchases of Australian real estate by foreign citizens or foreign-owned entities.
What is the FIRB (Foreign Investment Review Board)?
This Melbourne landmark features a complex, fractal-based geometric glass and steel facade designed by Lab Architecture Studio and Bates Smart.
What is Federation Square?
The fictional skyscraper—filmed at the real-life Fox Plaza in Los Angeles—that gets taken over by terrorists on Christmas Eve in Die Hard.
To house its vast network of classrooms, workshops, and facilities, TAFE NSW owns and operates approximately this many buildings state-wide (to the nearest hundred).
What is 1,800?
A legal contribution fee levied by local councils on developers to help fund public infrastructure necessitated by the new development.
What is a Section 7.11 / 7.12 Contribution?
Designed by Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects, this Sydney high-rise utilizes a massive motorized heliostat mirror system to direct sunlight into shadowed spaces.
What is One Central Park?
The hyper-stylised, pastel pink, multi-story open-concept house with no walls or doors featured in this smash-hit Greta Gerwig film.
What is the Barbie Dreamhouse?
This NSW government agency oversees NSW's environmental planning laws.
What is the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water?
The national environmental rating system used to measure and benchmark the operational energy, water, waste, and indoor environment efficiency of Australian buildings.
What is NABERS (National Australian Built Environment Rating System)?
The trailblazing architect who became the first registered female architect in New South Wales and designed several iconic 1930s functionalist residences.
Who is Florence Mary Taylor
Diane Keaton’s stunning, sun-bleached shingle-style beach house in Something's Gotta Give is located in this exclusive New York coastal enclave.
What is the Hamptons?
Under the Just Terms Act, this is the financial value of any advantage, in addition to market value, to the person entitled to compensation which is incidental to the person’s use of the land.
What is Special Value?