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The future of apartment living

PAM WALKLEY REAL ESTATE

If strata title living is ever going to gain wide appeal for families, developers need to stop designing just for investors. “We need more three-bedroom apartments with corridors and storage for kids,” says Karen Stiles, executive director of the Owners Corporation Network. Better design to include light, cross ventilation and energy should be high on the agenda.

Sophie-May Kerr, a researcher at the UNSW City Futures Research Centre, agrees we have a long way to go to make apartment living appealing

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