49/21 Darling Street, Barton
UP 355 · Registration date not recorded · 26 lots · Act · Australian Capital Territory checked 14 June 2026
Public record: 1 tribunal matter. A reasonable pre-screen, but not the full picture, the financials and minutes that decide the purchase are in the report, not the registers. Read it, and obtain a strata records search, before you bid.
- 1 tribunal or court matter, the most serious about repairs and common property
- $3,000 indicative cost exposure per lot, low band
The public record is a pre-screen, not the strata report. Read on for the detail, then obtain a strata records search before you bid.
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Public record checked
Litigation, building-work orders, and governance for this scheme, the page you are on.
- Read the strata report →
Paste the section 184 strata search or AGM minutes to see the fund balance and red flags the public registers can't. Obtain a strata records search if you do not have it yet.
- Questions to ask
The specific questions this scheme's record raises, ready for the strata manager or your conveyancer.
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Decide
Take the public record and the report findings to your conveyancer before you bid.
Risk read
What the public record shows for this scheme, read for a buyer. This is not the strata report, and a quiet record is not a guarantee: obtain a strata records search before you bid.
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1 litigation matter on record
Tribunal and court decisions naming this scheme as a party. A litigious building is more likely to be carrying unresolved disputes, defects, or levy fights.
Cost exposure
Low exposureAn indicative, itemised estimate of what one lot here could face, built only from this scheme's public-record signals. Indicative ranges, not this building's actual figures, and not financial advice.
Special levies are apportioned by unit entitlement. Set this from your contract; 1.0× is an average lot.
| Driver | Good | Expected | Worst |
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Tribunal and legal costs 1 tribunal or court matter on the public record. Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). | $500 | $3,000 | $10,000 |
| Total per lot | $500 | $3,000 | $10,000 |
Across all 26 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $78,000 building-wide, before any government contribution.
Estimate only. Figures are indicative ranges from public remediation programs and reporting, apportioned to one lot; they are not this building's costed works and not financial advice. Obtain the capital works fund balance, any special levy resolved or proposed, and a strata records search before you transact.
Questions to ask before you bid
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What is the capital works (sinking) fund balance, its adequacy ratio, and the 10-year plan?
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Are any special levies raised, proposed, or scoped-but-not-yet-levied?
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Can I see the last two years of AGM minutes, including any motions that were defeated?
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Building record
Strata plan UP 355 is on the register in the Act council area and comprises 26 lots.
It is located at 49/21 Darling Street, Barton.
Litigation
- DUNCAN v THE OWNERS - UNITS PLAN NO 355 (Unit Titles) [2026] ACAT 25
Repairs and common property ACAT 22 May 2026
UNIT TITLES – application seeking to give effect to a motion defeated at Annual General Meeting – where unsuccessful motion sought to amend rules of the units plan – merits review of the unsuccessful motion – where opposition focused on a proposed amendment to a single rule – maintenance of Class A and Class B units – whether opposition to the motion was unreasonable – whether motion, if it is to be given effect, should be given effect as put or amended – whether additional orders should be made Legislation cited: Land Titles (Unit Titles) Act 1970, ss 7, 27, 27A Legislation Act 2001, s 146 Unit Titles Act 2001, ss 10, 11, 17, 18 Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011, ss 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 24, 73, 80, 81, 83, 88, 89, 91, 106, 107, 108, 129, Schedule 3, cls 3.16, 3.20 Subordinate legislation cited: Unit Titles (Management) Regulation 2011, s 7A, Schedule 1
Decisions naming this scheme as a party, from ACAT via AustLII. The line beneath each matter is the decision's own catchwords, quoted; the topic tag is our grouping of those words and reads "Other" when they do not clearly fit, so you can always check it against the source. Every matter links to the full decision. Whether a matter helped or hurt the scheme is not assessed here.
Compared to Barton
In Barton, 20% of 5 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 1 matter is in line with the local average of 1 per litigated scheme.
The Barton dispute landscape →Evidence ledger
Registry-backed record: matched to a scheme on the register by its plan number.
| Checked | Found | Match | Last checked |
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| Registry and parcel | Land registry | Direct | Not harvested here yet |
| Governance: AGM, managing agent, annual reporting | Not yet checked | Not matched | Not harvested here yet |
| Litigation: NCAT and courts | 1 matter | Direct | Not harvested here yet |
| Levies and financials | Not yet checked | Not matched | Not in the public record |
| Defects and building-work orders | Outside current coverage | Not matched | Not harvested here yet |
| Fund balances, current levies, minutes, defects not yet litigated | Not on the public record | Not matched | Never in the public record |
What was checked, what it found, how strong the match, and when each source last ran. A source that has not run here yet reads as not checked, never as checked and clear. The unknowns the public registers structurally cannot show stay named, so silence above is never read as a clean bill.
Deep report · coming soon
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