251-263 Goulburn Street Surry Hills
SP 20211 · Registered 12 May 1983 · 134 lots · Sydney · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026
Public record: 5 tribunal matters, no building-work orders. 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 section 184 strata search, before you bid.
- 5 tribunal or court matters, the most serious about repairs and common property
- $38,100 indicative cost exposure per lot, elevated band
The public record is a pre-screen, not the strata report. Read on for the detail, then obtain a section 184 strata 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 section 184 strata 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 section 184 strata search before you bid.
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5 litigation matters 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.
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Water-ingress dispute on record
At least one matter touches water, ingress, or waterproofing, the single most common driver of strata special levies. Confirm whether it has been fully rectified.
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Building-defect dispute on record
A matter touches building defects or rectification work. Ask whether the work is funded and whether the builder's warranty still applies.
Statutory warranty: structural cover likely expired (est. 12 May 1990); non-structural ran to 12 May 1990. A single 7-year warranty period applies because the scheme was registered before the 1 February 2012 reform. Estimated from the registration date, not the completion date or building contract, so treat the dates as indicative.
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No recent annual reporting on the Strata Hub
We could not find a current annual return for this scheme on the NSW Strata Hub. That may just be a gap in the public data, but a non-reporting scheme can also signal a disengaged committee, ask for the last two AGM minutes.
Cost exposure
Elevated 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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Serious building-defect rectification A decision on this scheme was classified as a building-defect matter. Indicative per-lot serious-defect rectification levies (NSW Serious Defects in Residential Apartments research report, 2021; strata special-levy reporting). Scaled for: 1 matter; older scheme. | $8,800 | $32,500 | $112,400 |
Tribunal and legal costs 5 tribunal or court matters on the public record. Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). Scaled for: 5 matters. | $700 | $5,600 | $21,900 |
| Total per lot | $9,500 | $38,100 | $134,300 |
Across all 134 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $5,105,400 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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Has the water-ingress issue that went to the tribunal been fully rectified, and who paid for it?
Because we found a water/waterproofing dispute on record.
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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?
Ask about this building
Ask a plain-English question and we'll answer from our record: litigation, building-work orders, water and defect matters, the managing agent, and more.
Save keeps this scheme on your dashboard. Monitoring tracks the matter count from 5 today; we'll flag new matters here as they appear.
Building record
Strata plan SP 20211 was registered on 12 May 1983 in the Sydney council area and comprises 134 lots.
It is located at 251-263 Goulburn Street Surry Hills.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- Rosenthal v The Owners - Strata Plan No. 20211 [2021] NSWCATCD 64
Management and meetings NSWCATCD 15 February 2021
LAND LAW —Strata title — Renewal of Appeal Panel Work Orders — Compulsory Appointment of Strata Manager to implement Work Orders — Appointment of persons under General Order making powers to implement Work Orders
- Rosenthal v The Owners – Strata Plan No 20211 [2020] NSWCATAP 251
Other NSWCATAP 26 November 2020
JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS – Consent order – meaning of order – interim or final order – admissibility of extrinsic evidence ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – procedural fairness – order made without submissions from parties and without providing parties with an opportunity to be heard
- The Owners – Strata Plan 20211 v Rosenthal; Rosenthal v The Owners – Strata Plan SP 20211 [2019] NSWCATAP 49
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 6 March 2019
COSTS - whether special circumstances warranting an order for costs – whether refusal of offer of settlement constitutes special circumstances
- The Owners – Strata Plan SP20211 v Rosenthal; Rosenthal v The Owners – Strata Plan SP20211 [2018] NSWCATAP 243
Repairs and common property NSWCATAP 15 October 2018
APPEAL – strata scheme – obligation to maintain and repair common property – unauthorised structures – whether lot property or common property – interpretation of special by-laws – whether reversal of onus of proof - damages for breach of statutory duty COSTS – whether special circumstances
- Rosenthal v The Owners - SP 20211 [2017] NSWCATCD 80
Repairs and common property NSWCATCD 29 August 2017
Jurisdiction of Tribunal to award damages for breach of statutory duty, strictness of duty to repair and maintain, exculpations from duty to repair and maintain, burden of proof, definitions of lot property/common property
Decisions naming this scheme as a party, from NSW Caselaw (NCAT and the courts). 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.
Decisions, in detail
Read from each decision's own text: the parties and their roles, who presided, how it ended, and the money in play. Every row links to the source.
- Rosenthal v The Owners - Strata Plan No. 20211 [2021] NSWCATCD 64 Water ingress · Applicant successful C Paull, Senior Member
The Tribunal ordered the Owners Corporation to rectify and complete specified waterproofing and related defects affecting the applicants' penthouse lot, with work to commence by 16 March 2021 and be completed within 6 weeks, carried out by appropriately licensed and qualified persons.
- Thomas Rosenthal (lot owner)
- Joanne Rosenthal (lot owner)
- The Owners - Strata Plan No. 20211 (owners corp)
- Rosenthal v The Owners – Strata Plan No 20211 [2020] NSWCATAP 251 Repairs and common property · Applicant successful M Harrowell, Deputy President; G Blake AM SC, Senior Member
The appeal was allowed and orders 1 and 2 made on 28 August 2020 were set aside as the Tribunal had made an access order without affording the parties an opportunity to be heard, constituting an error of law.
- Thomas Rosenthal (lot owner)
- Jo-Anne Rosenthal (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 20211 (owners corp)
Compared to Surry Hills
In Surry Hills, 5% of 216 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 5 matters are well above the local average of 2.3 per litigated scheme.
The Surry Hills 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 | NSW Strata Hub, with geometry | Direct | Awaiting first run |
| Governance: AGM, managing agent, annual reporting | Not yet checked | Not matched | Not harvested here yet |
| Litigation: NCAT and courts | 5 matters | Direct | 28 June 2026 |
| Levies and financials | Not yet checked | Not matched | Not in the public record |
| Defects and building-work orders | Checked, none found | Direct | 28 June 2026 |
| 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
On top of the public record above, the deep report will add the scheme's minutes, financials, capital-works fund, and a defect inspection. We're building it. Leave your email and we'll tell you when it's ready.