2 Pinehill Avenue Double Bay
SP 30791 · Registered 11 April 1986 · 12 lots · Woollahra · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026
Public record: 4 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.
- 4 tribunal or court matters, the most serious about costs and procedure
- $37,500 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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4 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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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. 11 April 1993); non-structural ran to 11 April 1993. 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 4 tribunal or court matters on the public record. Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). Scaled for: 4 matters. | $600 | $5,000 | $18,900 |
| Total per lot | $9,400 | $37,500 | $131,300 |
Across all 12 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $450,000 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 building defects have been identified, is there a funded rectification plan, and does the builder's warranty still apply?
Because we found a building-defect 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 4 today; we'll flag new matters here as they appear.
Building record
Strata plan SP 30791 was registered on 11 April 1986 in the Woollahra council area and comprises 12 lots.
It is located at 2 Pinehill Avenue Double Bay.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- Owners of Strata Plan No 30791 v Southern Cross Constructions (ACT) Pty Ltd (in liquidation) (No 2) [2021] NSWCA 35
Costs and procedure NSWCA 18 March 2021
TORTS — negligence — apportionment of responsibility and damages — adjustment to reflect concurrent wrongdoing by entity not party to proceeding COSTS — party/party — general rule that costs follow the event — application of the rule and discretion — where appellant partially successful in appeal involving multiple parties — reduction commensurate with hearing time spent on successful aspects of appeal COSTS — party/party — orders when proceedings involve multiple parties on appeal — allegations
- Owners of Strata Plan No 30791 v Southern Cross Constructions (ACT) Pty Ltd (in liquidation) [2020] NSWCA 199
Other NSWCA 31 August 2020
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION — Negligence — Miscellaneous forms of negligent conduct — Right of support — Application of Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) s 177 and common law — Whether loss of support caused damage to adjoining property. TORTS — Negligence — Essentials of action for negligence — Whether there was a failure to take reasonable care — Whether any failure caused damage — Assessment of expert evidence. TORTS — Negligence — Proof of negligence — Res ipsa loquitur.
- The Owners – Strata Plan 30791 v Southern Cross Constructions (ACT) Pty Ltd (in liq) (No 2) [2019] NSWSC 440
Costs and procedure NSWSC 18 April 2019
TORTS – miscellaneous torts – right of support – application of s 177 of the Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) – whether loss of support caused damage to adjoining property NEGLIGENCE – essentials of action for negligence – whether there was a failure to take reasonable care – whether any failure caused damage NEGLIGENCE – apportionment of responsibility and damages – onus of proof CIVIL PROCEDURE – pleadings – amendment – joinder of plaintiffs who are otherwise statute barred
- The Owners-Strata Plan No. 30791 v Southern Cross Constructions (ACT) Pty Limited (In Liquidation) [2017] NSWSC 1660
Costs and procedure NSWSC 1 December 2017
CIVIL PROCEDURE – Referral to referee – Adoption of referee report – Whether report should be rejected for actual or apprehended bias – Whether referee failed to comply with rules of natural justice
Companies named in these matters
- Southern Cross Constructions (ACT) Pty Ltd (in liquidation)
- Southern Cross Constructions (ACT) Pty Ltd (in liq)
- Southern Cross Constructions (ACT) Pty Limited (In Liquidation)
Builders, developers, and contractors named opposite this scheme. A company appearing across many schemes is a pattern worth a closer look before you buy.
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.
- Owners of Strata Plan No 30791 v Southern Cross Constructions (ACT) Pty Ltd (in liquidation) (No 2) [2021] NSWCA 35 Building defects · Mixed Gleeson JA, McCallum JA, Emmett AJA
Appeal allowed in part against builder and insurer on negligence claim regarding excavation works; apportionment of responsibility determined with builder liable for portion of damage; costs ordered at 75% of first instance and 60% of appeal costs in favour of appellants.
- Owners of Strata Plan No 30791 (owners corp)
- Albert Bonansea and Ivana Bonansea (lot owner)
- Angus John Nicholas Brooks (lot owner)
- Julius Wolfgang (lot owner)
- Roslyn Bainton (lot owner)
- Michelle Anne Carruthers (lot owner)
- Alison Jean Pate (lot owner)
- Vanessa Claire Winley (lot owner)
- Southern Cross Constructions (ACT) Pty Ltd (builder)
- Allianz Australia Insurance Limited (insurer)
- Hughes Trueman Pty Ltd (contractor)
Compared to Double Bay
In Double Bay, 2% of 193 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 4 matters are well above the local average of 2 per litigated scheme.
The Double Bay 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 | 4 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.
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