191-195 Walker Street North Sydney
SP 35042 · Registered 4 July 1989 · 38 lots · North Sydney · 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 building defects
- $37,300 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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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. 4 July 1996); non-structural ran to 4 July 1996. 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 building-defect dispute appears in this scheme's record. 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 | $32,300 | $111,700 |
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 | $37,300 | $130,600 |
Across all 38 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $1,417,400 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?
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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 35042 was registered on 4 July 1989 in the North Sydney council area and comprises 38 lots.
It is located at 191-195 Walker Street North Sydney.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- The Owners SP 35042 v Seiwa Australia Pty Ltd [2007] NSWCA 272
Building defects NSWCA 4 October 2007
STRATA TITLES – Common property – Whether waterproof membrane under tiles on uncovered terrace is common property or property of lot owner – Whether lower boundary of cubic space of lot is upper surface of concrete slab or upper surface of tiles on top of slab – Where lower boundary not specified by registered strata plan – Where tiles laid prior to registration of strata plan – Strata Schemes (Freehold Development) Act 1973 ss 5(1), 5(2), 8(1) – DAMAGES – Breach of statutory duty – Loss of rent
- Seiwa Pty Ltd v Owners Strata Plan 35042 [2007] NSWSC 232
Other NSWSC 16 February 2007
JUDGMENTS & ORDERS – enforcement – where leave reserved to plaintiff to apply for substitution of monetary
- Seiwa Pty Ltd v Owners Strata Plan 35042 [2006] NSWSC 1472
Costs and procedure NSWSC 18 December 2006
PROCEDURE – Stay – stay pending appeal
- Seiwa Pty Ltd v Owners Strata Plan 35042 [2006] NSWSC 1157
Building defects NSWSC 6 November 2006
REAL PROPERTY – Strata and related titles and occupancy – owners corporation’s duty to maintain common property – whether steel uprights enclosing balcony common property – whether waterproofing membrane common property - whether private cause of action available – whether duty strict – whether contributory negligence available as defence – whether proceedings ought to have been brought in Consumer Trading & Tenancy Tribunal – Remedies – Damages - measure of damages – damages for diminution of v
Companies named in these matters
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.
Compared to North Sydney
In North Sydney, 4% of 177 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 4 matters are in line with the local average of 3 per litigated scheme.
The North Sydney 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.
Deep report · coming soon
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