87-88 North Steyne Manly
SP 5403 · Registered 13 May 1971 · 24 lots · Northern Beaches · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026
Public record: 1 tribunal matter, 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.
- 1 tribunal or court matter, the most serious about unit entitlements
- $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 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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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.
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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
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 24 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $72,000 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 was the levy or contributions dispute about, and are any unfunded works coming?
Because we found a levy/contributions matter 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 1 today; we'll flag new matters here as they appear.
Building record
Strata plan SP 5403 was registered on 13 May 1971 in the Northern Beaches council area and comprises 24 lots.
It is located at 87-88 North Steyne Manly.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- The Owners – Strata Plan No. 5403 v; Sargents Developments Pty Ltd [2024] NSWCATCD 58
Unit entitlements NSWCATCD 15 October 2024
LAND LAW – Strata title – unit entitlements – valuation evidence not accepted – reallocation refused
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.
- The Owners – Strata Plan No. 5403 v; Sargents Developments Pty Ltd [2024] NSWCATCD 58 Levies and funds · Respondent successful Graham Ellis SC
The application to reallocate unit entitlements among 24 lots was dismissed because the applicant failed to establish the valuations of the lots in accordance with accepted valuation principles, a threshold requirement for such applications.
- The Owners – Strata Plan No. 5403 (owners corp)
- Sargents Developments Pty Ltd (lot owner)
- Ian Douglas Allen (lot owner)
- M K Murphie Holdings Pty Ltd (lot owner)
- Patience Laws (lot owner)
- Lorenz Pau Julien Trouillet (lot owner)
- Cameron McTaggart (lot owner)
- Andrew Pilcher Wines (lot owner)
- Nathan David Keevers (lot owner)
- Stephen Goerner (lot owner)
- Michelle Madeline Phibbs (lot owner)
- A McCoy (lot owner)
Compared to Manly
In Manly, 2% of 654 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 1 matter is in line with the local average of 1.6 per litigated scheme.
The Manly 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 | 1 matter | 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.