197-209 Regent Street Redfern
SP 57504 · Registered 15 July 1998 · 114 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 building defects
- Building Insurers' Guarantee Corporation is named at 3 schemes, a cross-scheme pattern
- $34,900 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. 15 July 2005); non-structural ran to 15 July 2005. 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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Builder named across multiple schemes
Building Insurers' Guarantee Corporation is named in litigation at 3 strata schemes, a cross-scheme pattern worth checking before you buy.
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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. | $8,500 | $29,300 | $98,700 |
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 | $9,200 | $34,900 | $120,600 |
Across all 114 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $3,978,600 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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The building's builder is named in disputes at other schemes, is the original builder still solvent for a warranty claim?
Because Building Insurers' Guarantee Corporation appears at 3 schemes.
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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 57504 was registered on 15 July 1998 in the Sydney council area and comprises 114 lots.
It is located at 197-209 Regent Street Redfern.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- McDonough v The Owners Strata Plan No 57504 [2014] NSWSC 1708
Repairs and common property NSWSC 2 December 2014
PROCEDURE - inferior courts - New South Wales - District Court - transfer of proceedings - equitable jurisdiction of District Court - whether claim for equitable compensation for breach of trust within s 134(1)(e) and thus excluded from s 134(1)(h) - held, it is REAL PROPERTY - strata title - management and control - duty of owners corporation to maintain common property - trustee obligations of owners corporation - whether claim for equitable compensation for failure to maintain common property
- David and Edith Younger v The Owners- Strata Plan No 57504 [2014] NSWCATCD 142
Unit entitlements NSWCATCD 18 August 2014
Re-allocation of unit entitlement
- Building Insurers’ Guarantee Corporation v The Owners – Strata Plan No. 57504 [2010] NSWCA 23
Building defects NSWCA 15 March 2010
BUILDING CONTRACT - breach by builder - work not in conformity with plans & specifications - waterproofing system - whether system installed as effective as that specified - query whether issue one of mitigation with onus on builder. - BUILDING CONTRACT - breach by builder - whether demolition and reinstatement to produce compliance with contract reasonable - whether damages recoverable on that basis. - HOME BUILDING INSURANCE - breach of statutory implied warranties by builder – insurance - suc
- The Owners Strata Plan 57504 v Building Insurers' Guarantee Corporation [2008] NSWSC 1285
Costs and procedure NSWSC 21 November 2008
INTEREST - interest on damages - discretion - compensatory purpose - interest only on amounts paid - interest on costs - form of order.
- The Owners Strata Plan 57504 v Building Insurers' Guarantee Corporation [2008] NSWSC 1022
Building defects NSWSC 3 October 2008
INSURANCE – Home Building Act 1989 – statutory insurance – policy provided indemnity for loss where notification is made within six months of indemnified party becoming aware of such loss, but not after the expiry of the seven year period – whether policy complied with Act - successors in title entitled to benefits of statutory warranties. - DAMAGES – residential building contract – loss arising from construction not in accordance with contract, plans and specifications – rectification – remedia
Companies named in these matters
- Building Insurers' Guarantee Corporation, named in litigation at 3 strata schemes
- Building Insurers’ Guarantee Corporation
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 Redfern
In Redfern, 4% of 110 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 5 matters are well above the local average of 2.5 per litigated scheme.
The Redfern 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
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