184 Forbes Street Darlinghurst
SP 58068 · Registered 15 October 1998 · 302 lots · Sydney · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026
Public record: 6 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.
- 6 tribunal or court matters, the most serious about by-laws
- Fair Trading Administration Corporation is named at 5 schemes, a cross-scheme pattern
- $35,500 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.
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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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6 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. 15 October 2005); non-structural ran to 15 October 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
Fair Trading Administration Corporation is named in litigation at 5 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 | $29,200 | $98,300 |
Tribunal and legal costs 6 tribunal or court matters on the public record. Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). Scaled for: 6 matters. | $700 | $6,300 | $24,900 |
| Total per lot | $9,200 | $35,500 | $123,200 |
Across all 302 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $10,721,000 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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The building's builder is named in disputes at other schemes, is the original builder still solvent for a warranty claim?
Because Fair Trading Administration Corporation appears at 5 schemes.
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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 by-laws apply to pets, parking, short-stay letting, and renovations, and have any been disputed?
Because we found a by-law 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 6 today; we'll flag new matters here as they appear.
Building record
Strata plan SP 58068 was registered on 15 October 1998 in the Sydney council area and comprises 302 lots.
It is located at 184 Forbes Street Darlinghurst.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- Cooper v The Owners – Strata Plan No 58068 [2020] NSWCA 250
By-laws NSWCA 12 October 2020
LAND LAW – strata schemes – by-laws – scope of subject-matter – purposive limits to the power to make by-laws – Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW), s 136(1) LAND LAW – strata schemes – by-laws – restrictions on by-laws – requirement that by-law not be harsh, unconscionable or oppressive – whether by-law imposing blanket prohibition on keeping animals contravenes provision – Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW), s 139(1) STATUTORY INTERPRETATION – use of dictionaries – whether three wor
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 58068 v Cooper (Costs) [2020] NSWCATAP 198
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 29 September 2020
COSTS – s 60 of the Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 – special circumstances – statutory construction – complexity of proceedings – issue not previously decided by Appeal Panel – overruling of previous first instance decisions
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 58068 v Cooper [2020] NSWCATAP 96
By-laws NSWCATAP 27 May 2020
LAND LAW – Strata title - Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 ss 136, 139, 150 - By-laws – Power to make by-laws – By-law not to be harsh, unconscionable or oppressive – Whether by-law prohibiting the keeping of animals is harsh, unconscionable or oppressive – Proceedings for imposition of civil penalty – Jurisdiction of Appeal Panel in appeal against civil penalty decision
- Owners – Strata Plan No 58068 v/ats Cooper [2019] NSWCATCD 62
By-laws NSWCATCD 21 November 2019
Strata management – by-law excluding pets - refusal to amend or replace with new by-law - SSMA ss 134, 135, 136, 138, 139, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 153, 156, 157, 158, 159, 232; 1996 Regulation cll 35, 37, Sch 2, Sch 3.
- The Owners - Strata Plan 58068 v Fair Trading Administration Corporation [2009] NSWSC 850
Building defects NSWSC 26 August 2009
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS – home owners’ warranty insurance – date of commencement of work – whether statutory test of commencement is exclusive – limitation periods – whether notification of defects provided within time – statutory discretion to extend time – whether discretion arises – if discretion had arisen, whether it should have been exercised. - STRATA TITLES – management and control – awareness of defects – whether through owners’ corporation or proprietors.
- The Owners Strata Plan No. 58068 v Fair Trading Administration Corporation [2008] NSWSC 1023
Other NSWSC 26 September 2008
Separate question orders
Companies named in these matters
- Fair Trading Administration Corporation, named in litigation at 5 strata schemes
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 Darlinghurst
In Darlinghurst, 4% of 190 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 6 matters are well above the local average of 3 per litigated scheme.
The Darlinghurst 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 | 6 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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