133 Goulburn Street Surry Hills
SP 61162 · Registered 22 October 1999 · 113 lots · Sydney · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026
Public record: 3 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.
- 3 tribunal or court matters, the most serious about costs and procedure
- Building Insurers' Guarantee Corporation is named at 3 schemes, a cross-scheme pattern
- $4,300 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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3 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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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
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 3 tribunal or court matters on the public record. Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). Scaled for: 3 matters. | $600 | $4,300 | $15,900 |
| Total per lot | $600 | $4,300 | $15,900 |
Across all 113 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $485,900 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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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 3 today; we'll flag new matters here as they appear.
Building record
Strata plan SP 61162 was registered on 22 October 1999 in the Sydney council area and comprises 113 lots.
It is located at 133 Goulburn Street Surry Hills.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- The Owners - Strata Plan No. 61162 v Lipman The Owners Strata Plan No 61162 v Building Insurer's Guarantee Corporation [2014] NSWSC 622
Costs and procedure NSWSC 23 May 2014
PROCEDURE - costs - departing from the general rule - general discretion as to costs - whether the court should "order otherwise" as to costs where plaintiff unsuccessful on several claims - application of Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 42.14 PROCEDURE - costs - costs of mediation - where mediation undertaken at consent direction of the Court - whether costs of mediation are costs in the proceedings PROCEDURE - costs - departing from the general rule - offers of compromise and Calder
- The Owners - Strata Plan No 61162 v Lipman; The Owners - Strata Plan No 61162 v Building Insurers' Guarantee Corporation [2014] NSWSC 482
Other NSWSC 24 March 2014
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION - Referees' Reports - adoption - whether referee took correct approach in reaching his determination - whether to adopt referee's report with variations PROCEDURE - Interest - Pre
- The Owners - Strata Plan No. 61162 v Andreones Pty Ltd [2009] NSWSC 1461
Costs and procedure NSWSC 13 November 2009
PROFESSIONS AND TRADES – lawyers – liens – whether the client should pay the solicitors professional and photocopying costs incurred after termination of the retainer – construction of retainer agreement – where there is no distinction to be drawn between this case and another case considering the same form of retainer
Companies named in these matters
- Building Insurers' Guarantee Corporation, named in litigation at 3 strata schemes
- Building Insurer's Guarantee Corporation
- Andreones Pty Ltd
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 Surry Hills
In Surry Hills, 5% of 216 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 3 matters are in line with the local average of 2.3 per litigated scheme.
The Surry Hills 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 | 3 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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