26 Belgrave Street Kogarah
SP 65870 · Registered 18 July 2001 · 39 lots · Georges River · 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 other
- $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.
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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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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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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 39 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $167,700 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 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.
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Building record
Strata plan SP 65870 was registered on 18 July 2001 in the Georges River council area and comprises 39 lots.
It is located at 26 Belgrave Street Kogarah.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- Ma v The Owners - Strata Plan No 65870 [2023] NSWCATCD 140
Management and meetings NSWCATCD 26 October 2023
LAND LAW — Strata schemes — Appointment of compulsory strata manager — Whether grounds for compulsory appointment are established — Which of two proposed compulsory strata managers should be appointed
- Lehner v The Owners – Strata Plan No 65870 [2023] NSWCATAP 102
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 12 April 2023
APPEAL – Consumer and Commercial Division - costs order – withdrawal of application at the end of final hearing – capitulation or surrender- whether special circumstances - whether misconduct or disentitling conduct – exercise of discretion – House v The King - costs of appeal
- Cuzeno Pty Limited v The Owners - Strata Plan 65870 [2013] NSWSC 1385
Other NSWSC 20 September 2013
REAL PROPERTY - easements - implied - non-derogation from grant - first rule in Wheeldon v Burrows - requirement that quasi-easement be used by the grantor prior to grant - where surrounding circumstances indicate parties did not intend easement to pass REAL PROPERTY - statutory easements - Conveyancing Act 1919 s 88K - whether easement reasonably necessary for the effective use of the land - whether all reasonable attempts made to obtain easement - whether court should refuse to grant easement
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.
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.
- Ma v The Owners - Strata Plan No 65870 [2023] NSWCATCD 140 Management and meetings · Mixed G Blake AM SC, Senior Member
Network Strata Services Pty Ltd was appointed as the strata managing agent for 12 months in preference to Professional Strata Management Group due to doubts about PSMG's competence based on prior failures, with no order as to costs.
- Ruihui Ma (lot owner)
- The Owners - Strata Plan No 65870 (owners corp)
- Michael Lehner (lot owner)
- Professional Strata Management Group (manager)
- Network Strata Services Pty Ltd (manager)
- Lehner v The Owners – Strata Plan No 65870 [2023] NSWCATAP 102 By-laws · Respondent successful K Rosser, Principal Member; M Gracie, Senior Member
The appeal against a costs order was dismissed; the Tribunal properly exercised its discretion in awarding costs to the respondent where the appellant withdrew his application late in the hearing after a fatal flaw in his case was exposed.
- Michael Lehner (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 65870 (owners corp)
Compared to Kogarah
In Kogarah, 1% of 300 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 Kogarah 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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