741 Hunter Street Newcastle West
SP 80412 · Registered 21 May 2008 · 109 lots · Newcastle · 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 repairs and common property
- $38,100 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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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. 21 May 2015); non-structural ran to 21 May 2015. 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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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 decision on this scheme was classified as a building-defect matter. Indicative per-lot serious-defect rectification levies (NSW Serious Defects in Residential Apartments research report, 2021; strata special-levy reporting). Scaled for: 2 matters. | $8,800 | $31,800 | $109,200 |
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 | $9,500 | $38,100 | $134,100 |
Across all 109 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $4,152,900 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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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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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 80412 was registered on 21 May 2008 in the Newcastle council area and comprises 109 lots.
It is located at 741 Hunter Street Newcastle West.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 80412 v Vickery [2021] NSWCATAP 98
Repairs and common property NSWCATAP 21 April 2021
STRATA TITLE – appeal from order of Tribunal awarding damages to a lot owner for breach of the statutory duty in s 106(1) of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 – duty to properly maintain and keep in a state of good and serviceable repair the common property and any personal property vested in the owners corporation STATUTORY INTERPRETATION – meaning of 2 year limitation period in s 106(5) of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015
- Vickery v The Owners – Strata Plan No 80412 [2020] NSWCA 284
Repairs and common property NSWCA 11 November 2020
STRATA TITLES – obligation of owners corporation to maintain common property in good repair – owners corporation breached obligation, causing damage to lot owner – NCAT authorised to make orders to “settle” a complaint or dispute about strata scheme – whether NCAT authorised to award damages to lot owner – consideration of nature of lot owner’s cause of action – consideration of conferral of jurisdiction and power upon NCAT – consideration of legislative history – consideration of interaction of
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 80412 v Vickery (Costs) [2020] NSWCATAP 48
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 17 March 2020
COSTS – costs on appeal – whether costs should be ordered in favour of successful party – whether public interest litigation – significance of any change in the law COSTS – costs at first instance – whether first instance costs order should be reversed following a successful appeal
- The Owners – Strata Plan No. 80412 v Vickery (No 2) [2019] NSWCATAP 97
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 23 April 2019
COSTS – rr 38 and 38A Civil and Administrative Tribunal Rules 2014 – discretion – party unsuccessful on application for leave to appeal – usual order – successful party entitled to costs
- The Owners – Strata Plan No. 80412 v Vickery [2019] NSWCATAP 71
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 28 March 2019
APPEALS – Leave to appeal an interlocutory decision – application for summary dismissal – principles applicable – issue raised on appeal not raised in proceedings at first instance – relevance of prospect if appeal to superior court in exercise of discretion to grant leave. SUPREME COURT – Referral of questions of law – refusal to refer.
- Owners Corporation SP 80412 v Vickery [2018] NSWCATAP 29
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 24 January 2018
Appeal and cross appeal from proceedings referred by adjudicator under section 164 Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 (NSW) (now repealed) to NCAT – Costs application
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 80412 v Vickery [2021] NSWCATAP 98 Repairs and common property · Applicant successful Armstrong J, President; Hennessy, ADCJ; T Simon, Principal Member
The appeal by the Owners Corporation was dismissed; the cause of action for breach of statutory duty to maintain common property did not accrue until the 2015 Act commenced on 30 November 2016, so Mr Vickery's application lodged in April 2018 was within the two-year limitation period.
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 80412 (owners corp)
- Graham John Vickery (lot owner)
- Vickery v The Owners – Strata Plan No 80412 [2020] NSWCA 284
The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and held that NCAT has jurisdiction and power to award damages for breach of section 106(5) of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015, remitting the matter to the Appeal Panel to determine outstanding issues.
- Graham John Vickery (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 80412 (owners corp)
Compared to Newcastle West
In Newcastle West, 6% of 31 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 6 matters are well above the local average of 3.5 per litigated scheme.
The Newcastle West 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.
Deep report · coming soon
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