87 Hughes Street Cabramatta

Verdict

Cost exposure

• Serious building-defect rectification

  Indicative per-lot serious-defect rectification levies (NSW Serious Defects in Residential Apartments research report, 2021; strata special-levy reporting). Scaled for: 3 matters.

  $33,600

• Tribunal and legal costs

  Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). Scaled for: 4 matters.

  $5,000

Litigation · 4 matters

• The Owners – Strata Plan No 93543 v Zhang (No 4) [2025] NSWSC 1059

  Costs and procedure NSWSC 19 September 2025

  CIVIL PROCEDURE – default

• The Owners – Strata Plan No 93543 v Zhang (No 3) [2025] NSWSC 571

  Other NSWSC 4 June 2025

  BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION – Home Building Act 1989 (NSW) – statutory warranty – proceedings for breach – whether proceedings were commenced by plaintiff owners corporation within the warranty period – whether effect of interim occupation certificate was to cause warranty period to commence – whether interim occupation certificate authorised “the occupation and use of the whole of the building” – whether the two blocks of units should be seen as “separate buildings” that have separate completion

• The Owners – Strata Plan No 93543 v Zhang (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 360

  Costs and procedure NSWSC 9 April 2021

  COSTS – costs thrown away by the adjournment – whether such costs confined to costs incurred prior to the adjournment – whether such costs include costs not yet incurred but which would not have been incurred but for the adjournment

• The Owners – Strata Plan No 93543 v Zhang [2021] NSWSC 277

  Costs and procedure NSWSC 22 March 2021

  PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application to withdraw admissions – admission in List Response that plaintiff owners corporation was entitled to benefit of statutory warranties – further admissions that defendant entered into a contract with the builder of the strata development and that the builder entered into contracts with contractors on behalf of defendant – application to withdraw admissions made on first day of a 5 day hearing – where admissions said to have been made as a result of an error by

Decisions naming this scheme, from NSW Caselaw (NCAT and the courts). The quoted line beneath each is the decision's own catchwords; the topic tag is our grouping of those words. Whether a matter helped or hurt the scheme is not assessed here.

Statutory-warranty outlook

Structural cover

Likely expired · est. expiry 16 June 2022

Non-structural cover

Ran to 16 June 2018

NSW Home Building Act periods: 6 years for major or structural defects, 2 years for all others. Estimated from the registration date, not the completion date or building contract, so treat the dates as indicative.

Evidence ledger

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.