585 New South Head Road Rose Bay
SP 13631 · Registered 9 November 1978 · 8 lots · Woollahra · 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 costs and procedure
- $38,800 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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Water-ingress dispute on record
At least one matter touches water, ingress, or waterproofing, the single most common driver of strata special levies. Confirm whether it has been fully rectified.
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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. 9 November 1985); non-structural ran to 9 November 1985. 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: 1 matter; older scheme. | $8,800 | $32,500 | $112,400 |
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 | $38,800 | $137,300 |
Across all 8 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $310,400 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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Has the water-ingress issue that went to the tribunal been fully rectified, and who paid for it?
Because we found a water/waterproofing 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 13631 was registered on 9 November 1978 in the Woollahra council area and comprises 8 lots.
It is located at 585 New South Head Road Rose Bay.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 13631 v McGrath [2024] NSWCATCD 22
Costs and procedure NSWCATCD 18 January 2024
COSTS – Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Special circumstances
- McGrath v The Owners – Strata Plan No. 13631 [2022] NSWCATCD 60
Management and meetings NSWCATCD 5 May 2022
LAND LAW — Strata title — Strata managing agent — Compulsory appointment of strata managing agent
- McGrath v The Owners – Strata Plan No 13631 (No 2) [2021] NSWCATAP 215
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 14 July 2021
COSTS — no question of principle
- McGrath v The Owners – Strata Plan No 13631 [2021] NSWCATAP 167
Other NSWCATAP 4 June 2021
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW — particular administrative bodies — NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Tribunal not bound by the rules of evidence – Tribunal made order that Procedural Direction 3 apply to the proceedings – whether there was power to make order that Procedural Direction 3 apply to the proceedings when s 38(2) of the Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 provided that the Tribunal was not bound by the rules of evidence – held that there was power – although not bound by the rules o
- The Owners – Strata Plan No. 13631 v McGrath (No 2) [2017] NSWSC 163
Costs and procedure NSWSC 1 March 2017
COSTS – where Owners Corporation filed summons seeking judicial review of orders made by NCAT member – where parties agreed as to appropriate orders prior to hearing – whether offer made by Owners Corporation to settle proceedings was “mixed”, such that r 42.13A of the UCPR does not apply – finding that the offer was a mixed offer – exercise of general discretion – appropriate that each party bear its own costs
- The Owners - Strata Plan No. 13631 v McGrath & Anor (No 1) [2016] NSWSC 1929
Other NSWSC 21 October 2016
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – judicial review of
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 13631 v McGrath [2024] NSWCATCD 22 Water ingress · Mixed Senior Member D Robertson
Both the applicant's and first respondent's applications for costs were dismissed as special circumstances warranting a costs order were not established.
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 13631 (owners corp)
- Peter McGrath (lot owner)
- Kate Elizabeth Barrington (lot owner)
- McGrath v The Owners – Strata Plan No. 13631 [2022] NSWCATCD 60 Management and meetings · Respondent successful Senior Member M Deane
The application for compulsory appointment of a strata manager under s 237 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 was dismissed, as the Tribunal was not satisfied that the circumstances justified exercising its discretion to appoint a strata managing agent despite establishing jurisdiction based on failure to comply with prior tribunal orders.
- Peter McGrath (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No. 13631 (owners corp)
- McGrath v The Owners – Strata Plan No 13631 (No 2) [2021] NSWCATAP 215 Management and meetings · Respondent successful G Curtin SC, Senior Member J Lucy, Senior Member
The appeal was dismissed and the application for costs by the respondent was refused, with each party ordered to pay their own costs of the appeal.
- Peter McGrath (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 13631 (owners corp)
- McGrath v The Owners – Strata Plan No 13631 [2021] NSWCATAP 167 Repairs and common property · Respondent successful G Curtin SC, Senior Member J Lucy, Senior Member
The appeal was dismissed as the appellant failed on all grounds, upholding the Tribunal's refusal to admit expert evidence on mould due to non-compliance with Procedural Direction 3.
- Peter McGrath (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 13631 (owners corp)
Compared to Rose Bay
In Rose Bay, 2% of 426 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 6 matters are well above the local average of 2.3 per litigated scheme.
The Rose Bay 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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