18 Springfield Avenue Potts Point
SP 15404 · Registered 30 April 1980 · 39 lots · Sydney · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026
Public record: 1 tribunal matter, 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.
- 1 tribunal or court matter, the most serious about repairs and common property
- $35,500 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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1 litigation matter 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. 30 April 1987); non-structural ran to 30 April 1987. 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 1 tribunal or court matter on the public record. Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). | $500 | $3,000 | $10,000 |
| Total per lot | $9,300 | $35,500 | $122,400 |
Across all 39 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $1,384,500 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 1 today; we'll flag new matters here as they appear.
Building record
Strata plan SP 15404 was registered on 30 April 1980 in the Sydney council area and comprises 39 lots.
It is located at 18 Springfield Avenue Potts Point.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- McCullum v The Owners – Strata Plan No 15404; The Owners – Strata Plan No 15404 v McCullum [2025] NSWCATCD 210
Repairs and common property NSWCATCD 23 December 2025
REAL PROPERTY – STRATA MANAGEMENT – owners corporation’s strict duty to maintain and repair common property and compensate for damage to lot property -– compulsory strata manager – lot owners’ consent to common property rights by-law - Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) ss 106, 149, 232, 237
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.
- McCullum v The Owners – Strata Plan No 15404; The Owners – Strata Plan No 15404 v McCullum [2025] NSWCATCD 210 Repairs and common property · Applicant successful G K Burton SC, Senior Member
A compulsory strata manager (Network Strata Services Pty Ltd t/as Netstrata) was appointed for 12 months to assess expert reports on ceiling and floor defects in common property, order further reports as necessary, and engage contractors to undertake inspection and remedial works; the owners corporation's cross-application seeking the lot owners' consent to a common property rights by-law was dismissed.
- Hugh James McCullum (lot owner)
- Lissa Kristbjorg McCullum (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 15404 (owners corp)
Compared to Potts Point
In Potts Point, 9% of 162 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 1 matter is below the local average of 1.7 per litigated scheme.
The Potts Point 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 | 1 matter | 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
On top of the public record above, the deep report will add the scheme's minutes, financials, capital-works fund, and a defect inspection. We're building it. Leave your email and we'll tell you when it's ready.