1a Eastbourne Road Darling Point
SP 2661 Darling Point Woollahra New South Wales
Verdict
Public record: 8 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.
Cost exposure
Indicative, itemised estimate of what one average 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.
Severe- $61,100
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: 5 matters, elevated; older scheme.
- $6,300
Tribunal and legal costs
Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). Scaled for: 8 matters.
Litigation · 8 matters
Selkirk v The Owners-Strata Plan No 2661; The Owners-Strata Plan No 2661 v Selkirk [2025] NSWCATAP 328
Repairs and common property NSWCATAP 15 April 2026
LAND LAW – strata title – common property – duty to repair – breach of duty – damages for breach of duty – causation – determination of cause of loss – action of lot owner altering or repairing common property – ss 106(5) and 232 Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW)
Selkirk v The Owners – Strata Plan No 2661 (No 3) [2026] NSWCATCD 50
Costs and procedure NSWCATCD 27 February 2026
COSTS — Party/Party — Applicant successful but failed on substantial issues — Awarded a proportion of costs COSTS — Party/Party — Relevance of misconduct by party to allocation of costs — Propounding of false document — Relevant to the extent that the misconduct increased the time taken at hearing or caused the other party to incur costs in responding
Selkirk v The Owners – Strata Plan No 2661 (No 2) [2025] NSWCATCD 70
Costs and procedure NSWCATCD 14 July 2025
CIVIL PROCEDURE – Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act s 41 – extension of time for compliance with orders – applicable principles
Selkirk v The Owners – Strata Plan No 2661 [2024] NSWCATCD 71
Building defects NSWCATCD 30 December 2024
LAND LAW – strata title – duties of owners corporation – duty to maintain and repair common property – claims for rectification works and damages by lot owner under Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW), s 106(5) and 232(1) following breach of duty – reasonably foreseeable losses suffered as a result of a contravention of s 106 – lot owner’s raising of justifiable objections to owners corporation’s proposed repair works not amounting to explicit refusal of access did not mean that losses sust
The Owners – Strata Plan No 2661 v Selkirk [2024] NSWSC 760
Building defects NSWSC 21 June 2024
LAND LAW – strata title – duties of owners corporation – duty to maintain and repair common property – claims for rectification works and damages by lot owner under Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW), s 106(5) and 232(1) following breach of duty – whether entitlement of owners corporation to apply for orders to inspect and perform works on lot owner’s property an answer to resistance by lot owner to accessing her property – whether open to owners corporation to rely on unreasonable conduct
Selkirk v The Owners - Strata Plan No 2661 [No 2] [2024] NSWCATAP 44
Repairs and common property NSWCATAP 27 March 2024
REAL PROPERTY – STRATA MANAGEMENT – strict duty of repair – onus of proof on scope and consequences of breach – causation and mitigation – measure and quantification of loss – Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) ss 106, 122, 124, 232. COSTS – costs orders on severable issues - application of s 104 Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) – quarantining of costs orders in favour of appellant – appropriate orders with success on primary matter appealed and remitted but not on a severable matt
Selkirk v The Owners - Strata Plan No 2661 [2024] NSWCATAP 17
Repairs and common property NSWCATAP 6 February 2024
REAL PROPERTY – STRATA MANAGEMENT – strict duty of repair – onus of proof on scope and consequences of breach – causation and mitigation – measure and quantification of loss – Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) ss 106, 122, 124, 232
Selkirk v The Owners – Strata Plan No. 2661 [2022] NSWSC 858
Costs and procedure NSWSC 29 June 2022
COSTS – dispute concerning a strata scheme – parties agree that proceedings should be transferred to NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal – whether order for costs should be made against plaintiff – plaintiff not shown to have acted unreasonably – appropriate to make no order as to costs
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 21 September 1974
- Non-structural cover
- Ran to 21 September 1974
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.
Evidence ledger
Registry-backed record: matched to a scheme on the register by its plan number.
| Checked | Found | Match | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 8 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.