13 Waine Street Surry Hills
SP 43251 · Registered 16 February 1993 · 177 lots · Sydney · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026
Public record: 3 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.
- 3 tribunal or court matters, the most serious about repairs and common property
- $4,300 indicative cost exposure per lot, low 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.
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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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3 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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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
Low 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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Tribunal and legal costs 3 tribunal or court matters on the public record. Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). Scaled for: 3 matters. | $600 | $4,300 | $15,900 |
| Total per lot | $600 | $4,300 | $15,900 |
Across all 177 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $761,100 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 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?
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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.
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Building record
Strata plan SP 43251 was registered on 16 February 1993 in the Sydney council area and comprises 177 lots.
It is located at 13 Waine Street Surry Hills.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- Galliott v The Owners – Strata Plan No 43251 [2026] NSWCATAP 119
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 13 April 2026
COSTS – costs application by the respondent – principles – withdrawal of appeal by the appellants – no hearing on the merits – costs application dismissed
- Galliott v The Owners – Strata Plan No. 43251 [2026] NSWCATCD 27
Repairs and common property NSWCATCD 2 February 2026
LAND LAW — Strata schemes – application for compulsory appointment of strata managing agent – s 237 Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 – burden and standard of proof – sufficiency of evidence – complaints and assertions not evidence – lack of contemporaneous or first‑hand proof – functioning of owners corporation – fire safety works and common property repair works – lay opinion – allegations of misconduct unsupported – discretion not enlivened
- Galliott v The Owners – Strata Plan No 43251 [2025] NSWCATCD 157
Costs and procedure NSWCATCD 13 October 2025
CIVIL PROCEDURE – Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Summons to give evidence – Application to set aside – Whether the applicants could establish a legitimate forensic purpose
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.
- Galliott v The Owners – Strata Plan No 43251 [2026] NSWCATAP 119 Management and meetings · Respondent successful G Blake AM SC, Principal Member
The Appeal Panel dismissed the owners corporation's costs application and ordered each party to pay their own costs of the appeal following the appellants' withdrawal of their appeal from the decision dismissing their claim for appointment of a compulsory strata manager.
- Jai Galliott (lot owner)
- Susie Elelman (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 43251 (owners corp)
- Cathie Galliott (lot owner)
- Michele Selwyn (lot owner)
- William Doyle (lot owner)
- Goldtex Pty Ltd (party)
- Galliott v The Owners – Strata Plan No. 43251 [2026] NSWCATCD 27 Management and meetings · Respondent successful Senior Member J Rose
The application for compulsory appointment of a strata managing agent was dismissed as the Tribunal was not satisfied on the balance of probabilities that any statutory ground under section 237(3) of the Strata Schemes Management Act had been established.
- Cathie Galliott (lot owner)
- Susie Elelman (lot owner)
- Jai Galliott (lot owner)
- Michele Selwyn (lot owner)
- William Doyle (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No. 43251 (owners corp)
- Goldtex Pty Ltd (party)
- Galliott v The Owners – Strata Plan No 43251 [2025] NSWCATCD 157 Costs and procedure · Respondent successful D Robertson, Principal Member
The summons issued to Joe Kalgovas requiring his attendance at the final hearing was set aside because the applicants failed to identify any legitimate forensic purpose for calling him as a witness and did not comply with directions to specify what evidence he would give.
- Cathie Galliott (lot owner)
- Susie Elelman (lot owner)
- Jai Galliott (lot owner)
- Michele Selwyn (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 43251 (owners corp)
- Joe Kalgovas (party)
Compared to Surry Hills
In Surry Hills, 5% of 216 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 3 matters are in line with the local average of 2.3 per litigated scheme.
The Surry Hills 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 | 3 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
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.