98 Alfred Street South Milsons Point
SP 53457 · Registered 3 October 1996 · 116 lots · North Sydney · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026
Public record: 2 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.
- 2 tribunal or court matters, the most serious about repairs and common property
- $13,300 indicative cost exposure per lot, moderate 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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2 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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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
Moderate 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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Waterproofing and common-property repair A water or waterproofing dispute appears in this scheme's record. Indicative per-lot waterproofing and common-property repair levies (strata special-levy reporting). Scaled for: 1 matter; older scheme. | $2,100 | $9,600 | $31,600 |
Tribunal and legal costs 2 tribunal or court matters on the public record. Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). Scaled for: 2 matters. | $500 | $3,700 | $13,000 |
| Total per lot | $2,600 | $13,300 | $44,600 |
Across all 116 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $1,542,800 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 was the levy or contributions dispute about, and are any unfunded works coming?
Because we found a levy/contributions matter on record.
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What by-laws apply to pets, parking, short-stay letting, and renovations, and have any been disputed?
Because we found a by-law matter 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 2 today; we'll flag new matters here as they appear.
Building record
Strata plan SP 53457 was registered on 3 October 1996 in the North Sydney council area and comprises 116 lots.
It is located at 98 Alfred Street South Milsons Point.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- Khadivzad v The Owners – Strata Plan 53457 [2019] NSWSC 157
Repairs and common property NSWSC 26 February 2019
LAND LAW – strata title – validity of by-laws – by-law granted exclusive rights to certain lot owners to use parts of common property for car parking – by-law purportedly repealed in 1999 by special resolution of Owners Corporation – no written consent obtained from lot owners concerned prior to repealing the by-law as required by Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 (NSW) (“SSM Act”), s 52(1)(a) – Change of By-Laws recorded on title within two years – proceedings commenced in 2018 to challenge va
- Mabel Dorothea Fligg v The Owners Strata Plan 53457 [2012] NSWSC 230
Repairs and common property NSWSC 15 March 2012
REAL PROPERTY - Strata titles - owners corporation's duty to maintain common property - water penetrates plaintiff's apartment in and after episodes of rain - some remedial works undertaken - only partially effective - experts agree on further remedial work to be executed - whether defendant should pay the plaintiff's costs of the proceedings - whether defendant should pay certain of the plaintiff's out of pocket expenses - whether diminution in market value of plaintiff's apartment, if works no
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.
Compared to Milsons Point
In Milsons Point, 17% of 35 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 2 matters are in line with the local average of 2.3 per litigated scheme.
The Milsons 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 | 2 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.