780 Bourke Street Redfern

SP 54721 · Registered 8 May 1997 · 145 lots · Sydney · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026

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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 costs and procedure
$13,200 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.

Public record checked

Litigation, building-work orders, and governance for this scheme, the page you are on.
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Questions to ask
The specific questions this scheme's record raises, ready for the strata manager or your conveyancer.
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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.

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.
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.
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 exposure

An 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.

Good case $2,600 per lot

Expected $13,200 per lot

Worst case $44,400 per lot

Your lot's share versus an average lot 1.0×

Special levies are apportioned by unit entitlement. Set this from your contract; 1.0× is an average lot.

Exposure drivers, indicative per-lot ranges
Driver	Good	Expected	Worst
Waterproofing and common-property repair A decision on this scheme was classified as a water-ingress matter. Indicative per-lot waterproofing and common-property repair levies (strata special-levy reporting). Scaled for: 1 matter; older scheme.	$2,100	$9,500	$31,400
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	$13,200	$44,400

Across all 145 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $1,914,000 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

1
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.
2
What was the levy or contributions dispute about, and are any unfunded works coming?

Because we found a levy/contributions matter on record.
3
What is the capital works (sinking) fund balance, its adequacy ratio, and the 10-year plan?
4
Are any special levies raised, proposed, or scoped-but-not-yet-levied?
5
Can I see the last two years of AGM minutes, including any motions that were defeated?

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Building record

Strata plan SP 54721 was registered on 8 May 1997 in the Sydney council area and comprises 145 lots.

It is located at 780 Bourke Street Redfern.

Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.

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Litigation

Sultan v The Owners Strata Plan no 54721 (No 2) [2024] NSWCATAP 164
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 28 August 2024

COSTS- costs of the appeal- appellant successful in part and otherwise unsuccessful- no special circumstances warranting an award of costs.
Sultan v The Owners – Strata Plan no 54721 [2024] NSWCATAP 102
Costs and procedure NSWCATAP 3 June 2024

APPEAL - expert witness not available for cross examination despite a direction requiring attendance for cross examination - influence of that witness’ reports in considering what weight to be given to the opposing expert witness’ report - denial of procedural fairness - order for remittal - whether order for payment of money should be set aside - no question of law and no basis to grant leave to appeal

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.

Sultan v The Owners Strata Plan no 54721 (No 2) [2024] NSWCATAP 164
Levies and funds · Mixed S Westgarth, Deputy President; D Robertson, Senior Member

The applications of both parties for costs of the appeal were dismissed; the appellant succeeded in having a costs order set aside but was unsuccessful in appealing the monetary order for outstanding levies, and the Appeal Panel made no order for costs of the appeal.
- Samar Sultan (lot owner)
- The Owners Strata Plan no 54721 (owners corp)
Sultan v The Owners – Strata Plan no 54721 [2024] NSWCATAP 102
Water ingress · Mixed S Westgarth, Deputy President; D Robertson, Senior Member $15,106

The appeal regarding the monetary order for levies ($15,105.62) was dismissed and affirmed, but the appeal regarding the water ingress application was upheld and remitted for rehearing due to denial of procedural fairness when the respondent's expert witness was not available for cross-examination.
- Samar Sultan (lot owner)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No. 54721 (owners corp)

Compared to Redfern

In Redfern, 4% of 110 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 2 matters are in line with the local average of 2.5 per litigated scheme.

The Redfern dispute landscape →

Evidence ledger

Registry-backed record: matched to a scheme on the register by its plan number.

Evidence ledger: what was checked, what it found, how strong the match, and when it was last checked.
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	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

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