25 Silver Gull Drive East Ballina

SP 61040 · Registered 6 September 1999 · 2 lots · Ballina · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026

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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 nuisance and behaviour
$31,900 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.

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.
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.

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.
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. 6 September 2006); non-structural ran to 6 September 2006. 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.
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 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 $8,900 per lot

Expected $31,900 per lot

Worst case $107,000 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
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.	$8,400	$28,900	$97,000
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	$8,900	$31,900	$107,000

Across all 2 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $63,800 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

1
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.
2
What is the capital works (sinking) fund balance, its adequacy ratio, and the 10-year plan?
3
Are any special levies raised, proposed, or scoped-but-not-yet-levied?
4
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 61040 was registered on 6 September 1999 in the Ballina council area and comprises 2 lots.

It is located at 25 Silver Gull Drive East Ballina.

Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.

nothing found matters order

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Litigation

Bowe v Bailey and The Owners - Strata Plan No 61040 [2025] NSWCATCD 201
Nuisance and behaviour NSWCATCD 1 December 2025

LAND LAW – Strata title – nuisance – hazard – tobacco smoke transmission between lots

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.

Bowe v Bailey and The Owners - Strata Plan No 61040 [2025] NSWCATCD 201
Repairs and common property · Applicant successful JA Rose, Senior Member

The Tribunal ordered the respondent lot owner to cease smoking tobacco products on courtyards and balconies of his lot and to prevent tobacco smoke from penetrating into the applicant's lot, finding the smoke drift constituted a nuisance and hazard in breach of statutory obligations and by-laws.
- Adam Bowe (lot owner)
- James Washington Bailey (lot owner)
- The Owners - Strata Plan No 61040 (owners corp)

Compared to East Ballina

In East Ballina, 0% of 228 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 1 matter is in line with the local average of 1 per litigated scheme.

The East Ballina 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	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.