1-3 Holdsworth Street Merrylands

SP 72125 · Registered 16 February 2004 · 10 lots · Cumberland · 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 levies and contributions
$3,700 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.

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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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.
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 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 $500 per lot

Expected $3,700 per lot

Worst case $13,000 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
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	$500	$3,700	$13,000

Across all 10 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $37,000 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
What was the levy or contributions dispute about, and are any unfunded works coming?

Because we found a levy/contributions matter 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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Building record

Strata plan SP 72125 was registered on 16 February 2004 in the Cumberland council area and comprises 10 lots.

It is located at 1-3 Holdsworth Street Merrylands.

Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.

nothing found matters order

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Litigation

Bawa v The Owners-Strata Plan No 72125 No 2 [2025] NSWCATAP 211
Other NSWCATAP 29 August 2025

None
Bawa v The Owners-Strata Plan No 72125 [2025] NSWCATAP 104
Levies and contributions NSWCATAP 13 May 2025

LAND LAW -strata titles - dispute between lot owner and owners corporation about the amount of the lot owner’s contribution and payment of interest-claims by lot owner for orders under s 85 (8) and s 87 (1) of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW)-whether s 87 (1) gives power to the Tribunal to vary the single lot owner’s contribution due to reasons peculiar to lot owner - claim that strata manager should be removed. APPEALS – contention of bias not established - no appealable error shown

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.

Bawa v The Owners-Strata Plan No 72125 No 2 [2025] NSWCATAP 211
Levies and funds · Mixed P Durack SC, Senior Member R Perrignon

The appellant was ordered to pay 10% of the respondent's costs of the appeal up to and including the hearing on 28 November 2024, but the respondent's application for its costs of the primary proceedings was dismissed.
- Mohamed Mowjoon Atham Bawa (lot owner)
- The Owners-Strata Plan No 72125 (owners corp)
Bawa v The Owners-Strata Plan No 72125 [2025] NSWCATAP 104
Levies and funds · Mixed P Durack SC, Senior Member R Perrignon

The appeal was allowed in part; the costs order made by the Tribunal on 8 August 2024 was set aside and the Appeal Panel will determine the costs application itself, while the substantive claims under sections 85 and 237 of the Strata Schemes Management Act were dismissed.
- Mohamed Mowjoon Atham Bawa (lot owner)
- The Owners - Strata Plan No 72125 (owners corp)

Compared to Merrylands

In Merrylands, 1% of 311 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 2 matters are in line with the local average of 2 per litigated scheme.

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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.

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