197 Walker Street North Sydney
SP 84674 · Registered 6 December 2010 · 19 lots · North Sydney · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026
Public record: 4 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.
- 4 tribunal or court matters, the most serious about building defects
- $46,800 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.
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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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4 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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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 December 2017); non-structural ran to 6 December 2017. 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.
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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
Elevated 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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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: 4 matters, elevated. | $9,900 | $41,800 | $152,600 |
Tribunal and legal costs 4 tribunal or court matters on the public record. Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). Scaled for: 4 matters. | $600 | $5,000 | $18,900 |
| Total per lot | $10,500 | $46,800 | $171,500 |
Across all 19 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $889,200 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 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.
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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 4 today; we'll flag new matters here as they appear.
Building record
Strata plan SP 84674 was registered on 6 December 2010 in the North Sydney council area and comprises 19 lots.
It is located at 197 Walker Street North Sydney.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 v Pafburn Pty Ltd [2023] NSWCA 301
Building defects NSWCA 13 December 2023
APPEAL – leave to appeal – interlocutory order refusing to strike out defence – defence pleaded plaintiff’s claim apportionable – issue of general public importance – significant impact on course of trial TORT – duty of care – statutory duty for construction work – extension of duty to subsequent owners of land – duty non-delegable – whether claim is apportionable under Pt 4 of Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) – claim by owners corporation for defective works – Design and Building Practitioners Ac
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 v Pafburn Pty Ltd [2023] NSWSC 116
Building defects NSWSC 23 February 2023
CIVIL LIABILITY ACT — owners corporation sues builder and developer for building defects — breach of statutory duty imposed by s 37 Design and Building Practitioners Act — non-delegable duty by reason of s 39 Design and Building Practitioners Act — proportionate liability — apportionable claims — whether ss 5Q, 39(a) Civil Liability Act operate such that claim is not apportionable.
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 v Pafburn Pty Ltd (No 2) [2022] NSWSC 1002
Building defects NSWSC 27 July 2022
CIVIL PROCEDURE – amendment – pleadings – application for leave to file Amended Technology and Construction List Statement – where new building defects alleged – whether defendants prejudiced by proposed amendments CIVIL PROCEDURE – whether the proceedings should be dismissed as against the developer defendant – whether allegations of fact if proven capable of establishing that developer engaged in construction work for the purposes of the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (NSW)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 v Pafburn Pty Ltd [2022] NSWSC 659
Other NSWSC 24 May 2022
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION – Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (NSW) – proper construction of definition of “construction work” – proper construction of “otherwise having substantive control over the carrying out of any work” – proper construction of s 37(1) – whether “person” includes the “owner of the land in relation to which the construction work is carried out”
Companies named in these matters
Builders, developers, and contractors named opposite this scheme. A company appearing across many schemes is a pattern worth a closer look before you buy.
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.
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 v Pafburn Pty Ltd [2023] NSWCA 301 Building defects · Applicant successful Ward P, Adamson JA, Basten AJA
The Court allowed the appeal and struck out the builder's proportionate liability defences, holding that the non-delegable duty under section 37 of the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 is not subject to apportionment under Part 4 of the Civil Liability Act 2002.
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 (owners corp)
- Pafburn Pty Ltd (builder)
- Madarina Pty Limited (developer)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 v Pafburn Pty Ltd [2023] NSWSC 116 Building defects · Respondent successful Rees J
The application to summarily dismiss the defendants' proportionate liability defence was dismissed; the Court held that section 5Q of the Civil Liability Act does not apply to non-delegable duties imposed by statute, and therefore the proportionate liability provisions are available to the defendants.
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 (owners corp)
- Pafburn Pty Ltd (builder)
- Madarina Pty Ltd (developer)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 v Pafburn Pty Ltd (No 2) [2022] NSWSC 1002 Building defects · Procedural Stevenson J
Application to dismiss proceedings against the developer defendant refused and plaintiff granted leave to file amended pleading to pursue claim that the developer carried out construction work in breach of statutory duties under the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020.
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 (owners corp)
- Pafburn Pty Limited (builder)
- Madarina Pty Limited (developer)
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 v Pafburn Pty Ltd [2022] NSWSC 659 Building defects · Procedural Stevenson J
The Court decided that a person having substantive control over construction work includes the owner of the land, and that substantive control means having the ability to control how work is carried out rather than actually exercising such control; motions regarding amendment and dismissal were deferred pending further procedural steps.
- The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 (owners corp)
- Pafburn Pty Limited (builder)
- Madarina Pty Limited (developer)
Compared to North Sydney
In North Sydney, 4% of 177 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 4 matters are in line with the local average of 3 per litigated scheme.
The North Sydney 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 | 4 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.