Bella Vista (2153) has a mix of older established apartment blocks and newer high-rise developments in the Hills Shire area. The strata health card below aggregates outstanding defect notices across strata schemes in the suburb, not individual buildings, giving you a sense of the scale of unresolved building problems. Before purchasing any unit, obtain the strata inspection report for the specific building.
Older apartment buildings in Bella Vista, particularly those built in the 1960s through 1980s, may have lower defect-notice counts not because they are in better condition but because they are not subject to the same post-Opal Tower scrutiny. Issues like aluminium cladding, asbestos, and dated electrical systems are more common in older stock and are captured differently in council records. Always commission a building inspection report for the physical condition of the property regardless of what the strata report shows.
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