NCAT decisions this week: strata and body corporate, motor vehicle dealers, house rentals and bonds (23 October to 29 October 2026)

5 decisions published by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal between 23 October to 29 October 2026, summarised in plain English. Each one links to the full published decision.

Strata and body corporate disputes

• Lot owner refused a stay of an order to remove an unauthorised garage door (NCAT, 2026)
  A lot owner appealed an NCAT order that let his strata scheme remove a double garage door built on common property without approval, and asked the Appeal Panel to put that order on hold until the appeal was heard. The Appeal Panel dismissed both of his stay applications, finding the appeal did not raise an arguable case and that the balance of convenience did not favour a pause.
• Appeal won: strata repair case sent back after late evidence left lot owners no time to prepare (NCAT, 2026)
  Two lot owners asked the tribunal to make their owners corporation carry out approved repairs to a common property water leak, and their application was dismissed after the owners corporation filed a witness statement only days before the hearing. On appeal, the tribunal found the lot owners had not been given a fair chance to deal with that late statement, allowed the appeal, and sent the case back to be heard again.
• Mould repair award of $10,635 set aside and sent back for a fresh hearing (NCAT, 2026)
  A lot owner won consent orders for mould work on his unit, then came back to the Tribunal and was awarded $10,635 when the work was not done in time. On appeal the Appeal Panel found the Tribunal had misread what the owners corporation had actually done, set the $10,635 order aside and sent the case back to a differently constituted Tribunal, while refusing the owner's own cross-appeal for lost rent and medical costs.

Motor vehicle dealers and car disputes

• Late appeal over a squeaking bumper refused: buyer kept to repair order, not a $4,000 payout (NCAT, 2026)
  A used Audi bought from a Sydney dealer developed a squeak in the rear bumper, and the Tribunal ordered the dealer to replace the bumper rather than pay money. The buyer, who lives in Melbourne, appealed more than two months late because he did not want to deliver the car to Sydney, and the Appeal Panel refused to extend time and dismissed the appeal.

House rentals, bonds and tenancy

• Owner’s eviction case fails because her husband, not her, was the landlord on the lease (NCAT, 2026)
  A property owner applied to NCAT to end a residential tenancy and get her property back so she could return it to short-term holiday letting, but the written tenancy agreement named her husband as the landlord. NCAT's Appeal Panel dismissed her appeal, agreeing that she was not "the landlord" under the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 (NSW) and so had no standing to bring the application.

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