{"id":878042,"date":"2026-09-03T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878042\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:12:12","slug":"bathla-collapse-homeowners-fury-over-unfinished-apartment-in-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878042\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathla collapse: Homeowner\u2019s fury over unfinished apartment in NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NSW<\/a> woman who says she\u2019s been waiting years for property<\/a> developer Bathla to finish her apartment says she\u2019s \u201cbetrayed\u201d and \u201cdevastated\u201d after the company\u2019s collapse left her in limbo – and still without her home.<\/p>\n

Janice Cahill told Today she had paid a deposit on her apartment-to-be in August 2024.<\/p>\n

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Janice Cahill says her apartment is still unfinished a year after she was meant to move in.\u00a0Today<\/p>\n

Today, she\u2019s still living in a rental waiting for her home to be finished.<\/p>\n

Photos shared with Today purportedly show the apartment as it was in May, unfinished and filled with building material.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u00a0can see some of the pictures of the\u00a0\u2018finished products\u2019 that we\u2019ve been\u00a0told – holes in walls, tiles missing,\u201d Cahill said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my apartment in May this\u00a0year when I came back from overseas\u00a0and, you know, we were supposed to\u00a0be in by September 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cahill claimed Bathla told her in April that \u201cprivate lenders\u201d had taken over the project and that it was fully funded.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, does that mean that we are\u00a0creditors of Baffler, or are we\u00a0okay? I, we don\u2019t know,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also claimed she\u2019d been told by Bathla that reports of tradies going unpaid were untrue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even have the words\u00a0to say how betrayed I feel and how\u00a0devastated about the lies that I\u2019ve\u00a0been told,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also questioned why the state government had not been monitoring the situation and urged Premier Chris Minns to speak with those caught in the fallout.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did you allow this\u00a0to happen? Where was your minister\u00a0for building, doing, allowing this?\u201d Cahill said.<\/p>\n

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Bathla went into administration last week.\u00a0Sitthixay Ditthavong<\/p>\n

Bathla went into administration last week with debts of about $3.6 billion.<\/p>\n

The company now faces potential liquidation, with administrators saying they could even struggle to pay Bathla\u2019s 350 staff.<\/p>\n

Unsecured creditors including tradies, subcontractors, consultants and homeowners all face potential monetary loss.<\/p>\n

Corporate Recovery Partners managing partner Larry Kaine told nine.com.au yesterday<\/a> that the administration could be \u201cAustralia\u2019s biggest\u201d and estimated it would have a \u201cconservative\u201d $20 billion impact on NSW construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NSW woman who says she\u2019s been waiting years for property developer Bathla to finish her apartment says…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-878042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}