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Posts tagged with “Strata Properties”
Legally Speaking Where There’s Smoke, There’s Problems: a Few Considerations for Licensees Regarding Second-hand Smoke #558 
Legally Speaking Prohibition on Rental and Age Restrictions in Strata Buildings #556 
REALTORS® need to be aware of the impact the changes in the Building and Strata Statutes Amendment Act, 2022 for existing owners, buyers, and sellers.
Legally Speaking Beyond Your Expertise: When to Recommend Clients Get Legal Advice #531 
What happens to licensees who don’t recommend legal advice on matters beyond their expertise?…
Open House The Podcast PODCAST: Episode 2 – The Changing Landscape of Strata Insurance in BC 
Featuring a conversation with Shawn Fehr, Chair of the Board of the Insurance Brokers Association of BC.
Legally Speaking Strata Termination Update #521 
A year ago in Legally Speaking No. 509, I described two Supreme Court of British Columbia cases that addressed whether a strata corporation must first pass an 80% vote…
Legally Speaking Strata Parking May Get Simpler #518
In its newest report (the “Report”), the British Columbia Law Institute’s formidable committee of strata experts (the “Committee”) recommends more changes to the Strata Property Act (the “Act”)…
Legally Speaking Pitfalls in Transactions Involving Strata Condominiums #516
A recent Civil Resolution Tribunal decision highlights some important practice points for licensees in transactions involving strata…
Legally Speaking Liability For Strata Insurance Deductibles #515
Many strata owners do not know they may be personally liable to reimburse their strata corporation for its insurance deductible…
Legally Speaking Strata Age Restriction Bylaws #512
Strata age restriction bylaws are alive and well…
Legally Speaking Strata Termination #509
Where strata owners choose to terminate their strata development, two recent cases clarify when a strata council might list the project…
Legally Speaking To Rent or Not To Rent #484
Under the Strata Property Act1 (Act), a strata corporation may pass by-laws prohibiting or restricting the rental of strata units…
Legally Speaking Leasehold Strata Parking and Storage #475
Strata developers often use long-term leases to generate revenue from the sale of leasehold interests in parking stalls and storage lockers. A recent case1 reminds licensees about the importance of the lease…
Legally Speaking Strata Update #472
Since late 2013, the provincial government has brought into force various changes affecting strata properties. It seems a good time to review these notable developments…
Legally Speaking Parking Stalls and Strata Units #464
Licensees often mistakenly misrepresent the parking included with a strata unit sale, as a result of relying upon the seller for that information…
Legally Speaking A Phased Developer Must Contribute to Common Facilities #454
Though many licensees are not aware of it, in a phased strata project the developer must contribute to the cost of common facilities until the final phase is deposited…
Legally Speaking Condo Document Alert #451
The majority of all new housing starts involve strata properties. In a dozen municipalities, strata properties now make up more than half of all taxable properties…
Legally Speaking Strata Property Act – Changes to Rental Restrictions Rules #436
Since its adoption, the Strata Property Act has permitted residential strata corporations to adopt rental restriction bylaws.
Legally Speaking A Developer Must Disclose All Amendments to a Disclosure Statement #431 
An anticipated result of the current economic situation has been in increase in litigation concerning condominium unit pre-sales…
Legally Speaking A Strata Council Member’s Liability #417
Many licensees own condominiums; some also serve on strata councils…
Legally Speaking Strata Corporation — Suit by Some Owners Against Strata Council Members Personally; Strata Corporation — Unequal Habitable Areas but Equal Payment of Common Expenses Not Significantly Unfair #400
A strata corporation may sue one or more owners as representative of all owners, except those who are being sued, on a matter affecting the common property…
Legally Speaking Townhome and Apartment-Style Strata Units – Significantly Unfair Allocation of Expenses and Section Creation #399
Section 164 of the Strata Property Act (SPA) gives the Supreme Court of BC the authority, upon application by a strata owner or tenant, “to prevent or remedy a significantly unfair action or threatened action by…
Legally Speaking Legally Speaking 371 – Hardwood Flooring Bylaws Revisited; Paragraphs 8 and 14 of the Contract of Purchase and Sale #374
The message some licensees took from the two cases discussed in Legally Speaking 371 was that a strata corporation can’t enforce a bylaw restricting the installation of hardwood floors…
Legally Speaking Strata Corporation Bylaws and Human Rights Code – Approval Requirement for Installation of Wood Flooring Unenforceable #371
A licensee’s client took title to a unit with a floating wood floor, in a strata corporation whose bylaws required strata council approval before installation…
Legally Speaking Strata Property Act Section 164 – Appeals for Relief Against Significantly Unfair Actions #353
Section 164 of the Strata Property Act gives a strata unit owner or tenant the right to challenge an action completed or threatened, or a decision of a strata council…
Legally Speaking A Judge’s Guide to Whim and Fancy, or Best Efforts Clauses; Seller Had to Have Actual Knowledge of Default, Not Deemed Knowledge of Agent, to Be Liable Under Contract; Note Re: Legally Speaking 332 #333
In one case, the conditional clause in a Contract of Purchase and Sale required the buyer to satisfy himself as to the tax implications of Canadian/USA/international law upon his purchase of Canadian property…
Legally Speaking Leaky Condo Repairs – Townhouse Owners Refused to Pay for Repairs to Apartment-Style Units #332
Reasons for Judgment were published on February 7, 2001, in the first case I have seen that examines the Strata Property Act (SPA) to settle a dispute as to whether the townhouse owners had to contribute to the cost…
Legally Speaking Strata Property Act, Continued #325
An owner-developer now has the opportunity until the first annual general meeting to amend the strata plan to designate parking stalls as limited common property for the use of strata lot owners and, in addition, to…
Legally Speaking Strata Property Act Regulations #324
BCREA published in 1999, a very useful cpe seminar manual, called Strata Property Law for REALTORS, on strata property law and in particular, the Strata Property Act which becomes law on July 1, 2000…
Legally Speaking Condominiums – Leaky – Court Disallowed Fines for Breach of Rental Bylaw; Owners Entitled to a Hearing #316
Two strata owners, who were faced with a rental bylaw limitation, rented their condominium to their adult children without seeking permission from the strata corporation.
Legally Speaking Retail Strata #305
The businesses in a retail shopping centre in Richmond were carried on by owners or tenants of strata lots in a strata corporation…
