Advocacy Understanding Recent Changes to Age Restrictions in Strata Corporations

Learn more about how recent changes to age-restrictions in strata corporations may affect you.

Legally Speaking Where There’s Smoke, There’s Problems: a Few Considerations for Licensees Regarding Second-hand Smoke #558

Second-hand smoke can be a source of conflict and aggravation in shared living spaces like strata buildings. Don’t let this issue go unnoticed and talk it through with your clients.

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 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 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 Modification of an Easement Agreement #385

When is an easement not an easement? “When the rights granted by it detract so substantially from the rights of the servient owner that it must be something other than an easement.”

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 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 Condominium Retroactive By-Law Unenforceable #263

A ground level strata unit had a patio on common property, which was reserved for the exclusive use of the owners of the unit…

Legally Speaking Reference: Condominiums – Noise and Vibration. A Nuisance #142

It’s probably just a coincidence that the manufacturers of stereo equipment are packing more noise into a smaller box at a time when more condominiums are being built, and more and more people are living separated…