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 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 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 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 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 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…