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Learn more about how recent changes to age-restrictions in strata corporations may affect you.
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.
What happens to licensees who don’t recommend legal advice on matters beyond their expertise?…
With British Columbians being asked to head to the polls on October 24, BCREA is advocating with all parties to ensure that market housing affordability is a cornerstone of the province’s economic recovery plan.
BCREA welcomes the BC Financial Services Authority’s interim findings on the unprecedented rise in strata insurance premiums and deductions…
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…
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”)…
Many strata owners do not know they may be personally liable to reimburse their strata corporation for its insurance deductible…
Strata age restriction bylaws are alive and well…
Where strata owners choose to terminate their strata development, two recent cases clarify when a strata council might list the project…
Under the Strata Property Act1 (Act), a strata corporation may pass by-laws prohibiting or restricting the rental of strata units…
Discover some of the legal complexities and remedies available in BC for dealing with disruptive behavior in strata-titled properties.
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…
Since its adoption, the Strata Property Act has permitted residential strata corporations to adopt rental restriction bylaws.
After penning his final issue of his illustrious 26-year tenure as author of Legally Speaking last month, Gerry Neely has passed the torch…
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…
A strata corporation incorporated in 1987 had 36 apartment-style units and eight townhome-style units…
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…
A BC Supreme Court judge recently decided that a breach of the Streamside Protection Regulation was a breach of a seller’s agreement to “carry on all logging operations in a good and workmanlike manner and in…
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…
There are several models for life lease housing other than the one referred to in Legally Speaking 351…
Life lease is a term for an alternative residence and ownership arrangement for seniors. The term has been growing in BC over the past ten years because of its appeal to seniors…
Does a strata corporation have an absolute liability to a strata owner to pay for damages to an owner’s unit caused by an incident on the common property of the strata corporation…
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…
Anyone involved for the first time in the sale of an interest in reserve land will find little that resembles the more usual sale of fee simple land with which we are familiar…
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…
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…