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 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?…

Advocacy Planning for Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery

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.

News Releases BC REALTORS® Support BCFSA Interim Findings On Rising Strata Insurance

BCREA welcomes the BC Financial Services Authority’s interim findings on the unprecedented rise in strata insurance premiums and deductions…

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 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 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 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 New Era for Legally Speaking #404

After penning his final issue of his illustrious 26-year tenure as author of Legally Speaking last month, Gerry Neely has passed the torch…

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 Strata Property Act—Common Expenses, Issue Between Non-Sectioned Apartment and Townhome Units; Strata Property Act—Undisclosed Strata Council Conflict of Interest #392

A strata corporation incorporated in 1987 had 36 apartment-style units and eight townhome-style units…

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 Streamside Protection Regulation and Standard Logging Practices; Strata Property Act and the Cost of Arbitration #370

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…

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 Life Lease Housing and Seniors (continued) #352

There are several models for life lease housing other than the one referred to in Legally Speaking 351…

Legally Speaking Life Lease Housing and Seniors #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…

Legally Speaking Strata Corporation, Not an Insurer for Strata Owner; Management / Rental Pool Agreement – No Termination Date #341

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…

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 Indian Land Development and Sale, Introduction To #328

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…

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…