Category Archives: News for Strata/Condo owners

Soudabeh Zarrinkafsh has lived in the spacious basement of a North Vancouver townhouse, with a door that walks out onto a leafy backyard garden, for two years. And she doesn’t want to move. But the UBC Hospital employee may be … Continue reading →

The provincial government may introduce legislative changes to deal with racist covenants on land title records, but has stopped short of fully endorsing specific solutions proposed by the District of West Vancouver to remove historical language that outlawed some homes … Continue reading →

A senior in Deep Cove has won a $35,000 human rights award against his strata, and the right to install a costly tram to and from his hillside home to accommodate his health and mobility issues Gerald Testar and his … Continue reading →

A Vancouver strata has won a civil case brought by a condo owner who says his electrical vehicle charger was unfairly shut off. Milad Rostamkhani is an owner at the Shangri-La, at 1111 Alberni St., and alleged in a civil … Continue reading →

A chartered accountant who misled B.C.’s real estate regulator about his unlicensed property management business has been fined $100,000. According to the B.C. Financial Services Authority, the penalty against Yiu Keung (“Anthony”) Ng is the first of its kind since … Continue reading →

More than two years after finding out their building wasn’t built to code, dozens of condo owners in Surrey, B.C., are suing the developer and contractors behind the project. Homeowners with units in the building filed a lengthy lawsuit this … Continue reading →

Between 2001 and 2004 I was a member of a (BCLNA.com) Landscape Nursery Association committee (RIP Jane) attempting to work with the City of Vancouver and prevent the ban on leaf blowers. “Gas” Blowers were finally banned in the west … Continue reading →

A 6,000-sq.-ft. space on the second floor of a luxury condo building in Yaletown that had been the “exclusive” domain of the penthouse owner — Concord Pacific president and CEO Terry Hui — should be allowed to be enjoyed by … Continue reading →

Do you know the names of your neighbours and do they know yours? A B.C. condo owner went to court to force his strata council to hand over a list of names of all other strata lot owners in his … Continue reading →