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News items about Condominium and Homeowner associations in Canada, compiled by CAN
- Huge condo bill taxes owners
Jennifer Shelley received an unpleasant surprise last month: a $28,000 bill towards repairs at her apartment complex. Shelley, who has owned her apartment at Penhorwood Place in the Lower Townsite for a year, said the bill came from the complex’s condo board, requesting the funds be paid as of Thursday. - A first: Condos outselling houses
New condominium sales in the Toronto area officially passed the 50 per cent mark for the first time, outselling new low-rise homes, according to November figures - Emboldened by a surging loonie, Canadians snap up U.S. homes
For moderate-income Canadians like Farley, the race is on to take advantage of the loonie, which in September reached parity with the U.S. dollar for the first time since 1976. Many are combing the Internet for anxious American home sellers and looking with an investor's eye at the condos they rented while on vacation in sunbelt states. - Peril lurks deep
It's widely believed that many more of the 4,000 (mostly residential) condo corporations in the GTA should be taken over, but the victims lack the financial resources to go to court. Unit owners suffer in obscurity as their buildings deteriorate around them. - Condo owners sue
Several condominium dwellers are suing a neighbour couple and the City of Edmonton after a fire allegedly caused by a cigarette damaged their homes and property. - Oversized lightbulb cited in condo fire
"There were no injuries, no fatalities.... The cause of the fire, after further investigation, has been determined to be from larger wattage bulbs being used," MacMullen said. "The enclosed area of the fixtures caused a much hotter area and the insulation broke down and the wires caught fire." - Soaring construction costs kill condos
VANCOUVER - Vancouver-based Eden Group has cancelled two city condominium projects, citing rising construction costs that would have created huge losses if they were to proceed - Province to investigate shoddy condo construction practices
Rockingham-Wentworth Coun. Debbie Hum says homeowners, especially condominium owners, will be happy to hear that the province is forming a steering committee of provincial and municipal employees to investigate construction practices. - Toronto the condo king of North America
Toronto is the busiest condominium market in North America and has already shattered previous yearly sales records despite rising prices. - Divorce stokes the condo boom
...most brokers - at least those who care to admit it - have long known: When married or common-law couples go their separate ways, the real estate market often benefits. - Condos
Condominium ownership calls for a collective and prudent administration of multiple unit dwellings - conflicting interests, in every imaginable shape and form, have led to a proliferation of condominium-related litigation. - Condo seekers set up weeklong camp to stake out bidding position
A line stretching about 100 people long has formed outside a Toronto condo office — a full week before the units are to be released for sale. - Revised condo plan revives wind debate
The condominium towers may be thinner and taller, but regional councillors for the Dartmouth, N.S., area still wonder how a proposed development might affect the paddling course on Lake Banook. - CA: Canada's flag causes local flap
For one couple in an Orangeville luxury condominium, according to information obtained by this paper, it's a time to come under fire for displaying the Canadian flag in their window "to Honour the Men and Women serving our Country in Afghanistan," - Condo crash victims planning lawsuit
The Richmond couple whose condo took a direct hit from an airplane is planning to sue for damages. - Condos slow to join green bandwagon
Builders of residential housing are doing it. So are owners of single-family homes. So why are condo owners among the last to jump on the energy-efficiency bandwagon? - Residents of condo hit by plane don't know when they can return
People forced out of their Richmond condos, after the building was hit by a plane on Friday, don't know when they will be allowed to return. 105 units are still off-limits. - Saving sunshine could soon be the law
In the Drake Landing Solar Community in the Alberta town of Okotoks, just south of Calgary, Sterling Homes inserted legal encumbrances into its purchase agreements, stipulating that the 52 new homeowners could not plant vegetation that shaded solar panels - Pilot dead after small plane crashes into B.C. highrise
A small plane flying fast and low crashed into a ninth-floor unit in a downtown Richmond high-rise condominium Friday afternoon, killing the male pilot and injuring two residents. - Condo and apartment dwellers lax about fire safety
A recent study on fire safety reveals that Canada’s condominium and apartment dwellers are not keeping up with Canadians living in houses when it comes to fire safety practices. - Condo sales drive housing starts to 29-year high
"The steaming hot condo market powered the volatile multiple units construction in all regions of the country," BMO Nesbitt Burns economist Robert Hogue said yesterday. - Service standards set for condo managers
The first 20 companies have been certified under a new set of standards for condominium managers in Ontario. - Leaky condo class action bid denied
The B.C. Supreme Court has denied the latest bid to have B.C.’s leaky condo disaster certified as class action lawsuit. - Damaged condo will stay empty for now
An emergency safety inspection yesterday morning of a three-storey condo building on Papineau Ave. has determined the need to remove the brick exterior to see if the building is still solid enough for habitation. - Crews still working on fire that destroyed 56 condo units
This morning the fire that gutted an almost-finished condo complex in New Westminster was still keeping crews busy. Fifty-six of the 231 units, part of the $26 million CopperStone development, have been destroyed - Leaky-condo legal battle rumbles on
It took no less than a B.C. Supreme Court ruling to allow them to retain an engineering firm to rehabilitate the buildings that suffered from water-penetration problems following their construction in 1994. - Developer reiterates green pledge
A Calgary developer's verbal promise to meet high environmental certification standards on a development it hopes to build along the riverbank will be tested in the coming weeks during negotiations with civic officials. - Councillor wants condo residents to take TTC
Toronto - Councillor Howard Moscoe is re-introducing a plan that would provide a free, one-year transit pass
