1777 Bayshore Dr, Vancouver · Downtown Vancouver
See the whole Downtown Vancouver risk profile →Bayshore Garden has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 2 times (2025–2025), surfacing 5 distinct issues across 4 categories. The dominant theme is governance & council conduct, and the highest-severity issue on record is rated elevated. Owners prevailed in 1 of 2 decisions; total awards on record: $338.
Each category below explains what that pattern means for a buyer, with the building’s own decisions as evidence.
How the corporation is actually run — records access, meetings, bylaw enforcement, transparency. Repeated governance cases signal a contentious or opaque council, and that colours every decision made about your money and your building.
Special assessments and fee disputes hit owners directly — a single levy can run tens of thousands per unit. A pattern here means the building’s finances have been contested. Ask for the reserve-fund study and the levy history before you offer.
Electrical, HVAC, elevators, and fire safety. Disputes here point to aging or contested infrastructure — confirm the status of major systems and whether any fire-safety orders are outstanding.
Boundaries, parking, and renovation disputes — who controls and can alter shared space. Usually lower-stakes individually, but frequent cases show ongoing friction between owners and the board.
Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.
A strata corporation incorrectly removed $175,000 from contingency reserves for heat pump maintenance without securing the mandatory three-quarter owner vote, falsely citing emergency circumstances. The tribunal determined the repairs were not genuinely urgent and directed the strata to convene a meeting for special levy approval to restore the fund.
The strata corporation implemented a renovation project with an approved beige and brown design palette but made unauthorized changes to grey and black tones in common areas. The tribunal determined that while minor adjustments to furnishings were acceptable, the substantial colour modifications required proper owner authorization under strata legislation.
Across 98 buildings, this manager has 27 tribunal cases on record — a dispute rate of 1.6 per 100 units. A manager’s portfolio-wide rate is a signal of how they run buildings generally, beyond this one address.
Sourced from published tribunal decisions and analysed by PropTrust. Not legal advice. Verify with the corporation and a licensed professional before purchase.