188 Keefer Pl, Vancouver · Downtown Vancouver
See the whole Downtown Vancouver risk profile →Espana has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 2 times (2018–2018), surfacing 5 distinct issues across 3 categories. The dominant theme is governance & council conduct, and the highest-severity issue on record is rated high. Owners prevailed in 1 of 2 decisions; total awards on record: $6,519.
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.
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.
Water ingress, roof, and building-envelope failures are the most expensive problems a condo faces, and they’re what drive large special assessments. Structural cases on record are the strongest reason to commission an engineer’s review of the envelope.
Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.
The applicant obtained compensation for water intrusion from an upper strata unit that occurred across multiple incidents from 2014-2017. The respondent was held responsible for damages stemming from tenant misuse of shower facilities, though the tribunal granted $6,293.98 rather than the requested $14,374.58.
The strata corporation regained control of 11 underground parking spaces from a marina operator who claimed exclusive rights through a developer assignment. The tribunal determined the developer lacked authority to grant exclusive use of common property, and no valid limited common property designation existed.
Across 106 buildings, this manager has 47 tribunal cases on record — a dispute rate of 2.58 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.