977 Mainland St, Vancouver · Downtown Vancouver
See the whole Downtown Vancouver risk profile →Yaletown Park 3 has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 3 times (2021–2023), surfacing 5 distinct issues across 3 categories. The dominant theme is water, envelope & structural, and the highest-severity issue on record is rated high. Owners prevailed in 1 of 3 decisions; total awards on record: $450.
Each category below explains what that pattern means for a buyer, with the building’s own decisions as evidence.
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.
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.
Deferred repairs and general upkeep. Minor on their own, but alongside structural cases they reinforce a picture of a building falling behind.
Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.
The owner of a townhouse-style strata lot pursued $889,456.79 in damages, alleging the strata corporation negligently handled common property repairs that led to water infiltration. The tribunal determined the strata corporation's three-year investigation and remediation process was reasonable, rejecting all damage claims.
A strata corporation conducted its 2021 annual general meeting using invalid proxy procedures that barred owners from attending or selecting proxies, breaching statutory requirements and COVID-19 orders. The tribunal voided the envelope repair resolution, mandated refunding special levies, and required a new properly conducted meeting.
A strata lot owner disputed a virtual annual general meeting conducted during the pandemic that limited proxy voting exclusively to council members, denying owners their right to select their own proxy representatives. The tribunal ruled these restrictions contravened strata legislation and invalidated a building envelope repair resolution, requiring levy refunds and a new vote on that matter.
Across 118 buildings, this manager has 86 tribunal cases on record — a dispute rate of 3.01 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.