1438 Richards St, Vancouver · Downtown Vancouver
See the whole Downtown Vancouver risk profile →Azura 1 has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 1 times (2021–2021), surfacing 5 distinct issues across 4 categories. The dominant theme is governance & council conduct, and the highest-severity issue on record is rated high. Owners prevailed in 0 of 1 decisions; total awards on record: $0.
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.
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.
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.
Noise, pets, smoking, short-term rentals. Day-to-day quality-of-life conflict — lower financial stakes, but a useful window into how neighbours and the council handle disputes.
Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.
The tribunal declined to hear a strata matter due to its complexity, including excessive documentation exceeding 400 pieces of evidence, extensive written submissions, demands for complete legal file disclosure, and requested relief beyond the CRT's authority. The matter was deemed better suited for BC Supreme Court proceedings.
Across 152 buildings, this manager has 64 tribunal cases on record — a dispute rate of 2.97 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.