388 Drake St, Vancouver · Downtown Vancouver
See the whole Downtown Vancouver risk profile →Governor's Tower has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 1 times (2020–2020), surfacing 4 distinct issues across 3 categories. The dominant theme is common property & use, 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.
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.
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.
Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.
The owners sought to modify a shared roof space with planters and other installations without obtaining proper strata consent. The tribunal determined the strata corporation reasonably demanded engineering review and a three-quarter resolution per statutory requirements. Claims for design expenses ($24,213) and legal costs ($2,408.50) were rejected.
Across 1,141 buildings, this manager has 304 tribunal cases on record — a dispute rate of 1.2 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.