The owner sought damages for water intrusion and mold remediation costs, alleging the strata corporation failed to properly maintain building envelope components. The tribunal awarded partial compensation for engineering costs related to one specific balcony repair issue while finding other maintenance delays justified.
Plaza Del Mar
1575 Beach Ave, Vancouver · West End
See the whole West End risk profile →What this building’s record shows
Plaza Del Mar has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 1 times (2024–2024), surfacing 8 distinct issues across 4 categories. The dominant theme is water, envelope & structural, and the highest-severity issue on record is rated high. Owners prevailed in 0 of 1 decisions; total awards on record: $8,720.
Each category below explains what that pattern means for a buyer, with the building’s own decisions as evidence.
Water, envelope & structural
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.
Common property & use
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.
Governance & council conduct
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.
Maintenance & upkeep
Deferred repairs and general upkeep. Minor on their own, but alongside structural cases they reinforce a picture of a building falling behind.
The decisions
Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.
Who runs this building
Across 170 buildings, this manager has 14 tribunal cases on record — a dispute rate of 1.34 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.