989 Beatty St, Vancouver · Downtown Vancouver
See the whole Downtown Vancouver risk profile →Nova has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 1 times (2025–2025), surfacing 4 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 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.
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 sought refund of a $2,893.38 special levy payment, alleging the strata corporation failed to complete exterior painting on their unit during a building-wide project in 2021-2022. The tribunal ruled the strata corporation acted reasonably by engaging an independent consultant and obtaining photographic evidence of work completion, rejecting the claim.
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.