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Vicinia

3440 W Broadway, Vancouver · Kitsilano

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Risk read
Elevated · Governance & council conduct
3
decisions
20202025
span
3
issues
0/3
owner wins

What this building’s record shows

Vicinia has been before the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal 3 times (20202025), surfacing 3 distinct issues across 3 categories. The dominant theme is governance & council conduct, and the highest-severity issue on record is rated elevated. Owners prevailed in 0 of 3 decisions; total awards on record: $113.

Each category below explains what that pattern means for a buyer, with the building’s own decisions as evidence.

Governance & council conduct

Elevated severity3 decisions

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.

Governance Issues · 3

Common property & use

Low severity2 decisions

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.

Parking Issues · 2

Financial disputes & fees

Elevated severity1 decision

Special assessments and fee disputes hit owners directly — a single levy can run tens of thousands per unit. A pattern here means the building’s finances have been contested. Ask for the reserve-fund study and the levy history before you offer.

Condo Fees · 1

The decisions

Every tribunal decision linked to this building, newest first.

2025 BCCRT 1719
2025-12-11Decided

The owner claimed the strata corporation handled parking space rental requests improperly and violated statutory procedures. The tribunal decision document was incomplete, ending abruptly during preliminary sections without revealing findings or resolutions.

2025-12-11Decided

A strata property resident filed a complaint alleging discriminatory conduct by the strata corporation in connection with parking space rental matters. The complainant claimed the strata failed to follow proper procedures under strata legislation and internal bylaws. The tribunal record is incomplete and lacks details about the final determination or any remedies ordered.

2020 BCCRT 593
2020-05-29Corporation upheld$113

The tenant disputed a $100 penalty imposed by the strata corporation for breaching moving regulations. Since the strata corporation withdrew the penalty prior to the hearing, rendering the matter resolved, the tribunal dismissed the case but required the strata corporation to pay half of the filing costs ($112.50). Additional harassment allegations were rejected as beyond the tribunal's authority.

Who runs this building

Firstservice Residential

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.