This pandemic has helped condo managers to identify relevant skill gaps in relation to being prepared for the unexpected.

Careful planning and high and low-design cost options will quickly transform any curb-appeal project into improved real estate value.

A sustainability plan and budget should be made with the mindset of plan and prevent, instead of react and pivot.

Up until May 31, 2021, condominium corporations can hold virtual meetings and use electronic voting, without a bylaw.

Portfolio managers and supervising managers remain in the wilderness of the home office, strategizing, planning, and serving clients from the comfort of their home.

In some respects, hybrid meetings may actually be more complex than an exclusively virtual meeting or an in-person meeting.

Requisitions and the self-help remedy can be extremely complex, not to mention the litigation that may ensue.

In February, before the WHO declared a global pandemic, talk among the condo board at Palace Pier was of various news reports piling in.

Plugging fall-planted bulbs into the right design will illuminate them to their fullest and brightest potential in the spring landscape.

Condominiums need to be careful when they decide to chargeback costs to an owner and must ensure they have the legal right to do so before they start lien proceedings.

This expansion of the CAT’s jurisdiction into new issues should be noted by condominium corporation boards and managers alike.

Impacts of the hard insurance market are trickling into condominium corporations across Canada, challenging boards and managers in their wake.

While building codes and standards help regulate efficiency in new buildings, existing buildings have been operating with little oversight and, in fact, no insight at all into how energy and water was being used in our cities.

Designers and developers foresee a greater turn towards health and wellness in the condo design of tomorrow.

One of the most under addressed issues in aging condos is the fan coil unit. Residents often take an “out of sight, out of mind” approach.

Many reserve fund projects have not been able to proceed this year. Even now as construction has “opened up,” contractors have backlogs that will allow them to complete only some of the previously planned projects.

COVID-19 has also taught the importance of well-drafted comprehensive force majeure clauses and other standard contractual clauses, which should now be scrutinized more than ever.