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Judge rules that people who don’t want to sell in condo-like project can’t be forced out

April 10th, 2012 · 26 Comments

Hundreds of thousands of British Columbians now live in strata-titled housing. But, since it’s still a relatively new form, it’s not clear to all how those owners are jointly going to decide what to do as their buildings age.

I wrote about this issue in Vancouver magazine recently. Now, in one of the cases I referred to in that story, the judge has made a decision: Those who want to sell, even if they constitute about 50 per cent of the owners, can’t force the other half to sell if it’s going to create hardship. And, as the non-sellers at Cypress Gardens, argued persuasively to him, it would cause a hardship.

Here’s my story on the decision in today’s Globe. And here’s the actual decision, which I couldn’t quite pack all in with my 700 words.

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