Condo Living

January 30, 2024 Published by Newfoundland and Labrador Chapter - By David Cumming

Overview of the Latest Update to the Condominium Information Program (NL-CIP) – Released Feb. 2023

From the CCI Newfoundland and Labrador Winter 2024 Condo Chronicle Newsletter

Over the spring of 2019, the Board of CCI-NL spent a considerable amount of time reviewing the information in the NL Registry of Condominiums located at 59 Elizabeth Av. in St. John’s. The objective of this project was to derive a more user friendly tool and make this resource conveniently available to all CCI-NL members. MS EXCEL was selected as the platform to store the information as it was assumed that most people would be familiar with this software. A *.PDF format option is also available on the CCI-NL web site.

This tool, entitled the NL - Condominium Information Program (NL-CIP), was released on May 5, 2019 in the ‘Local Topics’ section of our CCI-NL web page: (https://cci-newfoundland.ca/resources/cci-nl-local-topics).

The effort to create the NL-CIP was described in a CCI-NL Newsletter article in the Spring 2020 edition of the ‘Condo Chronicle’.

The condominium environment in Newfoundland and Labrador is constantly evolving and the most recent major update (V4.0 - released Feb. 2023) of the NL-CIP is described in this article.

This resource is thus a compilation of information available on each NL condominium as of February 2023. The following information is listed:

• Condominium Name (which under section 17 (2) (a) of the Condo Act shall end with the words "condominium corporation" )
• Condominium Registration Number
• Condominium Incorporation Date (YEAR-MM-DD)
• Number of Units
• Condominium Location
• Condominium Type (Residential, Commercial, Mixed etc.)
• Street View Available (Y/N) – included in the spreadsheet/*.PDF file is a procedure for viewing the 90% of the condominiums located on or close to a public road in Google Street View (Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View)

Notes of interest about the Condominium Property:

• There are nominally a total of 162 condominiums listed with 4,195 units on the EXCEL spreadsheet however the following condos, listed for completeness, are not currently active condos:
• Linden Court Condo Corp located at 110 and 111 Linden Place, St. John’s is an amalgamation of Pine Bud Condo Corp (26 units located at 110 Linden Place) and Linden Court Condo Corp (26 Units located at 111 Linden Place) amalgamated Aug 18, 1998 for a total of 52 residential apartment style units.
• Seascape Condo Corp (13 units (residential (attached townhouses)) located at 28 Lion’s Crescent, Conception Bay South (CBS) withdrew from the Condo Act Jan. 5, 2022 and transitioned into a Home Owners Association (HOA). See article in the “Winter 2023” issue of our Condo Chronicle newsletter.
• Vanguard Village Condo Corp (50 units (residential (attached bungalows)) located on Mifflin Place in Gander) withdrew from the Condo Act. Aug 7, 2017.
• Thus the actual number of condominium corporations registered in Newfoundland & Labrador is 159 with a total number of Units = 4,195 – 26 – 13 – 50 = 4,106.
• The largest condominium corporation in the province is 150 units - Brookfield Estates Condominium Corporation situated in the Lester St. area at the west end of St. John’s with Westfield Condominium Corp at 148 units located on and around Blackmarsh Rd. In St. John’s coming in a close second. Westfield is a recent amalgamation of four condominium corporations - amalgamated as of Jan. 1, 2018.
• The average condominium corporation has nominally 25.82 units.
• There are 6 condos with less than 3 Units. Note Bill 56, an amendment to the Condo Act effective in 2022, permitting the incorporation of a condominium with as few as 2 units.
• There are 2 POTLs where a POTL is a Parcel of Tied Land – both located in Mt. Pearl. A POTL is a property which carries with it interest in a Common Elements Condominium and has zero units. A POTL, once joined must be transferred or mortgaged with the property. Common examples of POTLs are: shared parking spaces, marinas, golf courses, or parks.

Condominium Types in NL:

• There are 28 Commercial Condos in NL.
• There are 5 mixed Residential/Commercial Condos in NL.
• There are 2 Recreational Condo Corp - both associated with Marble Mountain on the west coast.
• There are 2 POTLs (Parcels of Tied Land) in the province – both located in Mount Pearl.
• The remaining (122) are various configurations of Residential Condominiums – apartment style, townhouse, bungalow, duplex, triplex, quadplex etc. and ignore the 3 inactive Condo Corp noted above.

Numerical Breakdown with respect to number of units:

• There are 54 condos of 10 units or less including POTLs and condominiums comprised of less than 3 units.
• There are 47 condos with 11 to 25 units neglecting Seascape Condo Corp.
• There are 38 condos with 26 to 50 units neglecting Linden Court (located at 111 Linden Place) and Vanguard Condo Corp.
• There are 17 condos with 51 to 100 units.
• There are 3 condos with greater than 100 units.

Spatial (Location) Breakdown:

• As expected, the vast majority of condominiums are located on the Avalon Peninsula. A total of 142 condos are located on the Avalon Peninsula including St. John’s, Mount Pearl and Conception Bay South (CBS) and a few located in communities like Brigus, Torbay etc. neglecting Seascape Condo Corp and Linden Court (located at 111 Linden Place) Condo.
• There are 4 condominiums scattered around Central Newfoundland neglecting Vanguard Condo Corp.
• There are 11 condominiums located on the west coast centered around Corner Brook and Steady Brook (i.e. Marble Mountain).
• According to the records in the Registrar’s Office, there are 2 condominiums located in Wabush, Labrador.

There were a number of errors noted in the Condominium Registry records however the NL-CIP is provided to CCI-NL members as the most accurate NL Condominium data that could be compiled with the available information.

The following changes have been made to NL-CIP in 2023 in the first major update of this MS EXCEL based resource since it was launched on the CCI-NL Chapter web site in May 2019.

The changes include:

• Google Street View: Google has carried out Street View surveys over the last few years and every condo corp was reviewed and if the most recent Street View survey was an improvement, the hyperlink was replaced within the MS EXCEL file. If it was not possible to access Street View since the property was not located on or close to a public road, photos or a property web site was input to EXCEL Column ‘J’ if available;
• An attempt was made to add more detail to the street addresses (bungalows, townhouses, duplexes etc.) of residential condominium corporations. This effort often involved physically driving around and taking note of the street addresses to be included in the spreadsheet;
• If the condo property was the subject of an article in our CCI-NL Newsletter ‘Condo Chronicle’ such as a Feature Condo Article, this is now noted in Column ‘I’ of NL-CIP;
• A number of condo corporations have changed names since the resource was launched and an effort was made to arrange the list of condo corporations in alphabetical order;
• Recent amendments to the NL Condo Act that permits, for example, a condo corp with as few as 2 units - this is now reflected in NL-CIP;
• An attempt was made to assess new condo corporations incorporated since NL-CIP was launched in May 2019 using information listed on Companies and Deeds Online (CADO) to add to the list of existing condos listed in NL-CIP; Note CADO Ref: https://cado.eservices.gov.nl.ca/CADOInternet/Company/CompanyNameNumberSearch.aspx
• There were nine newly incorporated condominium properties, generally incorporated over the last few years, added to NL-CIP. Note that these recent additions were generally incorporated only a few years ago and thus only a static Realtor’s Photo is available rather than a Google Street View link.

1) Aberdeen Square Condominium Corporation
Condo # 85761
Incorporated: April 16, 2020
No. of Units = 7
Location: 145 Aberdeen Avenue, Building A, St. John’s

2) Beaumont Gardens Condominium Corporation
Condo No: 83978
Incorporated: May 15, 2019
No. of Units: 8
Location: 120 Bennett Av. St. John’s

3) Blackmarsh Road Commercial Condominium Corporation
Condo No. 88833
Incorporation Date: Oct 4, 2021
No of Units: 2
Location: 109-111 Blackmarsh Road

4) Flynn Lane Condominium Corporation
Condo No. 105, CADO Status: inactive
Incorporation Date: Aug 12, 2010 No of Units: 22
Location: 1-22 Flynn Lane, Wabush Labrador, NL

5) Kiwanis Commercial Condominium Corporation
Condo No. 87649
Incorporation Date: Mar. 30, 2021
No of Units: 6
Location: 55 Kiwanis St., St. John’s

6) Park Place West Condominium Corporation
Condo No. 83755
Incorporation Date: April 5, 2019
No of Units: 22
Location: 181 Hamilton Av., St. John’s

7) Vimy Commercial Condominium Corporation
Condo No: 87773
Incorporation Date: April 13, 2021
No of Units: 7
Location: 255 Majors Path, St. John’s

8) West Flats at Glendale Condominium Corporation
Condo No: 83937
Incorporation Date: May 7, 2019
No of Units: 8
Location: Civic #7, Glendale Court, Mount Pearl, NL

9) Octagon Pond Condo Corp.
Condo No. 85621
Incorporation Date: March 11, 2020
No of Units: 10
Location: 1 Octagon Heights, Paradise

Thus CCI-NL is committed to making an effort to provide the most up to date and accurate information on the condominium environment in Newfoundland & Labrador as of Feb. 2023.

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By David Cumming, CCI-NL