Manitoba condo corporations - how many and where?

Article from Volume 13, Issue Number 2, 2025

Manitoba condo corporations - how many and where?

By Alan Forbes | Other articles by Alan Forbes | Feature

This article is a result of some questions posed by a member at our Annual General Meeting in September 2024 and our continuing efforts to identify all of Manitoba’s condominium corporations so we can better serve them. The member asked how many condominium corporations there are in the province and how many of them are members. The member suggested they should all be members; CCI Manitoba strongly agrees. After responding to the initial questions, the member asked why we hadn’t contacted all of the corporations with no prior CCI history and asked them to join.

How many Manitoba condominium corporations are there?

While all condominium corporations are registered with one of the six Land Titles Offices (LTOs), there does not seem to be a list of corporations available to the public that provides basic information such as street address or mailing address. There is a search capability online for the public through Teranet Manitoba, a service provider for the province, but it is very limited. You can search and order copies of the condominium corporation's survey plan, declaration and bylaw, but only if you know the title number, the registration number or the plan number.

Alternatively, you can register for an account and search by condominium corporation number, but for some corporations, the site address is missing or incorrect and the address for service usually has not been updated since the time of registration.

We have a list of condominium corporations but much data is missing. The list is probably a few months or so out of date with respect to the number of corporations covered by each of the six registration offices. Our best guess is that there are 1,500 condominium corporations in the provincial property registry comprising at least 50,000 units. That said, we don’t know how many are active and how many have been terminated.

Where are the condominium corporations located?

Seventy-four cities, towns and villages in the province have at least one condominium corporation registered, but of the total of 1,483 in the chart above, the locations of 108 corporations are unknown to us.

Here is the breakdown of condominium corporation locations.

City, Town or Village	Condo Corps	Number of Units
Altona	7	112
Arborg	1	0
Beaconia	1	5
Beausejour	6	104
Birtle	1	4
Blumenort	2	15
Brandon	144	1,974
Brokenhead	1	35
Carberry	1	0
Carman	10	115
Dauphin	2	13
Deloraine	2	2
Dugald	2	55
East Braintree	1	94
East St. Paul	3	264
Fairford	1	37
Gimli	10	531
Grand Pointe	2	107
Grunthal	1	8
Gull Lake	1	50
Headingley	1	36
Ile des Chenes	4	251
Killarney	11	16
Kleefeld	2	0
La Broquerie	1	14
La Salle	5	175
Lac du Bonnet	6	149
Landmark	3	48
Lockport	5	150
Lorette	6	103
MacGregor	1	0
Manigotagan	3	181
Melita	1	4
Minnedosa	4	24
Mitchell	5	56
Morden	22	450
Morris	1	10
Navin	1	7
Neepawa	7	78
Niverville	8	110
Oak Bluff	5	59
Oakbank	7	212
Onanole	7	464
Pinawa	2	81
Plum Coulee	4	36
Portage la Prairie	12	247
Powerview	1	9
Reinfeld	1	0
Roblin	1	0
Roland	1	12
Russell	1	6
Saint Adolphe	6	68
Saint Malo	1	7
Saint Pierre Jolys	1	14
Sanford	1	201
Selkirk	8	214
Shoal Lake	1	8
Souris	3	0
St. Georges	1	9
St. Joseph	1	2
Ste. Agathe	1	16
Ste. Anne	2	61
Steinbach	43	903
Stonewall	8	98
Stony Mountain	1	5
Swan River	11	78
Teulon	1	4
Thompson	3	378
Virden	7	18
Wawanesa	1	0
West St. Paul	2	39
Winkler	48	648
Winnipeg	885	41,377
Winnipeg Beach	1	26

What do we know about these condominium corporations?

We know about some of these condominium corporations if they are current or lapsed members of CCI Manitoba. For most, though, we don’t have much to go on besides a street address and possibly a unit count. As well, for many corporations in rural municipalities without a Canada Post mailing address, we probably know only the town or village where they’re located.

For all corporations other than our current members, we have no contact details or names of directors and we don’t know if they are self managed or professionally managed. This makes it difficult for our advocacy efforts to keep all corporations informed.

Many small condominium corporations are self managed, while most large corporations are professionally managed. Thanks to the many property managers who are CCI members, we tend to have more of the larger condominium corporations as members. This is reflected in the chart below.

More than half of the condominium corporations for which we have limited information have a maximum of 23 units. Since many of them are unlikely to have a property manager, they are unlikely to know about CCI and the services we provide. Clearly, we have a marketing challenge to get our name out there.

What have we learned?

We have spent hundreds of hours building up our list of condominiums. Some information came from our CCI membership database, some by way of our contacts in the industry, some from visiting show homes and open houses and some from various publicly accessible sources, such as the City of Winnipeg’s Condominium Sales Information.

By the way, if anybody knows of a similar source for municipalities outside of Winnipeg, please let us know. Extensive use of Google Maps and Canada Post’s postal code lookup tool were used to verify or find some of the data.

Lastly, obtaining an account with the LTOs helped fill in many of the gaps and alerted us to the fact that many corporations on our list no longer exist — the condo corporations have been terminated.

What would we like to know?

Basically, we would like to know as much as possible, so we can better understand condo corporations’ needs and better tailor our service offerings. Bare-land condos have different issues and concerns from low-rise standard (apartment style) condos and low-rise condos have different issues and concerns from high rises.

What about corporations that have both bare-land and standard units? Do the issues and concerns change if the condos are commercial rather than residential or a combination of both?

As a minimum, we would like to know the following for all condo corporations in the province:

The condo corporation’s name and/or identifier
Its street address and city, town or village
Addresses for service and postal code
Whether it’s self-managed or professionally managed
Whether it’s active or has been terminated
Whether it’s residential, commercial or mixed
Whether it’s bare land or standard or mixed
And, most importantly, that the information we look up online at the LTO is up to date, complete and accurate.

If someone from the pertinent provincial department is reading this, we would be more than happy to work with you to put together such a list for our joint benefit.

Alan Forbes owns and lives in a condo and is a director of his condo corporation. He also is a director of CCI Manitoba, its vice-president and the chair of the Newsletter Committee.

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