Fifteen directors serve on our Board of Directors, with each normally serving a three-year term. The terms are staggered so that five are elected by members each year at our Annual General Meeting.

Maintaining adequate insurance coverage is a key part of a condo board’s responsibility

Georgette Horne of WCC 969

Cooperation is key when sharing a fence with another property

More than 110 attended CCI Manitoba’s Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Norwood Hotel to support CCI and network with condo owners, directors and industry professionals.

The offer-to-purchase forms mandated under The Real Estate Services Act for use when selling completed single-family residential homes or units in a condominium are approximately 30 years old.

Manitoba has bucked the national decline in construction activity, showing year-over-year growth led by commercial investments. Residential investment is also expected to rebound this year after several years of declines due to high interest rates.

In May, I had the pleasure of traveling to Waterloo, Ont., along with three other members of the Board of Directors, to attend the CCI National Leaders' Forum, whose theme was Rivers of Opportunity: Steering the Future of the Condo Industry.

A condominium building’s energy efficiency can be increased and utility bills reduced through Efficiency Manitoba’s In-Suite Energy Efficiency Program.   

If you're even a moderately active consumer of news, you’ll have seen reports of cyberattacks on both public and private interests. Media headlines are filled with cyberattack stories.

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.

CCI Manitoba director Mara Doctoroff of Cushman & Wakefield | Stevenson (CWS) has been recognized as Property Manager of the Year by the Professional Property Managers Association at its annual general meeting and trade show.

Out with the old and in with the new! You think your condo needs a new board but how do you achieve that?

Through its Business Lighting Program, Efficiency Manitoba is offering financial incentives to condominium corporations that complete energy-efficient lighting upgrades in the common areas of their buildings. 

Being a condo board member isn’t just about attending meetings and voting on decisions — it’s about managing a multi-million-dollar asset while balancing budgets, projects and community expectations. Many board members take on the role with little experience in property management, financial oversight or project planning, yet they are tasked with making critical decisions that affect owners, residents and the long-term stability of the condominium.