Renovating an apartment is quite different from renovating a house but in ways that are not immediately obvious. And you don’t want to discover that when you’re halfway through the project and all work is suddenly halted – because you failed to ask permission from the Executive Committee (EC) of your building and its members [...]

There are few more vexatious issues in apartment blocks than the question of pet ownership. Some buildings won’t have a bar of the noisy, smelly little blighters while in others, failure to own a moggie or a doggie is such a breach of fashion protocol that you could end up being reported to the Owners [...]

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with living side-by-side with renters in an apartment building – as long as they’re good neighbours, who cares? But you would be wise to avoid buildings where renters outnumber owner-occupiers by two to one or more. The problem isn’t the renters per se; it’s the fact that the owners of the [...]