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VeCondo pilot

Know the buildingbefore you buy the unit.

Every building here is drawn from what a source actually says about it. Move around the district, then look up a specific building’s record.

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Every building here is real. Each fact links to its source.

What a dossier shows

Facts before opinions. Evidence before scores.

VeCondo does not rate buildings 'good' or 'bad.' It organizes dated facts, source links, and explicit uncertainty — so you can decide what needs deeper investigation.

Historical water ingress

Dated. Located. Cited.

Envelope remediation

Proposed → approved → completed.

Special levies

Amount, vote, source page.

Elevator modernization

Permit, scope, completion.

Building permits

Municipal registry, full lifecycle.

Legal & tribunal cases

CRT, civil, outcomes linked.

Building rules & bylaws

Current text, effective date.

Management history

Company changes, tenure.

Missing information

Explicitly flagged, not hidden.

From the record
The tower from the south/southeast in morning light, showing the narrow base widening into the full rectangle at the top
Photo: Haatu, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Vancouver House
1480 Howe Street, Vancouver
2020 built52 storeys375 strata lotsEPS5752
Homes: 481 or 502 (sources disagree). City of Vancouver
Height: 155.6 m. CTBUH Skyscraper Center
Full occupancy permit: 29 July 2020. City of Vancouver
Design architect: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). CTBUH Skyscraper Center
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The evidence timeline

A dated record of what happened, and what we could verify.

Every event is dated and comes from a public source. A permit does not prove completion. A discussion does not prove approval.

Vancouver House
  1. 24 October 2013Public hearing: Council approves the rezoning unanimously (59 letters in support, 8 opposed, 2 on other matters).
  2. 5 May 2014Development Permit Board approves the tower development permit DE417538 (then 548 homes over six parking levels) with amended conditions; the two Granville St buildings (DE417597, DE417598) are heard at the same meeting.
  3. March 2015Construction begins, per a 2018 news report (CTBUH says 2016: sources disagree).
  4. June 2018Tower tops out at its highest floor (week of 25 June per the developer's spokesperson; the engineer says July 2018).
  5. 27 November 2019Partial occupancy phase 1: parkade, commercial shell and rental homes.
  6. 2 January 2020Home warranty cover for 1480 Howe Street starts (commencement date on the BC Housing New Homes Registry).
  7. 29 July 2020Full occupancy permit for the tower: 481 homes.
The buildings

Nine real buildings, picked to test the method.

Eight Vancouver condo towers drawn from the City's strata roll, each a different hard case, plus the Burnaby pilot. Every fact links to its source; a building with no free photo is shown as a drawing from its measurements.

The tower from the south/southeast in morning light, showing the narrow base widening into the full rectangle at the top
EPS5752built 2020375 strata lots

Vancouver House

1480 Howe Street, Vancouver

A new landmark towerView building
The TELUS Garden development, which the residential tower is part of
EPS3242built 2016428 strata lots

Telus Garden Residences

777 Richards Street, Vancouver

Public sources disagree on key factsView building
West Pender Place
EPS390built 2011154 strata lots

West Pender Place

1499 Pender Street West, Vancouver

A standard downtown towerView building
Drawing of Cielo from its measured outline and roof heightsMeasured drawing
BCS2555built 2007139 strata lots

Cielo

1205 Hastings Street West, Vancouver

A standard downtown towerView building
Drawing of Stratford Place from its measured outline and roof heightsMeasured drawing
VAS133built 1974104 strata lots

Stratford Place

1725 Pendrell Street, Vancouver

An older building with a long historyView building
Drawing of Conference Plaza from its measured outline and roof heightsMeasured drawing
LMS2371built 1996342 strata lots

Conference Plaza

438 Seymour Street, Vancouver (also 515 Pender Street West)

A complex legal historyView building
Drawing of Electric Avenue from its measured outline and roof heightsMeasured drawing
BCS1433built 2005456 strata lots

Electric Avenue

938 Smithe Street, Vancouver

An ordinary building, picked at randomView building
Drawing of The Grace from its measured outline and roof heightsMeasured drawing
BCS747built 200871 strata lots

The Grace

1280 Richards Street, Vancouver

An ordinary building, picked at randomView building
The Amazing Brentwood towers from above; Tower 2 is one of them
EPS6641built 2020563 strata lots

The Amazing Brentwood Tower 2

1955 Alpha Way, Burnaby

The Burnaby pilot buildingView building
What VeCondo is not

A preliminary check, not a replacement for professionals.

VeCondo does not replace a realtor, a strata-document reviewer, a home inspector, an engineer, a lawyer or notary, an insurance professional, or professional due diligence.

Its purpose is to organize available evidence, expose missing information, and help you determine what questions require deeper investigation.

No evidence located ≠ no problem exists.