Analyzing dwellers’ perceptions and challenges to sustaining condominium housing development in Gondar City, Central Gondar, Ethiopia
Author or co-authors: Bantayehu Workineh, Kassahun, Gasu
Published: Workineh, B.A., Gashu, K. Analyzing dwellers’ perceptions and challenges to sustaining condominium housing development in Gondar City, Central Gondar, Ethiopia. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 13, 1383 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-07683-1
Funders: No
Keywords: Building management, Development, Sustainability,
Summary:
Condominium housing is a type of housing that differs in terms of administration, resource sharing, and service delivery. This study aims to assess residents’ perceptions of condominium housing and identify key challenges to its sustaining condominium development in Gondar City. A mixed research approach was used, and samples were collected using systematic and snowball sampling methods. The challenges to sustaining the condominium housing development were affordability, quality of the house and neighborhood, and low loan return.Holistic Legislative Change: A mixed title environment case study
Author or co-authors: Susan Proctor
Published: 8th International Research Forum on Multi Owned Properties
Keywords: By-laws/rules/CC&Rs, Developer handover, Insurance, Law,
Summary:
A critical question for strata reform – a ‘Wicked Problem’ – is how we inform legislative change holistically for our buildings so we can arrive at better buildings and communities across all multi owned properties, both new and old. This paper will consider a case study of issues arising from introducing a mandated requirement (applying to all new buildings that contain a units plan in the ACT that will exist in a larger building envelope, among other titles) to have a building management statement (BMS) registered prior to registration of the Units Plan.Off-the-plan apartment sales and the project marketing industry’s role in Sydney’s Build-to-Sell market
Author or co-authors: Rupa Ganguli, Bill Randolph
Published: Ganguli, R., Randolph, B. (2026) Off-the-plan apartment sales and the project marketing industry’s role in Sydney’s Build-to-Sell market, Housing Studies, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2026.2617559
This paper has been peer reviewed
Keywords: Development, Economics / markets,
Summary:
Australia’s largest city, Sydney, witnessed a boom-bust Build-to-Sell (BTS) apartment market cycle closely associated with rising private investor-landlordism in the 2010s. Within a highly financialised asset class, apartments have become a wealth accumulation vehicle. Development financing is underpinned by off-the-plan sales facilitated by real estate intermediaries, or project marketing agents (PMAs).Volumetric Subdivision and the Architecures of Property
Author or co-authors: Douglas Harris
Published: (2025) 9 Journal of Law, Property and Society 1
Keywords: Law, Planning, Policy,
Summary:
In many jurisdictions, land may now be subdivided into three-dimensional air space parcels and further subdivided into strata or condominium lots. Using examples from the Canadian province of British Columbia, this article describes this growing practice of volumetric subdivision within volumetric subdivision, and it argues that theories of property need to account for this architecture of ownership and governance, which is rapidly becoming the norm for large, mixed-use developments in many cities around the world.ISO 19650.3 AND THE DIGITISATION OF OPERATIONS IN STRATA-TITLED RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT DEVELOPMENTS
Author or co-authors: Karen Tanfield, Chris Heywood, Georgia Warren-Myers, Mohsen Kalantari, Davood Shojaei
Published: Tanfield, K, Heywood, C, Warren-Myers, G, Kalantari, M & Shojaei, D. (2023) ISO 19650.3 and the Digitisation of Operations in Strata-Titled Residential Apartment Developments: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, vol. 1176, CIB W070 Conference on Facility Management and Maintenance
Funders: Building 4.0 CRC
Keywords: Construction, Design, Development,
Summary:
The purpose of this paper is to identify shortcomings of the application of ISO 19650.3: Organisation and digitisation of information about buildings and civil engineering works including building information modelling (BIM) Information management using building information modelling Part 3: Operational phase of the assets during the design, documentation, and construction of strata-titled residential developments.HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION BOARDS OF DIRECTORS’ LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES IN FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA
Author or co-authors:
Published: Bennett, AM. (2008) Homeowner Association Boards of Directors’ Leadership Competencies in Fairfax, Virginia: Foundation for Community Association Research
Funders: Byron Hanke Fellowship, Foundation for Community Association Research
Keywords: Building management, Disputes/conflict, Governance,
Summary:
The purpose of this qualitative, four-round modified online Delphi technique study was to identify leadership competencies necessary for homeowner association board leadership and to develop a profile of competencies that may contribute to the development of a model of effectiveness. The research focused on homeowner associations in Fairfax County, Virginia. The findings contain the panel’s most preferred homeowner association board leadership competencies and the top 10 factors that might contribute to a model of homeowner association board of director effectiveness.RECOVERING COMMUNITIES: RESIDENT LED ALTERNATIVES TO CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN PUBLIC HOUSING REDEVELOPMENT
Author or co-authors: Sheryl-Ann Simpson
Published: Simpson, S. (2008) Recovering Communities: Resident Led Alternatives to Contemporary Trends in Public Housing Redevelopment, Iowa: Foundation for Community Association Research
Funders: Byron Hanke Fellowship, Foundation for Community Association Research
Keywords: Culture, Equity, Liveability,
Summary:
This thesis examines four resident led initiatives developing markedly different analysis, and strategies for addressing the challenges of public housing. The key findings of this thesis are that while these initiatives differ, they all address key ideas missing from professionally led development, including changes in the institutions governing public housing, a focus on equity and justice, and more nuanced spatial thinking. They are also forging equal partnerships with outside organizations.NEIGHBORHOOD GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR ROLE IN PROPERTY VALUES
Author or co-authors: Daniel Scheller
Published: Scheller, DS. (2010) Neighborhood Governments and their Role in Property Values, Florida: Foundation for Community Association Research
Funders: Byron Hanke Fellowship, Foundation for Community Association Research
Keywords: Building management, Economics / markets, Quantitative research/statistics,
Summary:
Recent research has only examined the effects of homeowner associations (HOAs) on house prices, and fails to account for the endogenous relationship between property values and form of governance. In this paper, I use a form of instrumental variable regression to study the effects of homeowner and neighborhood associations on property values. I find that HOAs increase property values, while neighborhood associations exert no influence on property values.MANAGING CONFLICT IN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS: THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, AND WHY
Author or co-authors:
Published: Feldscher, CL. (2011) Managing Conflict in Community Associations: The Who, What, Where, When, and Why, Massachusetts: Foundation for Community Association Research
Funders: Byron Hanke Fellowship, Foundation for Community Association Research
Keywords: Building management, Disputes/conflict, Governance,
Summary:
This paper intends to address contradictory discourses on homeowners’ associations by first addressing the role of conflict in organizations and then addressing the role of conflict in community associations. The first part of the paper will contextualize the role of conflict in organizational life. The second part will report the preliminary findings of an original survey measuring the scope and scale of conflict in Greater-Boston area community associations.ENGAGING APARTMENT RESIDENTS IN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS: A STUDY IN RESTON, VIRGINIA
Author or co-authors: Katie Kerstetter
Published: Kerstetter, K. (2012) Engaging Apartment Residents in Community Associations: A Study in Reston, Virginia: Foundation for Community Association Research
Funders: Byron Hanke Fellowship, Foundation for Community Association Research
Keywords: Governance, Information available to owners and residents, Psychology,
Summary:
In the spirit of encouraging the development of vibrant and inclusive communities, this report examines how to include a subset of renters (i.e. apartment residents) more fully in community association activities. This report focuses on Reston Association, one of the largest community associations in the U.S. Through interviews with Association with apartment staff and a community survey of residents, this report explores the opportunities available to members, the extent to which residents are involved in community activities, and what challenges these residents face to greater participation.