Communal Responsibilty
Posted: 07 Dec 2016 15:04
Thank you for the recent helpful and informative article relating to Committee Member's liabilities.
We are a small complex of a mixture of Apartments, Masionettes and Villas in the Paphos area. We are still awaiting the issue of our individual Title Deeds. A few years ago, after pressure from the individual property owners, the Developer, whilst still the Title Deed owner of the communal areas, surrendered the right to maintain and upkeep the communal areas which allowed the appointment of a Management Company to undertake these duties. This Management Company has individual contracts with each property owner and initially, several of these owners formed a Committee which was unregistered.
Earlier this year this Committee disbanded and was not replaced however a few owners agreed to act as a nominal go-between or point of contact between the Management Company and the other owners.
The 2 questions I have are:
1. In this situation, where does the responsibility for health and safety and compliance with all the relevant laws now lie?
2. When we are issued with individual Title Deeds to our properties, where will responsibility lie if none of the owners are willing to be committee members?
Look forward to receiving some comments.
We are a small complex of a mixture of Apartments, Masionettes and Villas in the Paphos area. We are still awaiting the issue of our individual Title Deeds. A few years ago, after pressure from the individual property owners, the Developer, whilst still the Title Deed owner of the communal areas, surrendered the right to maintain and upkeep the communal areas which allowed the appointment of a Management Company to undertake these duties. This Management Company has individual contracts with each property owner and initially, several of these owners formed a Committee which was unregistered.
Earlier this year this Committee disbanded and was not replaced however a few owners agreed to act as a nominal go-between or point of contact between the Management Company and the other owners.
The 2 questions I have are:
1. In this situation, where does the responsibility for health and safety and compliance with all the relevant laws now lie?
2. When we are issued with individual Title Deeds to our properties, where will responsibility lie if none of the owners are willing to be committee members?
Look forward to receiving some comments.