Exemptions Announced For Condo Manager Licensing

For the past few years, Alberta has been moving toward requiring condominium managers to obtain education and maintain provincial licenses. The Government of Alberta, through the Ministry of Service Alberta, selected the Real Estate Council of Alberta (RECA) to define and regulate a condominium management industry, separate and apart from other industries RECA oversees such as property management and real estate trading.

The Real Estate Act, RSA 2000 c R-5, regulations enacted thereunder and Rules approved by the various RECA Industry Councils have been substantially modified in recent years to accommodate the new condominium management licensing regime. For example, section 1(1)(e.2) of the Real Estate Act now defines "condominium management service" as "the exercising of a power or the performing of a duty of a condominium corporation on behalf of the condominium corporation including, but not limited to: