Strata & property contracts across Canada

Strata and property work covers property management, building envelope engineering, depreciation reports and appraisals, and handyman and general maintenance. Public buyers include housing providers, municipalities and other owners of residential and mixed-use buildings, and the same services sell to stratas and co-ops.

How is this work bought?

Property management contracts cover running a portfolio of units for an owner: tenancy, maintenance coordination, finances and reporting. They are long service contracts, scored heavily on experience and staffing. Building envelope and depreciation report work is professional consulting: inspections, condition assessments, reserve fund studies and repair planning, bought through requests for proposals where qualifications carry most of the score. Handyman and general maintenance is usually on call, through standing offers or prequalified lists, for repairs too small to tender one by one.

What do buyers check?

For professional services: credentials, the qualified people who will do the work, comparable projects and professional liability insurance. Property management buyers look at licensing where the province requires it, trust accounting and how you handle tenant issues. Handyman buyers want hourly rates, response times, a range of skills and clean safety records, because the work happens in occupied homes.

When is it tendered?

Property management and consulting contracts come up when their term ends or when a buyer adds buildings. Condition assessments are often commissioned ahead of capital planning in the fall. Handyman lists are refreshed every year or two.

Where to start

Read standing offers and prequalified lists and how to write an RFP proposal, then see the trade pages for handyman work and depreciation reports.