Who It's For
Four people,
one building's record.
A buyer, an owner, a council member and an agent need different depths of the same three parts — what the building is, what is around it, and what it has decided. Most of them stop at the first, which is free. None of them should have to read eight hundred pages to reach any of it.
Home buyers
What the building has been putting off and what it is going to cost — levies, reserve fund, litigation, envelope — before the offer goes in.
Read on →Homeowners
Your own building's record: where the fees go, what the bylaws say, and whether a levy is coming.
Read on →Strata councils
What the council decided and what the engineer said was due — years of history, answerable with the source attached.
Read on →Realtors
Hand a client the building's condition and finances in plain language — a white-label Report with your name on it.
Read on →For Home Buyers
Know what you're buying before you commit
A strata package can run hundreds of pages of minutes, financials, bylaws, and reports. You usually get a short window to review it — and the costly surprises are buried deep. SearchStrata reads all of it for you.
What gets missed
- ⚠Special levies and looming repair costs hidden in old meeting minutes
- ⚠An underfunded contingency reserve fund you'd inherit on day one
- ⚠Litigation, insurance gaps, and bylaw restrictions that affect your plans
Surface the red flags fast
Get a plain-language summary of financial health, special levies, building condition, insurance, and litigation — with citations to the exact pages.
Ask anything, get sourced answers
“Are pets allowed?” “Is a special levy coming?” “How much are fees going up?” Ask in plain English and get answers backed by the documents.
Decide with confidence
Run a ready-made buyer checklist or build your own, then compare properties side by side before you write an offer.
For Current Homeowners
Finally understand your own strata
You already own your unit — but the documents that govern your fees, your renovations, and your rights are dense and easy to ignore. SearchStrata turns your strata's paperwork into clear answers, so you're not caught off guard at the next AGM.
What gets missed
- ⚠Fee increases and special levies you didn't see coming
- ⚠Bylaws and rules about pets, rentals, and renovations you're not sure apply to you
- ⚠A contingency reserve fund and depreciation report you've never actually read
Make sense of your fees and levies
Understand where your strata fees go, how healthy the reserve fund is, and whether a special assessment is on the horizon — in minutes, not an evening of reading.
Know the rules before you act
Planning a renovation, a rental, or a new pet? Ask SearchStrata what your bylaws and rules actually say, with the relevant clause cited so you can act with confidence.
Walk into the AGM prepared
Catch up on recent minutes and decisions before the meeting, so you can ask the right questions and vote with the full picture in front of you.
For Strata Councils
Years of strata history, searchable in seconds
Council members are volunteers — and the institutional memory of a strata lives across years of minutes, contracts, and reports that nobody has time to re-read. SearchStrata gives your council a single place to ask questions and get sourced answers from the entire document history.
What gets missed
- ⚠“What did we decide about this last time?” buried somewhere in old minutes
- ⚠New council members with no easy way to get up to speed on the building's history
- ⚠Owner questions, AGM prep, and contractor disputes that all require digging through the archive
Search the entire archive at once
Upload years of minutes, financials, bylaws, and reports, then ask a question and get an answer drawn from all of it — with citations to the exact meeting and page.
Onboard new council members in an afternoon
Hand new members a tool that can explain past decisions, ongoing projects, and the building's track record, instead of a banker's box of PDFs.
Prepare for meetings and answer owners
Pull the history behind a recurring repair, confirm what a past resolution actually said, and respond to owner questions with documented, defensible answers.
For Realtors
Give your clients clarity — with your name on it
Your buyers count on you to flag what matters in a strata package, but reading hundreds of pages before every subject-removal deadline isn't realistic. SearchStrata does the close reading so you can hand clients a clear, branded report and answer their questions with confidence.
What gets missed
- ⚠No time to read every strata package before your client's deadline
- ⚠Clients overwhelmed by dense documents they don't understand
- ⚠Wanting to add value and stand out without taking on legal risk
Deliver white-label reports
Hand clients a branded, plain-language report on the building's financials, levies, and red flags — your name on a professional analysis, not a banker's box of PDFs.
Move faster on every deal
Custom criteria checklists turn a strata package into a client-ready summary in minutes, even on a tight subject-removal timeline.
Equip your whole team
Up to five team seats and branded PDF exports on the Agent plan, so everyone at your brokerage can give clients the same polished due-diligence experience.
Common questions
- What is Location Insights?
- Location Insights scores the area around a BC strata building from public data across nine areas — transit, schools, hazard, amenities, crime, infrastructure, development, demographics and change — with the records behind every figure and the gaps named rather than scored as zero. It answers a different question from the document analysis: your report reads the package you upload, while Location Insights measures what those documents never mention. Included with Pro and Agent, in beta for BC corporations, and reference only rather than a valuation.
- Do I have to be buying a property to use SearchStrata?
- No. While many buyers use SearchStrata for due diligence, current homeowners use it to understand their own strata's fees, bylaws, and reserve fund, and strata councils use it to search years of documents and past decisions. Anyone who needs to make sense of strata documents can use it.
- Can a strata council use SearchStrata for the whole building's document history?
- Yes. Councils can upload years of minutes, financials, bylaws, contracts, and reports, then ask questions across the entire archive and get answers with citations to the exact meeting and page. It's an easy way to preserve institutional memory and onboard new council members.
- I already own my unit. What would I get out of it?
- As an owner you can quickly understand where your strata fees go, whether the contingency reserve fund is healthy, whether a special levy is likely, and what your bylaws say about pets, rentals, and renovations — all without reading hundreds of pages yourself.
- I'm a realtor — can I give clients reports with my own branding?
- Yes. The Agent plan includes white-label reports and branded PDF exports, plus up to five team seats — so you can hand buyers a polished, plain-language analysis under your own name. See the pricing page for details.
- Does it work for both BC strata and Alberta condo documents?
- Yes. SearchStrata is built for Canadian strata and condominium documents, covering both BC strata packages and Alberta condo packages — minutes, financial statements, bylaws, insurance certificates, and the province's capital-planning report (a depreciation report in BC, a reserve fund study in Alberta).
One tool, whatever your role in the strata
Buyers, owners, and councils all rely on the same dense documents. SearchStrata makes them readable for everyone — start free today.
Building intelligence, in three parts
The building, the neighbourhood around it, and its own documents. The building is free and needs no account — its facts were already public.
1 · Free, no account
The building
What you’re buying into
Built of, year, storeys, homes, who manages it, what's been remediated. Assembled from land title, the assessment roll and strata filings. No account.
19,000+ BC corporations · $0
Search the record2 · Pro
The neighbourhood
What you can’t change
Nine areas past the lot line, measured from public BC data — transit, schools, hazard, crime, what's approved next door. Never in the building's own paperwork.
Location Insights · Pro
How Location Insights works3 · Upload
The documents
What you’re inheriting
The levies, the reserve fund, the litigation, the engineer's schedule — read out of this corporation's own package, each finding pointing at its page.
Your documents · deep analysis
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