European condominium law: Nine key choices

Abstract

The legal and institutional design of condominiums plays an essential role in the ability of apartment owners to engage in effective collective action to promote both individual and collective interests in and around residential buildings. This chapter identifies some of the key choices that legal systems across Europe have had to make in dealing with this increasingly prevalent form of private residential governance in Europe’s cities. Policy choices for condominium law may have in turn long-term effects for Europe’s most pressing social and political issues.