Here, owning the condo flat means being first-class property owner, registered in public real estate cadastre, like any other real estate, while a homeowner ass

Here, owning the condo flat means being first-class property owner, registered in public real estate cadastre, like any other real estate, while a homeowner association manages common/external parts of the building, it does not own them, and has limited authority to tasks strictly defined by law. It seems strange to me that condo ownership in US is so much weaker. > They never owned their home. They owned a share in a compact that owned their home That is pretty much housing cooperatives works here, while condos provides much higher legal certainty by registering members as individual flat owners.