Why the bill is stuck
The reform of jointly owned buildings has been in parliament since 2023. The reason it has not passed is one sentence long, and it is about who does the paperwork.
A bill to reform the management of jointly owned buildings reached parliament in September 2023. Three years later it is still there. The reason is not the reserve fund, the insurance or the inspections. It is the question of who registers and supervises the committees.
The provision nobody wants
The bill creates a registration and supervision service for management committees and hands those duties to the district local government organisations, the bodies formed in the 2024 local government reform. In October 2025 those organisations said publicly that they do not want the duties and do not have the staff for them.
What happened next
In January 2026 the parliamentary committee stopped its discussion of the bill: the Interior Ministry and the district organisations could not agree on the fundamentals. In April the organisations criticised the handling of dangerous and jointly owned buildings again. In June, after the collapse of a building in Limassol, the developers’ association called the reform urgent. In July the Interior Minister named the bill one of three priorities and put a cost on implementing it: about €1.5 million and thirty posts.
What it means for your building
Nothing in the bill is in force. The committee is still required by the law as it stands, and the reserve fund, the insurance and the inspections are still the committee’s decisions. What has changed is how loud the conversation is, and how likely it is that the bill moves in the autumn session.
We keep the status on the pinned entry and change its date every time we check.
