Management and maintenance of multi-family buildings in Croatia: perspective of co-owners’ representatives

Abstract The paper deals with maintenance and management problems in multi-family buildings Zagreb other Croatian cities from the perspective of co-owners’ representatives. After 1990, when there was intensive privatization housing, responsibility for housing stock shifted to private owners companies. Apartment have been given obligation maintain faced challenges maintaining managing common property. empirical research conducted on a convenience sample co-owners' representatives ( N = 353) using survey method. results are analysed according three construction periods buildings: built before 1945, during socialist period (from 1945 1990) post-socialist (after 1991). show that all certain bigger or smaller shortcomings regarding building quality, then maintenance. concludes insufficient financial organisational resources, engagement managers, inadequate collaboration between weak energy renovation some most important by