I have been in the construction industry, building science envelope game and defect litigation long enough to gain a pretty good handle on the “how, why, when and who.” I recently read an article about defect litigation that explained the reason that multi-family projects were prime targets. The claim was it is the convenience of having things neatly bundled up. To some extent this is true but it goes much deeper and covers more ground. I am not an attorney and my editorial is simply my opinion of what I have observed over the last few decades.
Multi-family residential construction is indeed a prime target for defect litigation. The first reason I heard of was given back in the 1990s. I was told it was because multi-family developers were notoriously cheap and developers would cut cost everywhere possible in order to make more money. Problems were made worse by the repetitive detailing. Making the same mistake over and over is definitely a problem.