by admin | Feb 1, 2020 | 2020 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca When it comes to real estate, most Canadians speak in terms of Imperial measurement. The majority of home offers I see show frontage and depth measurements in feet, even though we officially switched to the metric system during the time of the...
by admin | Jan 18, 2020 | 2020 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Since the start of 2020, every new purchase agreement for a pre-construction residential condominium is required to have attached to it an information sheet highlighting important issues that are part of a pre-construction transaction. The...
by admin | Jan 3, 2020 | 2020 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca One of the questions I’m frequently asked by home sellers is what issues they must disclose during the negotiation of a sale agreement. Any discussion of a seller’s disclosure obligation begins with the doctrine of caveat emptor: buyer beware....
by admin | Dec 21, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca How does an interested buyer know if a home’s basement apartment is legal? And what information about basement apartments must real estate agents provide to buyers? Mohamed came to my office last month with an agreement to purchase a two-unit...
by admin | Dec 6, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca This past year’s GTA real estate market may become known as the year of aborted transactions. Speaking to hundreds of real estate lawyers, both in person and online at a Law Society of Ontario seminar last month, Toronto lawyer Harry Herskowitz...
