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...
by admin | Nov 22, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca What’s better for Ontario condominiums and their owners: electronic proxies or electronic voting? And what’s the difference? I recently wrote about solving the problem of condo owner apathy to meetings, where their votes are needed, by...
by admin | Nov 8, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca I am regularly surprised at how frequently a land survey is viewed as unnecessary when it could be considered the single most important document in a real estate transaction. A survey was the focus of a court decision released last month in...
by admin | Oct 25, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca An easy solution to the problem of owner apathy in condominium buildings, and a simple way to encourage interest and participation, is to introduce electronic voting. Back in November, 2017, the Condominium Act was amended to allow electronic...
by admin | Oct 15, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca If the city of Toronto was serious about tackling the housing shortage, why would it charge Toronto homeowners $300,000 to legalize three bachelor apartments in their house? Patrick and Susan own a three-storey home in central Toronto. In 2001,...
