by admin | Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca One way of making better use of the scarce residential land we have in the GTA is to intensify housing. The City of Toronto’s official policy is pro-intensification. But its planning department seems to be actively opposed to squeezing more...
by admin | Jan 18, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Urban planner Sean Galbraith demonstrated — in recent Twitter posts — how Toronto’s own zoning regulations are standing in the way of Mayor John Tory’s goal to create 40,000 affordable housing units. Galbraith, of Galbraith & Associates,...
by admin | Jan 4, 2019 | 2019 Toronto Star Property Law Column, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca The Ontario Court of Appeal has reversed a lower court’s decision allowing the seller of a Toronto property to keep the $100,000 deposit of a buyer who refused to close the deal. Nancy Ann Pringle owned a detached, two-storey house on a corner...
by admin | Dec 21, 2018 | 2018 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca It never fails to amaze me how the real estate community stubbornly sticks to the old imperial measurements in a country which supposedly converted to the metric system back in the 1970s. Let’s take the marketing of real estate. The generally...
by admin | Dec 7, 2018 | 2018 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca What happens to the buyers’ deposit when they renege on the purchase agreement for a house and the owners resell for a higher price? That was the case in a 2016 sale of a house on Ravensbourne Cr., in Toronto. Davood and Hakimeh Shabestari...
