by admin | Feb 20, 2015 | 2015 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Ensure you’re covered for municipal work orders, building bylaw violations It is a common understanding among real estate lawyers that residential title insurance will provide protection against municipal work orders and building bylaw...
by admin | Feb 6, 2015 | 2015 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Questions arise about obligation to disclose whether property has stigma Is a real estate agent obligated to disclose to purchaser clients whether the house they are interested in buying is stigmatized by a connection to a crime, murder,...
by admin | Jan 9, 2015 | 2015 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Title insurers shocked by claims over inaccuracies in documents. Ensure your lawyer checks your deed for the correct condo unit numbers. Or, better, do the review with your lawyer. Last month I wrote about a court case involving the purchase of...
by admin | Dec 26, 2014 | 2014 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca You may be obliged to disclose or discover murders, suicides or hauntings If a property in Ontario has been stigmatized as a result of a murder, suicide, death, haunting — or other unpleasant event — must this be disclosed to a purchaser? That...
by admin | Dec 13, 2014 | 2014 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Illegal third floor townhouse unit allowed to remain A major decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal last week has raised the bar on the level of due diligence required by condominium corporations in preparing status certificates. The origins of...
