by admin | Aug 20, 2011 | 2011 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca With thousands of new Toronto condominiums being completed each year, investor purchasers are putting many of them on the market, anxious to cash in on their profits. Unfortunately, the paperwork involved in selling them, either during...
by admin | Aug 5, 2011 | 2011 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
One of the lesser known benefits of title insurance is that the insurer is obligated to provide and pay for the legal costs of defending the insured’s title if a third party sues claiming an interest in the land. That was the issue in the case of Knapman v. Deweerd...
by admin | Jul 23, 2011 | 2011 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Last month I received an email from a firm billing itself as a “very successful real estate investment firm that invests heavily in something called rent-to-own.” The e-mail offered several “hot deals” that were “going fast.” Three were on...
by admin | Jul 9, 2011 | 2011 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca One of the biggest challenges facing the new home industry today is the problem of illegal construction and sale of houses. In Ontario, it is illegal for a homebuilder to enter into an agreement of purchase and sale or a construction contract...
by admin | Jun 25, 2011 | 2011 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
The town of Port Hope, featured two weeks ago in a Saturday Star story on the impact of low-level nuclear contamination affecting local homeowners, is not the only Ontario municipality saddled with the burden of widespread soil contamination. The community of Cartier...
