Bill 150 targets long-suffering homeowner

by admin | Mar 7, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Imposing mandatory energy reports will further depress prices and sales volumes If it was the intention of the Ontario government to do as much damage as possible to the Toronto real estate market, then it has succeeded admirably in its goals....

Don’t take law into own hands over fence dispute

by admin | Feb 28, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca The Ontario Court of Appeal has written what may well be the final chapter in what I call The Case of the $100,000 Fence. The case involved a dispute over a strip of land between two houses on Johnston Ave. near Sheppard and Yonge in North...

CBC MARKETPLACE – NEW HOME NIGHTMARES

by admin | Feb 24, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

CBC MARKETPLACE – NEW HOME NIGHTMARES – Wendy Mesley (with Mike Holmes and Bob Aaron)

Harmonized tax would hit renovations, resales

by admin | Feb 21, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca The already battered real estate industry had reason for concern when Premier Dalton McGuinty said last month that “we owe it to ourselves to take a good, long hard look” at harmonizing the GST with the Ontario provincial sales tax....

Licensed home inspectors make perfect sense

by admin | Feb 14, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to license home inspectors in order to protect buyers by ensuring qualified inspections. The B.C. model could well serve as a template for similar legislation in Ontario. In announcing the...