Convert your thinking on property measurements

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...

Property deposits are forfeited, even if sale doesn’t go through

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...

Homebuyers should be very careful when reading property purchase agreements

by admin | Nov 23, 2018 | 2018 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca What happens when there is a significant discrepancy between the way a home is described on an MLS listing, and the details in the Agreement of Purchase and Sale? That was the issue in a court case decided earlier this year regarding a March...

So you’re having an open house. Remember to tell your realtor sex is not OK

by admin | Nov 9, 2018 | 2018 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Real estate lawyers get asked all kinds of oddball questions. Last week, one of my colleagues asked me how to respond to his client’s query about returning after an Open House at her home to find one of the neatly-made upstairs beds in complete...

Condo owner on the hook for inaccurate ‘clean’ status certificate

by admin | Oct 26, 2018 | 2018 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca What happens when an owner receives an incorrect status certificate issued by a condominium corporation? That was the issue in a case before the Ontario Court of Appeal earlier this year. Back in 2013, Dante Reino purchased a condo unit from his...

Derailing energy audits will benefit home sale process

by admin | Oct 12, 2018 | 2018 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Ford’s call to derail energy audits will benefit the home sale process The Ontario government’s decision to repeal the Green Energy Act has also changed the rules for homeowners looking to sell their properties In an email to me last week,...