by admin | Jun 30, 2025 | 2025 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Navigating a real estate agent’s creative bag of euphemisms, writes Bob Aaron, is key to cracking the code when searching for a home — like this handyman special with its low maintenance yard! Real estate has always had its own special language — with plenty of...
by admin | Mar 24, 2025 | 2025 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
“All 80-year-old unit owner Joshua Frankel wants is a good night’s sleep. Sleep deprivation is no trifling matter.” With these words in January, Justice R. Lee Akazaki began his 4,400-word ruling on a dispute between Frankel and York Region Condominium Corporation 664...
by admin | Mar 10, 2025 | 2025 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Case is a lesson for homeowners who did not buy title insurance when they bought their house, writes lawyer Bob Aaron, to arrange existing owner title insurance through their lawyers. A court decision released in January highlights the importance of homeowners having...
by admin | Feb 24, 2025 | 2025 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Faced with costs of thousands of dollars for each property, Lake of Bay residents responded with angry social media posts and letters to their councillors, Bob Aaron writes. In the wake of intense vocal opposition from local residents, the council of the Township of...
by admin | Jan 27, 2025 | 2025 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Want to avoid problems in your next real estate deal? Here are the top 10 issues in my experience that can lead to disappointment, unnecessary expense and even litigation in real estate agreements, in no particular order: Wrong unit I frequently see residential...
by admin | Dec 16, 2024 | 2024 Toronto Star Property Law Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
One of the most important real estate cases of the year was released by the Ontario Court of Appeal this month. It upsets the commonly-held interpretation of joint tenancy, a form of property ownership (not tenancy) which provides that on the death of one joint owner,...
