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...
by admin | Jun 11, 2011 | 2011 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
An Ontario court has found a real estate agent partially liable in damages for failing to review a home inspector’s report carefully with his purchaser client. The court found that the agent’s duty did not end with the recommendation that the purchaser obtain a home...
by admin | May 28, 2011 | 2011 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
If there ever was any doubt about the risks to sellers and real estate agents of using the Seller Property Information Statement (SPIS), a decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal earlier this month would seem to have put them to rest once and for all. In the case of...
by admin | May 14, 2011 | 2011 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Does a seller have an obligation to disclose to a purchaser with young children the fact that a person convicted of child pornography lives across the street? That was the issue in a court case which came before Justice Alexandra Hoy in March of this year. The...
by admin | Apr 30, 2011 | 2011 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca The governing bodies of the notary and legal professions in Quebec have launched a lawsuit against several title insurance companies over the preparation and registration of mortgages and discharges of mortgages on real estate in the province....
