Real Estate Litigation Articles

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca A homeowner who used a “Reader’s Digest” manual to build a house that he later sold was found liable for negligent construction by the Ontario Superior Court earlier this month. Back in 1989, Noel Geneau built a house for himself and his wife in...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca An Ontario court judge has ruled that buyers of a pre-construction condo unit could close their purchase transaction despite the builder terminating the deal. Instead of moving in, the Lucases allowed a friend, Renato Duarte, to move in...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Ontario’s highest court has levelled an unusually harsh blast at the Tarion Warranty Corporation, saying its compulsory addendum form which must be attached to every builder agreement is complex, difficult to follow and does not protect...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca February is RRSP season, and there is no shortage of advice available to Canadians on tax-free investing before the deadline of March 2. One question which often arises at this time of year is whether homeowners should place available cash in an...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca When it comes to real estate, most Canadians speak in terms of Imperial measurement. The majority of home offers I see show frontage and depth measurements in feet, even though we officially switched to the metric system during the time of the...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Since the start of 2020, every new purchase agreement for a pre-construction residential condominium is required to have attached to it an information sheet highlighting important issues that are part of a pre-construction transaction. The...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca One of the questions I’m frequently asked by home sellers is what issues they must disclose during the negotiation of a sale agreement. Any discussion of a seller’s disclosure obligation begins with the doctrine of caveat emptor: buyer beware....

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca How does an interested buyer know if a home’s basement apartment is legal? And what information about basement apartments must real estate agents provide to buyers? Mohamed came to my office last month with an agreement to purchase a two-unit...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca This past year’s GTA real estate market may become known as the year of aborted transactions. Speaking to hundreds of real estate lawyers, both in person and online at a Law Society of Ontario seminar last month, Toronto lawyer Harry Herskowitz...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca What’s better for Ontario condominiums and their owners: electronic proxies or electronic voting? And what’s the difference? I recently wrote about solving the problem of condo owner apathy to meetings, where their votes are needed, by...