Real Estate Litigation Articles

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca There is no right enshrined Canadian law that allows smoking either cannabis or tobacco in a rental property With the legalization of marijuana next month, landlords, tenants and condominium owners may still be uncertain about their rights to...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca An Ontario Superior Court ruling this year urged property buyers against overextending their finances in the wake of a failed deal. “When the residential real estate market is a rising market, most people — perhaps with the exception of...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Fluctuating lake levels put the principle of accretion to the test in a recent court case "Buy land," wrote Mark Twain. "They’re not making it anymore." But he wasn’t quite correct. The famous author probably didn’t know about the legal...

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca While staging is a very beneficial part of real estate sales process, buyers and sellers should always clarify what use will be made of the photos. When the sellers of a home hire a stager to help market and sell it, who owns the rights to the...