Articles 2019

The author discusses Ontario’s new rules for forming Personal Real Estate Corporations.

The author outlines whether builders can rely on "no-registration clauses" to prevent purchasers from registering a certificate of pending litigation on title to a property, even if it is the builder’s fault that a transaction cannot close.

A summary of the current practice of evictions of small commercial tenants in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author breaks down the different statutes and programs in place in several Canadian provinces.

The author discusses certain family law legislation (particularly the Family Law Act and the Partition Act) and legal principles when their clients are selling the matrimonial homes during a split, including when both spouses are on title and when only one spouse is on title.

In light of the recent LSO directions regarding remote commissioning, we have put together an outline of an approach that real estate lawyers can consider when obtaining a remote signature from a client. This is not legal advice and has not been approved by the Law Society of Ontario but is rather offered as a resource.

A review of the concept of caveat emptor and the possibility of holding a vendor's agent liable for non-disclosure of a major latent as a form of deception in real estate transactions.