by James R.G. Cook | Jan 25, 2023 | Legal Issues
An easement may become abandoned as a legal right as a result of a prolonged lack of use. However, there is a high threshold to establish that a registered easement has lost its legal status. In Fromstein v. Michele-King, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice...
by James R.G. Cook | Jan 18, 2023 | News
The start of 2023 saw the Canadian government usher in a new policy purportedly aimed at improving housing affordability across the country. As previously reported, the most recent effort is a ban on foreign investors buying homes in Canada for two years. The policy...
by James R.G. Cook | Dec 23, 2022 | Legal Issues, News
QUICK HITS In CIBC v. Pena, the court had to determine whether the lender could take possession and sell a property that had been leased out to tenants by a borrower who had defaulted on a mortgage. The tenants opposed the lender’s application to sell the...
by James R.G. Cook | Nov 10, 2022 | News
Often, an agreement to purchase real estate will have a conditional period to allow for various steps to be completed by either the buyer or seller. An appeal decision in Ontario’s Divisional Court affirmed that a party cannot generally sue for compensation...
by James R.G. Cook | Sep 6, 2022 | Legal Issues
Ioannidis v. Ioannidis is a cautionary tale of siblings who owned an investment property without a written partnership or trust agreement. The dispute involved an income property in Kitchener, Ont., which was registered in the name of one brother (Steve), who held the...
