by Natalka Falcomer | Mar 8, 2021 | News
Amidst chaos, we create certainty by latching onto the leader who can steer the ship in the right direction. This human knee-jerk reaction to pandemonium is evidenced by any historical event, except this time who we latched onto was entirely different. COVID-19 has...
by Natalka Falcomer | Feb 3, 2021 | Featured, Legal Issues
While I’ve always been an advocate of acting in good faith, a new Supreme Court ruling has driven the point home and reaffirmed a slightly different rule – the duty to act honestly. This duty is especially important when negotiating agreements of purchase and sale and...
by Natalka Falcomer | Dec 8, 2020 | Featured, Legal Issues
COVID-19 has forever changed business as usual. The most obvious way it has changed, perhaps forever, is that we have dispensed with the strict enforcement of our contracts, especially in the commercial leasing space. I believe that courts will mirror this change by...
by Natalka Falcomer | Nov 5, 2020 | Featured
Ontario tenants breathed a collective sigh of relief when the moratorium on evictions via the Protecting Small Business Act in Ontario was extended to the Halloween weekend. Landlords, on the other hand, had no time to breathe as the act forced them to reverse their...
by Natalka Falcomer | Oct 14, 2020 | News
What surprised Ryan Henry, vice president, investment sales and leasing, RDH Group, Royal LePage Commercial about the pandemic is how quickly it reverberated in commercial real estate space. Typically, real estate lags the broader changes in the economy by at least...