by REM Editorial Team | Mar 20, 2014 | Featured, Legal Issues
By Bob Aaron An Ontario Small Claims Court decision in January illustrates the complexity of using email to conclude real estate contracts and how easy it is to mess up a perfectly good real estate transaction. “This case,” wrote Deputy Judge J. Sebastian Winny,...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 18, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Legal Issues
A developer retained a law firm for the purchase of four commercial properties in downtown Toronto, for $22.5 million. Unfortunately title was owned by the City of Toronto for a strip of land in a laneway at the rear of one of the buildings, which meant a lack of...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 3, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Legal Issues
By Martin Rumack Most people know that real estate values can be affected by how property that is being sold has been used. One of the more unusual scenarios – and the one most likely to show up on the nightly news – is when a home has been used as a marijuana grow...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 20, 2014 | Featured, Legal Issues
By Jean Sorensen A B.C. Supreme Court justice has ruled that a mortgage company should be granted relief from forfeiture laws in the case of a seized grow-op, because the company followed standard practices of the day, exercised some due diligence and did not...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 5, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Legal Issues
Recently an action was commenced in Eastern Canada by an individual who was injured subsequent to manipulation (chiropractic treatment) received from the defendant chiropractor. A medical doctor gave expert opinion in court that was found to be admissible and...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 9, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Legal Issues
By Martin Rumack When everything goes right in the purchase of a new condominium, everyone is happy. But when things go wrong, it gets complicated. More importantly, buyers may not have all the recourse and remedies that they think. That’s the lesson to be drawn from...
