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2011 

GTA Condo Market on the Move! Ontario Real Estate Source By Brian Madigan LL.B. The Toronto and GTA condo market is very active. More and more, homeowners are turning to condominium apartments. That is quite a change from the late 1960's when this all started. In 2010, there were 37,041 new and ...
02/07/2011
Agent Jailed for 15 Months! Ontario Real Estate Source By Brian Madigan LL.B.  Well actually not. That was in fact the sentence but the defendant had already fled the country. The agent artificially inflated the price of a Toronto home, basically doubling its value from the low two hundreds to t...
02/05/2011
Unfair Business Practices Ontario Real Estate Source By Brian Madigan LL.B.The Business Practices Act was a very good piece of legislation, but not too many people knew about it, so last year the Ontario Government replaced it with the Consumer Protection Act.When it comes to real estate there a...
02/05/2011
The Role of a Business Broker  Ontario Real Estate Source By Brian Madigan LL.B.A business broker is regulated in Ontario under the same legislation that applies to real estate agents, namely the Real Estate and Business Brokers Act, 2002.In fact, under the Act a business is considered to be real...
02/04/2011
Thinking of Living Common Law? Ontario Real Estate Source By Brian Madigan LL.B.Often, couples living common law will mistakenly believe that they have equal ownership of the family home. This is not the case. They will only have equal ownership if they are on title, have signed a cohabitation a...
02/03/2011
Introduction This is an introduction to the laws relating to chattels and fixtures. Chattels are personal property and if sufficiently affixed to the land actually become part of it. Although, many real estate professionals feel that the purview of the chattel-fixture debate falls clearly within ...
02/02/2011
Chattels and Fixtures ~ End of Series (thanks) By Brian Madigan LL.B. I wanted to express my sincere appreciation to all my friends here at Active Rain who participated in my Chattel-Fixture Series. We started out with over 42 tough problem situations before we looked at any of the law. Over a f...
02/02/2011
Chattels and Fixtures ~ Summary Ontario Real Estate Source Brian Madigan LL.B. As you consider the matter of chattels as personal property and their conversion into fixtures forming part of the real property, you will appreciate that the standard arrangements contained in an agreement of purchas...
02/02/2011
Toronto's Parking By-law 2011  By Brian Madigan LL.B. Toronto came up with a new parking by-law in the summer of 2010. The problem was that no one read it through carefully. Effectively, it restricted parking on one's own driveway. You needed to have a garage. No garage, then no parking on your d...
02/02/2011
Business Chattels Deemed Part of Transaction Ontario Real Estate Source  By Brian Madigan LL.B. Ordinarily, one would think that chattels are not included in an agreement of purchase and sale concerning real estate. And, most of the time they would be right. However, this is not the case when we ...
02/02/2011
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