Real Estate Law & Property Law
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Agreements of Purchase and Sale: Fixtures, Chattels and Rental Items
Fixtures and chattelsThe specification of chattels versus fixtures happens to be one of the more contentious issues arising in a real estate transaction. To recap past...
Understanding the Deposit in a Real Estate Transaction
The depositA deposit on a real estate transaction is regarded as consideration by the buyer to the seller to sell their property at a future date. If...
Describing the Property in your Agreement of Purchase and Sale
The property that is the subject of the Agreement of Purchase and Sale must be identified in the Agreement. The municipal address is the first component...
General Information About Agreements of Purchase and Sale
A contract by nature, the Agreement of Purchase and Sale (“Agreement”) brings with it all the obligations, responsibilities and procedures of contract law. A binding contract...
Taxation of an Estate as a Trust
Upon the death of a taxpayer, a T3 trust tax return is prepared, as well as a report of the income earned by the estate after...
The Lesson Learned from a Leasing Arrangement
In the previous installment, we reviewed a scenario when the lender can attorn rents and the tenant has to pay rent to the lender. Assuming that...
ASSIGNMENT OF LEASES, RENTS, NON DISTURBANCE AND ATTORNMENT: How To Differentiate Between Them
In this context, Madame Justice McKinley also dealt with the situation where a lease is absolutely assigned by the owner of land but the reversionary interest...
A Discussion about the Assignment of Leases
As the Goodyear case considered in-depth assignments of rents and leases to determine the impact on the doctrine of privity, it is necessary to discuss the...
The Law of Lease Assignments
Earlier we have seen how Goodyear benefited from its lawsuit against Burnhamthorpe. This verdict is compared with the generally accepted good law set out in Corbett...
Assignments of Leases: Goodyear, A Case in Review
Goodyear v. BurnhamthorpeGoodyear was the tenant under a long-term ground lease of part of an office building in Etobicoke, known as 10 & 21 Four Seasons...
