Despite good intentions, there are limits to how far a REALTOR® should go to help a colleague when it comes to business collaborations and opportunities.

Posted Jun 30, 2022 by Amy Peck

A recent Civil Resolution Tribunal decision highlights some important practice points for licensees in transactions involving strata…

Posted Jul 18, 2019 by Oana Hyatt

In a recent case from the BC Provincial Court, the following disclaimer was found ineffective in defending the buyer’s claim that the…

Posted Jan 21, 2019 by Oana Hyatt

Raising financing for a specific project occasionally involves pooling the funds of a number of investors in a mortgage in favour of a limited company which is incorporated and managed by the persons who brought the…

It is not every circumstance when an agency will be liable for misrepresentations made by its employee/salesperson….

Normally, the listing agent for the owner of an existing home is unconcerned with set backs or other limitations which would affect the size and location of a home to be constructed upon the lot upon which the home…

A vendor innocently misrepresents the area of his lot as 10 acres when it is only six acres. If the purchaser relied upon this misrepresentation and discovered the mistake BEFORE completing his purchase…

Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning “brazen nerve”…

Termites, latent defect, non-disclosure, breach of duty, fraudulent misrepresentation, and all occurring in Toronto. A young couple purchased a home in an area of termite…

John and Joan were looking for revenue property which they found in 1980 thirteen miles east of Smithers Iying between the Yellowhead Highway…