The Closing Corner: Insights & Innovations in Canadian Real Estate Law

Welcome to "the closing corner", your go-to resource for the latest insights and innovations in Canadian real estate law. Here, we explore legal trends, offer expert advice, and share valuable resources.

Welcome to "the closing corner", your go-to resource for the latest insights and innovations in Canadian real estate law. Here, we explore legal trends, offer expert advice, and share valuable resources.

Are Oral Wills Valid?

Leaving videotaped greetings for viewing after you depart can be heart warming for loved ones and cherished friends. But there's quite a difference between wishing…

Buying on High Water

Buying on high water could put a serious, and dangerous, damper on your home owning ambitions.  As a 2018 Toronto incident demonstrates, high water can…

Do Housing Accelerator Funds Work?

Interest rates are rising and mid-priced housing is hard to find – no wonder Ontario home buyers are clamoring for government housing accelerator funds.   Housing…

Leverage a Home Equity Loan to Invest

Put a home equity loan to work by investing in income properties or a business. Buying rental properties could give you income for life. So…

Investments vs Life Insurance in Wills

Investments or life insurance -- making the right estate decisions for your family is time well spent. Whether you plan an elaborate portfolio of stocks,…

Dealing with Disclaimed Inheritances in Ontario

Probate headaches ahead: a benefactor has renounced (refused to accept) disclaimed inheritances in an Ontario Will. What is an estate trustee to do? Disclaimed inheritances…

4 Ways to Prevent Estate Disputes in Wills

Your Last Will and Testament need not be a work in progress. Write your Will in a way that minimizes estate disputes. Disputes among beneficiaries…

Two Wives, No Will – Who Gets the Estate

A secret wife, no Will, and a substantial estate -- who gets the estate or do both?  That's what unfolded in 2017, when a British…

Illegal Secondary Suites and Right to Cancel

Bouncing between illegal secondary suites, or couch surfing in an attic room -- what does it matter where you live when housing in the GTA…

5 Tips for Hiring a Home Contractor

You checked the web, and talked to a realtor at an open house, now here are our tips for hiring a home contractor.  What’s the…

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