Service Area: Real Estate

What is the Federal Budget? Every year the Department of Finance is tasked with balancing the revenue and expenses of the Government of Canada. As[...]

The City of Ottawa’s Finance and Economic Development committee has approved a new vacant unit tax. The new tax is set to apply in 2022[...]

In today’s episode, Environmental Issues and Real Estate Transactions, host Cheryl Gerhardt McLuckie talks to her colleague, Real Estate lawyer Daniella Sicoli-Zupo. They discuss environmental issues arising in[...]

In a previous blog, I discussed the importance of having a financing condition when buying a property. While the focus of most people is on[...]

You’ve found yourself in a very unfortunate situation – the buyer of your house has decided to back out of the transaction and has left[...]

Changes to the Condominium Act, 1998 (Condo Act) have been pending for some time now, however, the wait seems to be over according to an[...]

From mandatory masks to mandatory lockdowns, few people could have pictured just how far-reaching the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic would be. Most recently, Ontario[...]

As housing prices and rental rates continue to increase, affordable housing is becoming more of an issue in major cities. Municipalities are constantly searching for[...]

Whether or not land transfer tax applies in a transaction can be a very fact specific determination. In a “normal” purchase or sale where the[...]