If you live in an urban subdivision built in the past ten or 15 years, chances are the borders of your property are exactly where they appear to be – right down the fence line and to the edge of the street. There is an extremely low likelihood that part of your deck...
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Possession: still sometimes 9/10 of the law
As I have discussed before, nearly all properties in Ontario are in the Land Titles system. Under that system, if you try to claim property from your neighbour, you are barred. However, there is an exception: if you reached the threshold for a claim, which is either...
Survey says
Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: what happens if there is a mistake in the survey and I don't find out until after closing? 20 years ago, when you bought property in Ontario, your lawyer would have done a full certification of title. There would...