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Can the activities of your borrowers or tenants lead to seizure of your property?

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 8 2008

Would the Canadian government ever try to seize investment property, mortgage investment security or any other valuable assets, even from law-abiding taxpayers?

The Supreme Court of Canada’s new approach to interjurisdictional immunity and paramountcy

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 27 2007

On May 31, 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada released two long-awaited and important decisions Canadian Western Bank v. Alberta and British Columbia (Attorney General) v. Lafarge Canada Inc

Real estate title fraud and insurance: recent Ontario changes

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 16 2007

Over the past few years Ontario has been hit by a wave of fraudulent real estate transactions involving identity fraud; that is, people either forging or fraudulently conveying or mortgaging properties using the identity of the registered owner

New anti-money-laundering regulations regarding real estate developers

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2008

On February 20, 2008, amendments to regulations associated with the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (the Act) were finalized and published

Can the holder of a GSA exercise real property remedies?

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 15 2009

On occasion a lender may discover that a borrower owns real property which was not previously disclosed to it and therefore not subjected to a specific mortgage registered under the Land Titles Act or (increasingly rarely) under the Registry Act

Looking beyond title fraudulent mortgages

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 10 2009

The British Columbia Court of Appeal recently heard two appeals involving fraudulent mortgages

The effect of the new mortgage rules on residential real estate sales

  • Harper Grey LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 24 2011

Changes to the mortgage qualification rules could have a significant impact on residential real estate sales, particularly condominium pre-sales

Credit check

  • Miller Thomson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 2 2009

In these volatile economic times, what security should prudent landlords get to assist in recovery in the event of insolvency or other lease defaults by tenants?

The Open for Business Act: Bill 68 An act to promote Ontario as open for business by amending or repealing certain acts - enacted as: Chapter 16 of the Statutes of Ontario, 2010

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 19 2011

Bill 68 An Act to promote Ontario as open for business by amending or repealing certain Acts (the “Open for Business Act”)1 received Royal Assent on October 25, 2010. It is an omnibus Act which contains more than 100 amendments to existing legislation spread out across 10 ministries

Are charities inadvertently acting as mortgage brokers or administrators?

  • Miller Thomson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 27 2011

Ever since Anglo-Saxon times, lenders have advanced money on the security of land