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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

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

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

Landlords: considering waiving your right of distraint to facilitate your tenant’s financing?

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 16 2010

In these uncertain economic times, tenants looking for loans from financial institutions are facing stringent requirements

Minister of Finance launches consultations to help businesses obtain long-term mortgages

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 16 2010

The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, today released a consultation paper that proposes to give businesses more flexibility in negotiating mortgage terms with lenders

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

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?

Looking beyond title fraudulent mortgages

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

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

Gill v. Bucholtz: the British Columbia Court of Appeal and mortgage fraud

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2009

Two recent decisions of the British Columbia Court of Appeal have left lenders feeling unsettled about lending money to finance real property transactions

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