What Is That Real Estate Lawyer Doing, Anyway?

2020-11-12T16:34:50-05:00

May 11, 2018 By: Jennifer Foster My first property purchase was fourteen acres of a vacant, rural, wooded lot north west of Kingston. A river crossed over the northeast corner, separating the land into two pieces. The parcel across the river was pretty much unusable—it was landlocked and surrounded by conservation land, ensuring that we would never be looking at a condo or any other unwholesome development. As Torontonians, this seemed like paradise found! I wasn't practising real estate law at the time and I don’t remember much about the transaction except that we visited a lawyer and signed a lot [...]