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Make Sure You Know What You’re Ordering In my unique role, I interact often with prospective clients who are trying to decide on a law firm for their upcoming real estate transaction. Many are first-time homebuyers. Almost all have questions: ‘Who’s the best lawyer?’, ‘What’s a good price?’, ‘Is Land Transfer Tax a scam?’, ‘How […]

(AND NO, LAND TRANSFER TAX IS NOT A SCAM) While a typical right-of-passage of adulthood has traditionally included the first purchase of a home, skyrocketing prices, lack of inventory, bidding wars and income insecurity have made this milestone incredibly challenging for today’s first-time home-buying demographic – arguably more now than any time in the past

PURCHASING A HOME IS ALWAYS A MEANINGFUL AND SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE FOR FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS. STILL, SOMETIMES THE EXCITEMENT THAT SURROUNDS A HOMEBUYER’S TRANSACTION CLOUDS THE REALITIES OF SOME OF THE UNEXPECTED COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PURCHASING A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY FOR THE FIRST TIME. ONE OF THESE UNEXPECTED COSTS IS THE DREADED LAND TRANSFER TAX (LLT). LTT is

It is well established by the Courts that an Employer has an almost unfettered right to terminate the employment of an employee. However, in the event of a termination of employment on a without cause basis (meaning no fault of the employee) the debate over the amount of notice or pay in lieu thereof required

The closing date is usually the final step in the purchase or sale of a home.  However, the closing very often (even more so since the onset of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic) may be required to be extended. The completion (or lack thereof) of the real estate transaction on the originally agreed upon closing date