Real Estate Law and Construction Law

The Law Commission has issued an interim statement on the reform of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (the Act).

Since 2022, Zown Realty Inc. ("Zown") has provided Canadians with an easy, fast and comprehensive app to support those looking to buy or sell real estate. Zown recently expanded into the United States and has already seen early success.

The Competition Bureau (Bureau) has released its finalized property control guidelines (Guidelines) outlining the Bureau's ongoing approach to enforcing competition...

Some caveats registered on the title can create obstacles to the conveyancing process in a mortgagee power of sale,.

Part 31 of the Civil Procedure Rules concerns the disclosure and inspection of documents in civil litigation. In summary, a party discloses a document by stating that the document exists or has existed. A party to whom a document has been disclosed has a right to inspect that document except where, amongst other things, the party disclosing the document has a right or a duty to withhold inspection of it.

A judgment delivered on 23 April 2012 stated that in a Settlement Agreement, inclusion of the phrase "full and final settlement in respect of any and all outstanding matters" was, on the facts, sufficient to exclude liability for defects.

In a recent decision clarifying the statutory framework governing immovable property transactions in India, the Supreme Court in Vinod Infra Developers Ltd. v. Mahaveer Lunia & Ors...

The first PayProp Rental Index of 2025 has confirmed what many landlords suspected from the flurry of "LET BY" boards: average national rents grew 5.6 percent year-on-year in Q1...

Prescribed threshold for annual rent under the Retail and Commercial Leases Act 1995 (SA) (Act) has been increased.

HRB building control approval applications under the new approval process, known as Gateway 2, have been facing criticism for the significant delays which have a knock on effect to construction projects.

In this edition, we look at the UK Government's 10 year Infrastructure Strategy and whether the "Washington effect" has trumped the "Brussels effect" in relation to ESG regulation.

Our first article in this series discussed the reasons and benefits of performing project audits. This follow-up article discusses the types of audits and ties back to the first article's specific reasons for each audit.