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In a recent judgement of the Court of Quebec, Small Claims Division, which rendered a simultaneous decision on seven separate requests from co-owners against their co-ownership syndicate and its insurance company 1, the Court reaffirmed the principle by which decisions of the syndicate on major work from the contingency funds and the issuance of a special contribution levied, should not be adopted by a majority vote of the assembly of co-owners.

The number of home sales processed through the MLS® Systems of Canadian real estate Boards and Associations fell 3.1 per cent in January 2015 compared to December 2014.

January sales were down from the previous month in about 60 per cent of all local housing markets. On a provincial basis, the monthly decline largely reflected fewer sales in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

We often focus on the risks in the event of death without a will, of a spouse who is not married or living in civil union. Remember, common law spouses, regardless of the duration of their union, or even if you have children together, are not successors (potential heirs) under the law. So, in case of death without a will, a common law spouse does not inherit from his/her deceased partner.

Contractors took out building permits worth $7.1 billion in December, up 7.7% from November. This followed a 13.6% decline the previous month. The increase in December resulted mostly from higher construction intentions in the non-residential sector in Alberta and British Columbia.

The total value of building permits for 2014 was up 5.2% from 2013 to $85.1 billion.

Selon la Société canadienne d’hypothèques et de logement (SCHL), la tendance des mises en chantier d’habitations dans les centres urbains du Québec se chiffrait à 31 413 en janvier, comparativement à 31 992 en décembre. Cette tendance correspond à la moyenne mobile  de six mois  du nombre mensuel désaisonnalisé et annualisé (DDA) de mises en chantier d’habitations.

Pour plusieurs, nous sommes dans la période de reconduction des baux. Malheureusement, les propriétaires n’ont généralement pas la possibilité d’envoyer un avis de non-reconduction du bail. En effet, sauf exception, les propriétaires doivent nécessairement passer par la résiliation du bail au moyen d’un recours à la Régie du logement.

In a recent judgment of the Court of Quebec, Small Claims division¹, the Court reminded a syndicate of co-ownership that, in the absence of an express provision in its declaration of co-ownership, it is not up to the co-owners to pay the cost of replacing their windows, but rather to the syndicate using its contingency fund.

Smoking and cultivating cannabis becomes increasingly part of everyday life in an apartment building. Many owners think that by that fact alone, given the illegal nature of the matter, it makes the termination of the lease automatic, which is unfortunately not so simple.

Les municipalités ont délivré pour 6,6 milliards de dollars de permis de bâtir en novembre, en baisse de 13,8 % par rapport à octobre, et ce, après avoir observé deux augmentations mensuelles consécutives. La diminution enregistrée en novembre s'expliquait par des replis généralisés dans les secteurs non résidentiel et résidentiel de plusieurs provinces.