Starting in 2016, the real estate profession has seen numerous regulatory changes, including increased fines, new regulations, greater involvement from the Real Estate Council of BC.
Posts tagged with “Breach of Duty”
Legally Speaking Learning from an RECBC Discipline Decision #535 
Legally Speaking Consequences For Breach Of Fiduciary Duties #491
S was the owner-operator of both a real estate brokerage and a mortgage company which intermingled their business enterprises…
Legally Speaking “Limited Dual Agency Or No Agency,” There Is A Different #446
A recent case illustrates the pitfalls awaiting brokerages and REALTORS® when choosing to act as a limited dual agent…
Legally Speaking Limited Dual Agency Can Still be a Risky Business #427
A recent BC Supreme Court decision awarded damages against a REALTOR® for breach of fiduciary duty while acting as a limited dual agent…
Legally Speaking Small Claims Court Actions – Three Cases Against REALTORS® for Breaches of Duty #368
The Small Claims Act is intended to encourage the just, speedy, inexpensive and simple resolution of claims less than $10,000…
Legally Speaking Negligence, Duty Owed to Buyers by Engineer, Health and Building Inspectors and Developer #286
A recent decision, whose release coincided with the increasing attention being paid to the problem of leaky condominiums…
Legally Speaking Commission Lost by Licensee Who Introduced Purchaser #221
As the real estate industry in British Columbia moves toward the adoption of buyers’ agency as an alternative to sub-agency, it is interesting to read decisions in which the licensee’s claim…
Legally Speaking Actions Against Licensees – Negligence and Interfering With Contractual Relations #152
Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning “brazen nerve”…
Legally Speaking Soil Contaminated Sites #138
What do gas stations with underground tanks, sawmills, pulp mills, paint manufacturing shops, dry-cleaners, shipyards, truck parking yards for moving or fuel companies, junkyards, farms and…
Legally Speaking Damages in Lieu of Commission #62
The advantages of a listing agreement which fully describes the basis upon which a commission is earned and the obligations of the owner toward the listing agent, in order to support a claim for commission or for…
Legally Speaking Changes to the Postal Service Means Businesses Will Continue to Use Couriers for Date Sensitive Mail #12
The transfer of the postal service to a Crown Corporation may improve relations at the post office, and it may even improve service in the long run…
