Licensees Liable for Not Determining Seller’s Non-resident Status? #493
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On March 25, 2017, several local newspapers ran a story with the alarming headline, “House buyer beware: Landmark court ruling will shake real-estate industry.”1 The story referred to a February 10, 2017 BC Supreme Court judgment2 and left licensees wondering about this decision’s impact on their duties to ascertain the Canada residency status of sellers for the …