Develop strategies to recognize common and less common pitfalls in real estate matters, identify points of potential conflict, and protect yourself from liability. Enhance your capacity to serve clients and move transactions along. Topics include frequent contentious issues between lawyers for buyers and lawyers for sellers. This on-demand program was originally presented as an in-person program in October, 2020. Total running time is 1 hour, 18 minutes.

Unexpected issues can arise in seemingly straightforward real estate matters. Develop strategies to recognize common and less common pitfalls, identify points of potential conflict, and protect yourself from liability. Enhance your capacity to serve clients and move transactions along. This on-demand program was originally presented as an in-person program on October 24, 2020. Total running time is 5 hours, 34 minutes.

This paper canvasses 20 topics that may be of benefit to real estate lawyers, including foreign ownership of land, consolidation of titles, separation of titles, resulting interest transfers, fiats, consent of spouse when executing under a power of attorney, co-tenancy and dower, Surrogate Digital System, and more. This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Real Estate Conference program in Kananaskis on October 18 – 19, 2024.

This paper provides tools to negotiate through potential contentious real estate matters in the purchase contract. This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Residential Real Estate: Avoiding Problems that Lead to Conflict & Liability program in Lake Louise on October 24, 2020.