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PROPERTY
Peter Bowal
Haskayne School of Business
University of Calgary
THE WORLD OF PROPERTY
Movability is defining criterion
Personal
Real
- purchase and sale
- registration of interests
Tangible Intangible
- co-ownership
- gifts - trusts
- estates and interests - intellectual property
- builders liens - matrimonial property
- trademarks
- easements (rights of way) - bailment - copyrights
- leases - patents
- mortgage - finders and wild animals
- industrial designs
- minerals and water rights - purchase and sale of chattels
- other legal rights
- public control - interests in the property of
- property taxes others (PPSA) - confidential information
- zoning and planning
- subdivision
- land use and development
- expropriation
- environmental and pollution regulation
- heritage designation
- building codes
Tenancy in Common
can sell interest
Certificate of Title
registered owner of what estate
legal descriptions versus municipal addresses
subject to what interests and encumbrances?
first to register has priority
much useful information on copy of Certificate
how to obtain?
MORTGAGES
a contract transferring an interest in land from the
mortgagor to the mortgagee
legally considered both contract and land
down payment vs. principal amount of mortgage
MORTGAGE OPTIONS
assumption of the existing mortgage(s)
assumption statement
advantages
disadvantages
apply for a new mortgage
how much is being borrowed?
conventional mortgage (up to 75% of purchase price)
high ratio mortgage (up to 100% of purchase price)
for owner-occupied residences only
must be CMHC-insured
ARRANGING A NEW MORTGAGE
Real Property Report
compliance certificate
mortgage options
term of the mortgage = contract period of loan
open or closed
rights of pre-payment
payout statement (similar to assumption statement)
interest rates: fixed versus variable
MORTGAGES
amortization period
for calculating rate of pay down
blended payments: interest, principal, taxes
first, second, third, etc. mortgages
discharge of mortgage
MORTGAGE REMEDIES
mortgagors equity in the property
remedies for nonpayment (from contract):
equity of redemption
suing on the covenant to pay
foreclosure
judicial sale
deficiencies
LEASES
also called tenancies
commercial leases business to business
residential: governed by legislation
numerous tenant protections
tenancy need to be in writing?
non-discrimination
delivery of written lease
QUESTIONS OR
COMMENTS?