Real Estate Buying/Selling Guide for Ontario

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

This guide was first published in 1973, and the fifth edition was available in 1981. Restricted, as the title indicates, to Ontario, the book covers: paying for a house, contracts, selecting and buying, forms of ownership, selling a home, what the lawyer does (the longest part of the book, at 70 pages; yet this is all stuff that a purchaser or seller could do himself), taxes, expropriation, foreclosure, Canadian non-residency, and investments in mortgages. Nineteen samples of forms follow. There is good advice here, and the book is relatively up to date with the new Family Law Reform Act (but out of date concerning the RHOSP, which died in May 1985 with Finance Minister Wilson’s federal budget). An index would have been useful, for cross-references.