Who Owns the Beach? Riparian Rights, Shore Road Allowances and Water Lots in Ontario
The lakebed is the Crown’s; the 66-foot strip may be too. What riparian rights are, how a shore road allowance cuts you off from the lake, how title settles it.
Land, Title and Boundaries
Surveys, easements, encroachments, heritage designation and conservation authority regulation in Ontario.
Shoreline Erosion and Your Property Line: What Happens When the Lake Takes Land
Your survey says one thing, the shoreline another. Accretion, erosion, who owns the new edge, what you may build to stop it, what to demand before offering.
Fence Disputes With Neighbours in Ontario: Boundaries, Costs and By-laws
Who owns the fence, who pays to replace it, how high it can be, and what to do if it’s on the wrong side of the line. Practical steps for Toronto homeowners.
Joint Tenancy vs Tenants in Common in Ontario: Which Way to Hold Title
Survivorship, unequal shares, estates and what happens in a separation. How the two ways of holding title differ and who each one suits.
Severing a Lot in Ontario: What Consent Really Costs and Takes
Last updated 7 September 2026. Written by Jatin Dua, Broker of Record at RE/MAX Quantum Realty, 799 The Queensway, Etobicoke.
Buying a Luxury Home Without a Survey: What Can Go Wrong
Title insurance is not a survey. Encroachments, mutual driveways and easements surface the day you try to build, and on a luxury lot that is the most expensive day to find out.
Conservation authority regulated land in the west GTA: 30 metres, 15 m², and the permit that blocks your building permit
O. Reg. 41/24 replaced thirty-six separate conservation authority regulations on 1 April 2024, deleted “pollution or the conservation of land” from the permit test, and cut TRCA’s wetland buffer from 120 metres to 30. The exemptions, the fees at TRCA and Credit Valley, the section 30.7 removal order, and the 2027 amalgamation that abolishes both authorities.
Heritage designation in Ontario: the 1 January 2027 deadline, and why a title search will not find a listing
Section 27(16) of the Ontario Heritage Act gives municipalities until 1 January 2027 to designate legacy listings or remove them. Toronto says roughly 4,000 properties are affected. The difference between listed and designated, the nine criteria and the one-versus-two rule, the 60-day and 90-day and 120-day clocks, and the $60.00 search that finds what a title search cannot.
Mutual driveways in Etobicoke and Toronto: no statute defines them, and the parking pad rules are stricter than you think
The phrase “mutual driveway” appears in no Ontario statute. The only government definition is in Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 918, and it points at a right of way. The width rules, why the front yard parking chapter does not reach Etobicoke, the 2026 fees, and the Planning Act provision that can make an informal split of the strip convey nothing at all.
Encroachments and possessory claims under Land Titles: the date that decides everything
Ten years under section 4 of the Real Property Limitations Act, extinguishment under section 15, and the bar in section 51(1) of the Land Titles Act. Why a fence dispute in Toronto turns on the date the parcel was converted, why Ontario has no encroachment statute at all, and the four statutory obstacles to a Land Titles Assurance Fund claim.