If your situation involves real estate law or a neighbour dispute in Quebec, our lawyers in Québec City and Lévis can help you.
The expertise of Verreau Dufresne in this area allows us to provide legal opinions, advise you and represent you before the courts, doing everything possible to resolve your dispute quickly and efficiently, before a trial is held. Feel free to contact us for more information.
We step in to resolve your dispute:
- Purchase and sale of buildings
- Residential and commercial leases
- Co-ownership (syndicate of co-owners)
- Servitudes, rights of way and landlocked land
- Warranties
- Obtaining permits
- Neighbour relations
- Housing cooperatives
- Professional liability of real estate brokers
- Breach of a promise to purchase a building (refusal to sign the deed of sale)
- Boundary determination
- Administrative Housing Tribunal (formerly the Régie du logement)
- Contesting a rent increase
- Eviction
- Lease disputes
- Landlord-tenant disputes
- Repossession of a dwelling
In Quebec, real estate law and neighbour disputes are governed by the Civil Code of Québec and by a large number of specific statutes.
Buying or renting immovable property (land, a house, a dwelling, a condo) brings together, depending on the case, sellers and buyers, landlords and tenants, or co-owners and their syndicate.
This relationship is generally based on a contract, whether written or verbal. The seller and buyer sign a promise to purchase and a deed of sale, landlords and tenants sign a lease, and co-owners sign a declaration of co-ownership.
These contracts provide that the signatories have commitments and obligations toward one another and that they agree to comply with certain rules or practices.
Beyond these commitments, owners or tenants of a property must also maintain good relations with their neighbours. Unfortunately, some people may act in bad faith or wrongly believe that they can exercise their rights at the expense of their neighbours’ rights.
Most disputes arising from these relationships fall within the broad area of law we call real estate and neighbour disputes. Indeed, the Civil Code of Québec and certain specific statutes set out general rules governing these relationships.
Lawyers in Québec City and Lévis
A competent lawyer in real estate law and neighbour disputes understands the importance of your real estate assets and the potential consequences of the outcome of your file on your financial situation. They propose creative solutions during negotiations and have particular skills before the courts when court intervention is needed.
