A floodplain or conservation authority designation does not stop you buying a property. It changes what you are allowed to do with it. Building, rebuilding, grading, filling and shoreline work inside a regulated area need a permit from the local conservation authority, and the authority can refuse.

Moving from Ottawa to Brockville means trading a composite MLS benchmark of $634,000 for one of $539,900, gaining roughly 4.8 months of resale inventory to browse instead of 3.5, and swapping a suburban commute across the city for a roughly 75-minute drive along the 401 and 416. That trade-off is re

In Ontario, fixtures stay with the house unless the agreement of purchase and sale excludes them. Chattels leave with the seller unless the agreement includes them. That is the default, and the agreement is where it actually gets settled. Rented or financed equipment is a third category. A water hea