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The TitlePLUS department recently launched a new Facebook page “TitlePLUS Home Buying Guide – Canada.”

The page helps educate home buyers on the home buying and mortgaging processes. With checklists, tools and resources, the page will be a one-stop shop for people looking for useful information on not only home buying and ownership, but also home maintenance, refinancing and even decorating tips.

With links to its popular “Locate a Lawyer” feature and articles promoting the role of lawyers, this is just another way the TitlePLUS program works to highlight the value lawyers bring to real estate and other legal transactions.

Help build this page and spread the word. If you are already on Facebook, visit www.facebook.com/titleplushomebuyingguide and hit “Like.” Feel free to post content that you think will enhance the message of the page. With your name associated with the posting, this is indirect marketing for you. Share the page with your colleagues, staff, friends and home buyer clients.

The TitlePLUS department is also tweeting.

The target audience for TitlePLUS Twitter feeds are real estate lawyers. Follow @TitlePLUSCanada for timely updates on real estate-related information and updates on TitlePLUS title insurance.

Do you tweet about real estate matters? Follow @TitlePLUSCanada; they will then follow you and can retweet your most interesting posts to a growing audience.

The Residential Real Estate Transactions Practice Guidelines, adopted by the Law Society of Upper Canada in January, 2007 (the “Practice Guidelines”), provide guidance to lawyers in residential practice in a world where title insurance has become the norm. The Law Society of Upper Canada Real Estate Checklist (first adopted in the 1980s and revised in the mid-1990s) has never been updated to take title insurance into account. The Law Society’s Rules of Professional Conduct contain some mandatory requirements relating to lawyers’ use of title insurance, but these regulatory amendments made in 1997 do not really guide the lawyer aspiring to use title insurance in his/her practice in a positive, client-centred way. The Practice Guidelines thus provide useful insights and recommendations for the practising real estate Bar, given the reality of real estate conveyancing in the new millennium.
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