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Obligations of real estate brokers and agents: High-risk areas for pyrite
The importance to inform their clients selling and buying properties located in these risk zones of the problems related to pyrite and to recommend the specific actions described in this text.
Pyrite: Don't panic, but keep your eyes open
To obtain a better understanding of the pyrite phenomenon, unknown to the public only a few months ago, representatives of the Greater Montreal Real Estate Board and the ACAIQ visited a home in Saint-Bruno. Viewed from the sidewalk, nothing really differentiates it from the neighbouring houses. Inside, on the other hand...
Survey protocol concerning pyrite swelling
The Comité technique québécois d'étude des problèmes de gonflement associés à la pyrite has finally published a survey protocol on existing residential buildings. A list of the laboratories capable of conducting this type of survey has also been published.
Real estate brokers and agents must be familiar with the region they are working in, so they will be able to provide purchasers and vendors with adequate information about cases of swelling of backfill caused by pyrite that have been reported.
Two standard clauses: The first clause can be used when no written analysis, performed by the seller, exists at the time of the Promise to Purchase; the second clause can be used when the seller has a written report in his possession, resulting from an analysis he has requested, prior to presentation of a Promise to Purchase.
Pyrite: The analysis of back-fill should be done by a recognized laboratory
The importance of doing business with recognized laboratories when analysis to determine whether or not a building is affected by a problem of swelling of back-fill caused by pyrite, is required as part of a real estate transaction.
