What are the requirements for a buyer to obtain damages for misrepresentation in a real estate transaction?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Raji v. Chattha, 2021 BCCRT 944 (CanLII):
28. The seller must have acted negligently or fraudulently in making the misrepresentation, the buyer must have reasonably relied on the misrepresentation to enter into the contract, and the reliance “must have been detrimental in the sense that damages resulted”: see Queen v. Cognos Inc., 1993 CanLII 146 (SCC), [1993] 1 SCR 87 at paragraph 110.
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