A guide for Ontario property owners
Understanding Expropriation in Ontario
A practical guide to the process, property impacts and compensation.
Learning that your property may be needed for a road, transit line or other public project can raise difficult questions. What is being taken? Can you continue using your property? How will its value be assessed?
Expropriation can involve an entire property, part of a property, or specific rights over or beneath the land. Understanding the proposed acquisition is the first step toward assessing its effect on you and your property.
This guide explains the main issues in plain language and helps you identify the questions to discuss with your professional advisers.
Explore the guide
Understanding Compensation
Learn how the value of the interest acquired and other potentially eligible losses are assessed.
Read the guidePartial Property Takings
Understand why losing a strip of land can affect more than the area being acquired.
Read the guidePermanent & Temporary Easements
Explore what it means when an authority acquires rights to use your property while you retain ownership.
Read the guideHave you received a notice?
Keep the notice, acquisition plan and related correspondence together. Note any deadlines and seek advice early. An expropriation lawyer can explain the legal process, while an appraiser can assess the valuation issues and potential effects on your property.
How gsi can help
gsi provides real estate appraisal and land use planning advice to help assess the interest being acquired and the potential impact on the remaining property. Depending on the assignment, this may include reviewing the authority’s appraisal, assessing development potential and preparing an independent opinion of value.