BC senior wins injunction allowing her to sell home
A BC senior who has spent more than $3.4 million on the construction of a home on the Sunshine Coast has been granted an injunction against the former co-owners of the property, who have contributed only $115,000 to the project.
Maria Sandberg Jones and the two men she bought the property with in May 2020 – Leslie Thomson and Andrew Press – are involved in ongoing claims and counterclaims against each other in BC Supreme Court.
While the litigation is still ongoing, Justice Anita Chan granted Jones an injunction earlier this month that requires Thomson and Press to vacate the property, which will allow Jones to sell it and recover some of her investment.
The ownership arrangement
According to Chan’s decision, which was issued Jan. 10 and posted online this week, Jones is the sole registered owner of the property.
When the trio first purchased the land in Gibsons, this was not the case. Initially, Jones was registered as owning an undivided one-quarter interest in the property, with 1251078 BC Ltd. – a numbered company controlled by Thomson and Press – owning the rest.
The plan was to build a home on the property that would have a separate