British Columbia Real Estate Practice Manual--ONLINE

A lawyer's day-to-day guide to conveyancing

This publication is essential for: lawyers looking for guidance on practice and procedure issues arising from conveyancing in BC

Current to: April 1, 2025

Although an efficient conveyancing practice may involve delegation to support staff, lawyers are ultimately responsible for ensuring a conveyance is properly managed and advice is sound. In addition to complete coverage of the necessary stages of a conveyance, British Columbia Real Estate Practice Manual guides you through practice issues you are most likely to confront that require your expertise, including discussion of real estate licensee regulation, tax considerations for both buyers and sellers, undertakings, and collapsing deals. Mainly focused on residential property, this resource also provides a summary of considerations in commercial conveyances.

With an online subscription to British Columbia Real Estate Practice Manual, your firm will be able to:

• conveniently access detailed guidance at any time and from any location, search for relevant information, link directly to significant legislation, case law, and websites, and download precedents
  
• quickly spot and avoid common conveyancing practice errors and mistakes
  
• refer to statutes and cases to start your investigation of any substantive law issues that arise
  
• access over 125 conveyancing forms and precedents to save you time

Subscribe today and be confident in your conveyances! View a sample from this book!

Highlights of the 2025 Update include:

• updated information on home flipping tax and federal flipped property tax rule
• updated guidance on preventing funds transfer fraud
• new case law on licensee breaches of fiduciary duty
• licensees' records retention obligations
• expansion of licensees' administrative penalty framework
• Haida Recognition Act recognizing Haida Nation's Aboriginal title to entirety of Haida Gwaii, staged transition to shared jurisdiction
• underused housing tax expansion of "excluded owner" definition
• expanded discussion of purpose-built rental housing enhanced GST rebate
• Contract of Purchase and Sale inclusion of GST in purchase price
• sample clauses allowing vendor and purchaser to opt out of GST-inclusive purchase price clause
• updated strata depreciation report requirements
• NV Highway Properties Ltd. v. 1155204 B.C. Ltd. (2025) (BCCA) implications
• Competition Act amendments targeting competitor property controls restricting commercial leases
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Online subscribers can purchase a print copy of British Columbia Real Estate Practice Manual for 20% off its regular price.

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CLEBC Legal Editor
L. Joy Tataryn
jtataryn@cle.bc.ca

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Chapters

1. Preliminary Matters on a Conveyance File

2. Real Estate Licensees

3. The Purchase Contract

4. Tax Considerations in Real Estate Transactions

5. Searches and Investigations in Real Estate Transactions

6. Commercial Real Estate Transactions

7. Title to Real Property in British Columbia

8. Statements of Adjustments

9. Undertakings in Real Estate Transactions

10. Other Closing Documents in Real Estate Transactions

11. Closing Procedures

12. The Collapsing Real Estate Deal: Practical Advice and Remedies

Checklists

Forms and Precedents

Tables 
Case Table
Statutes and Related Material Table
Index

Editorial Board
Neil R. Davie — Sampson Davie Fane Volpiana LLP, Vancouver
Craig W. Shirreff — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Greg Umbach — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver

Authors
Scott J. Anderson — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Sarah Batut — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Damon J. Chisholm — McMillan LLP, Vancouver
Jude Chow — Real Estate Errors and Omissions Insurance Corporation, Vancouver
Jordanna Cytrynbaum — Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Vancouver
Alexander Demner — Thorsteinssons LLP, Vancouver
Laura Forseille — BC Financial Services Authority, Vancouver
Gabrielle Guarino — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Christopher J.A. Johnston — Real Estate Errors and Omissions Insurance Corporation, Vancouver
Sherry Kooner — Lawyers Indemnity Fund/Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Desiree Lee — BC Financial Services Authority, Vancouver
Richard Lord — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Gillian S.J. Piggott — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Logan Rogers — Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Vancouver
Scott D. Smythe — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Marlon T. Song — Lawyers Indemnity Fund/Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Zheting Su — Thorsteinssons LLP, Vancouver
Liza Volpiana — Sampson Davie Fane Volpiana LLP, Vancouver
Edward L. Wilson — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Adrian Zee — Thorsteinssons LLP, Vancouver