British Columbia Real Estate Practice Manual--ONLINE ONLY

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: March 1, 2020

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 this resource, you will be able to:

• 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

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

Highlights of the 2020 Update include:

• Web Filing, changes to certification requirements, remote witnessing of affidavits during COVID-19 pandemic
• Web Filing for Property Transfer Tax by Fall 2020
• strata insurance clause recommended by BCREA
• COVID-19 pandemic and force majeure clauses
• amendments to Vancouver Vacancy Tax Bylaw
• changes to CBA standard undertakings to permit electronic money transfers
• changes to practice and Law Society Rules regarding electronic funds transfers
• changes to client identification and verification rules effective January and April 2020
• beneficial ownership registry, Land Owner Transparency Act disclosure requirements and filings
• Business Corporations Act requirements for transparency register
• Forthcoming Environmental Act amendments altering site profile process
• brokerage holding deposit as stakeholder rather than agent
• new case law from BCCA and BCSC

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

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Chapters

1. Preliminary Matters

2. Real Estate Licensees

3. The Purchase Contract

4. Tax Considerations

5. Searches and Investigations

6. Commercial Real Estate

7. Title to Real Property

8. Statements of Adjustments

9. Undertakings

10. Other Closing Documents

11. Closing Procedures

12. The Collapsing Deal: A Practical Advice and Remedies

Checklists

Forms and Precedents

Tables 
Case Table
Statutes and Related Material Table
Index

Editorial Board
Neil R. Davie — Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver
Gayle Hunter — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver
Craig W. Shirreff — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver

Authors
Scott J. Anderson — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Sarah Batut — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Damon J. Chisholm — McMillan LLP, Vancouver
Sergio C. Custodio — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Jordanna Cytrynbaum — Whitelaw Twining LLP, Vancouver
Ryan Dix — Real Estate Errors and Omissions Insurance Corporation, Vancouver
Soraya M. Jamal — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Christopher J.A. Johnston — Real Estate Errors and Omissions Insurance Corporation, Vancouver
Mandeep Kalan — Real Estate Council of BC, Vancouver
Glenn Leung — Terra Law Corporation, Vancouver 
Christopher J.D. Miller — Terra Law Corporation, Vancouver 
Christopher J. Munroe — Roper Greyell LLP, Vancouver
Noah M. Sarna — Thorsteinssons LLP, Vancouver
Mark A. Schmidt — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Scott D. Smythe — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Marlon T. Song — Lawyers Indemnity Fund/Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Renita S. Swamy — Terra Law Corporation, Vancouver
Michael S. Ventresca — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver
Liza Volpiana — Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver
Edward L. Wilson — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Leslie W. Woo — Real Estate Council of BC, Vancouver