Real Estate Financing: Annotated Precedents--ONLINE

Document your real estate financing deal with ease

This book is essential for: lawyers working with real estate financing agreements from the perspective of the lender or the borrower

Current to: November 1, 2025

Financing construction projects is complicated and involves many aspects of corporate and commercial law. Real Estate Financing: Annotated Precedents offers you over 20 precedents for commitment letters, mortgages, general security agreements, covenants, collateral documents, and more. Complete with commentary, practice tips, case law, and legislation, this resource gives you an overview of common challenges encountered in construction financing and how to respond to or circumvent them.

With an online subscription to Real Estate Financing: Annotated Precedents, 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
• draft appropriate financing documents to support a development deal
  
• understand when and why each document is used
  
• help your lending clients manage risk
  
• develop strategy to help your clients negotiate advantageous financing for their projects 

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Highlights of the 2026 Update:

• revisions to Criminal Code criminal interest rate provision and commercial loans exception; annotations regarding effects on drafting commitment letters, construction mortgages, and collateral documents
• recedent commitment letter provisions for delivery to lender of covenantors' and guarantors' financial statements and borrower's accounting officer statements
• precedent commitment letter provision for negative covenant prohibiting borrower payment of management fees without lender's consent
• added language to collateral documents precedents allowing for counterparts and electronic execution; modernized outdated signature blocks allowing for flexibility based on circumstances
• updated trust property financing precedents
• updated discussion of Environmental Management Act exemptions, now including civil forfeiture exemption
• updated description of site disclosure statement submission and site information request application form procedures
• new title for "Priority, Subordination, and Standstill" chapter and updated drafting and annotations

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Online subscribers can purchase a print copy of Real Estate Financing: Annotated Precedents 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. Construction Financing

2. Construction Financing Commitment Letters

3. Construction Financing Mortgages

4. General Security Agreement

5. Additional Covenants and Guarantees to Mortgage Loan

6. Collateral Documents to Real Estate Financing Transaction

7. Trust Property Financing

8. Environmental Indemnity

9. Priority, Subordination, and Standstill

Tables
Case Table
Statutes and Related Material Table
Index

Editorial Board
Rosemary E. John — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Nabila Pirani — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver

Authors
Nick Carlson — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Sergio C. Custodio — Bennett Jones LLP, Vancouver
Parisa Hurst — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Rosemary E. John — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Selina M. Lee-Andersen — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Tony Magre — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver
Cherie Mah — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Karin Mistlberger — McMillan LLP, Vancouver
Adam Palmer — McMillan LLP, Vancouver
Jill R. Pereira — McMillan LLP, Vancouver
Laura J.M. Smith — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
James E. Sutcliffe — McMillan LLP, Vancouver