British Columbia Real Estate Practice Manual - Print

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 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

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

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