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, 2026

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 2026 Update include:

• Aboriginal title: derivation, nature, and scope, constitutional protection, reconciliation requirement, duty to consult and accommodate, effect of fee simple interests, limits of title insurance, unconstitutional Crown grants in Cowichan Tribes v. Canada (2025) (BCSC)
• BCCA clarification of scope of Shimco (holdback) lien
• disclosure statements: BCCA on knowledge of seller with prior realtor experience; BCREA's new "Property No-Disclosure Statement"
• BCREA's new "Realtors Disclosure of Material Latent Defects" form
• provincial sales tax applicability to real estate-related professional services
• BCCA on clarity requirement of CPS contractual terms
• temporary GST rebate for eligible "first-time home buyers" on newly constructed or substantially renovated homes acquired for use as primary residence
• reporting requirements for deposits held in lawyers' trust accounts; legislative amendments deeming a "bare trust" an express trust for purposes of enhanced reporting requirements
• BCFSA's new IRIS secure online portal for REDMA filings and Strata Property Act schedules
• effective dates for return filing requirements with repeal of federal Underused Housing Tax Act and related regulations
• enhanced property transfer tax exemption for transfers of new purpose-built rental housing
• owner developer requirement to fund first depreciation report for new strata corporations with five or more strata lots

Discover all of our Real Estate resources here

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

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