British Columbia Real Estate Development Practice Manual - Print

Your guide to real estate development law, practice, and procedure

This publication is essential for: lawyers advising or representing developers or municipalities in real estate development matters

Current to: January 1, 2021

To effectively serve developer and municipal clients, you need a strong command of the legal principles as well as an understanding of the real estate development process. With the British Columbia Real Estate Development Practice Manual, you have a concise guide to each phase of the development process, from land acquisition to financing and marketing the project, with discussion of the unique planning and regulatory environment in the City of Vancouver, and considerations for development on First Nations lands.

With this resource, you will be able to:

• understand the real estate development process in the context of current legal developments to effectively serve your clients
  
• save time searching for Vancouver-specific real estate development procedures and regulations
  
• quickly access a collection of over 70 real estate development forms and precedents

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Highlights of the 2021 Update include:

• foreign buyers tax exemption for certain general partners
• Land Owner Transparency Registry and LOTA requirements
• Wastech, M. Callow: good faith duty implications for contract termination, honest contractual performance, conditions precedent (2020, 2021) (SCC)
• amendments to contaminated site legislation, replacement of site profile with site disclosure statement
• temporary extension of early marketing periods in response to COVID-19 pandemic
• Vavilov: standard of judicial review for approving officer and council decisions (2019) (SCC)
• legislative changes to agricultural land reserve regime
• amendments to heritage preservation legislation
• amendments to riparian protection legislation
• enforceability of positive covenants that run with the land (2020) (SCC)
• power of local governments to restrict users versus use of land through zoning (2020) (BCCA)
• recent BCCA decisions on attacking City of Vancouver bylaws and resolutions

Discover all of our Real Estate resources here

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

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