Real Estate Financing: Annotated Precedents - Print

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 this resource, you will be able to:

• 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
• precedent 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• added language to collateral documents precedents allowing for counterparts and electronic execution; modernized outdated signature blocks allowing for flexibility based on circumstances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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CLEBC Legal Editor
L. Joy Tataryn
jtataryn@cle.bc.ca

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