Conveyancing Deskbook--ONLINE

Legal support staff's step-by-step guide to conveyancing in BC

This publication is essential for: legal support staff that work with residential real estate conveyances

Current to: July 1, 2023

Conveyancing involves so many details that it is hard to keep track of all the tasks you need to complete. Conveyancing Deskbook offers you practical, step-by-step instructions for all tasks involved in transferring land in BC. With checklists for each step in the process, practice notes for acting for the purchaser and the lender, over 70 forms and precedents, and a glossary of common terms, this manual will guide you through a problem-free conveyance.

With an online subscription to Conveyancing Deskbook, 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
• understand the purpose and importance of each step in the conveyancing process
  
• confirm you haven't missed a step by consulting thorough checklists
  
• access a collection of conveyancing forms and precedents

Subscribe today and run your conveyancing files most effectively! View a sample from this book!

The 2023 Update of the Conveyancing Deskbook incorporates recent developments in real estate law and practice, including:

• Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management process
• real estate licensee disclosure requirement as to buyer's right of rescission
• updated list of BCFSA policy statements regarding developer's disclosure statements
• prohibition on strata rental restrictions and age restrictions (with specified exceptions) and repeal of Form J
• retirement of LTSA COVID-19 measures effective September 30, 2023
• Federal underused housing tax
• Federal financial consumer protection rules, including bank disclosure statement requirements for a credit agreement
• Federal Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act
• "cooling-off period" (buyer's right of rescission)
• remote witnessing of enduring power of attorney forms

Annual subscription rates are based on firm size. A monthly payment option is available.

Online subscribers can purchase a print copy of Conveyancing Deskbook for 30% off its regular price.

Discover all of our Real Estate resources here

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

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Chapters

1.  Introduction to Conveyancing

2.  First Steps in a Conveyance

3.  Reviewing the Real Property Purchase Contract

4.  Real Property Searches and Investigations

5.  Obtaining Further Instructions for the Conveyance

6.  Preparing Closing Documents in a Conveyance

7.  Lender Financing in a Conveyance

8.  Closing Procedures and Final Steps in Conveyancing

9.  Acting for the Vendor in a Conveyance

Forms and Precedents

Tables
Case Table
Statutes and Related Material Table
Index

Authors
Dick H.K. Chan — Spagnuolo & Company LLP, Coquitlam
Cassandra Enns — Farris LLP, Vancouver
Kaitlyn Sawyer — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver
Robert Spagnuolo — Spagnuolo & Company LLP, Coquitlam
Alysha Visram — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver