Residential Real Estate Conference 2025

Course Chairs
Timothy J. Lack — Redpoint Law LLP, Vancouver
Lisa Niro — Bell Alliance LLP, Vancouver

About the Course Chairs

Tim Lack has been the responsible lawyer for over 8,000 real estate transactions, acting for banks, credit unions and many other institutional and private lenders. His work with private lenders is extensive and he has been asked to provide expert opinions on private lending issues for litigation lawyers. He has lectured on several occasions to other lawyers on this subject.

On the real estate side of his practice, Tim has been involved in residential and commercial conveyancing, land assemblies, office and industrial leasing, including landlord and tenant disputes. As part of his real estate development work, Tim has counselled clients from acquisition, through development and to final sales on condo projects, including mixed use and hotel developments.

Tim represents hundreds of clients in all areas of business and commercial deals and is well experienced in the issues surrounding the purchase and sale of businesses.

Finally, his wills and estates practice continues to grow and Tim prides himself on providing delicate and trusted advice to his clients in this area of law.

Lisa Niro, the managing partner at Bell Alliance LLP, practices in the area of real estate. Having built a strong foundation in residential conveyancing, she now has a focus on commercial real estate transactions, commercial and private lending, development, and land assemblies. Lisa acts for developers, institutional and private lenders, as well as for individuals, corporations, and partnerships.

Before becoming a lawyer, Lisa worked as an urban planner and designer which allowed her to gain insight into the development industry and municipal approvals process.

Luncheon Speaker
Craig Keating — Vice President, Strategies 360 Canada, Vancouver

Faculty
Michael Drouillard — Drouillard Lawyers, Vancouver
Lindsay D. Goldberg — Fulton & Company Law Corporation, Vancouver
Paul Harden — Meridian Law Group, Vancouver
Noah M. Sarna — Thorsteinssons LLP, Vancouver and Toronto
Mahsa Shoar — LMN Law Group, New Westminster
Anna Solnickova, BBA, CPA, CGA, RI — Executive Officer, Real Estate Compensation Fund Corporation, Burnaby
K. Kathrine Uppal — Bleay Both Uppal LLP, Vancouver

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BC Real Estate Practice Manual

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, 2024

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 2024 Update include:

• short-term rental accommodations legislation
• repeal of remote affidavit witnessing for land title applications
• electronic execution of closing documents
• filing new transparency declarations and reports
• Surveyor of Taxes filing transparency declaration
• new trust reporting requirements on T3 return, purchase contract provisions for investment and interest reporting
• EV charging in strata, electrical planning reports
• new strata Form B requirements
• proposed legislation for First Nations acquiring, disposing of land, LTO registration
• proposed BC home flipping tax
• PTT relief, enhanced GST rebate for qualifying purpose-built rental housing
• 2023 tax year reprieve from bare trusts tax filing requirements

• two issues under the Residential Tenancy Act: obligations under the tenancy agreement, and responsibility for abandoned property
• regulations amended earlier this year dealing with the abandonment of personal value property