BC Real Estate Practice Manual

This publication is essential for: junior to intermediate lawyers in real estate practice, and helpful for seasoned practitioners.

Current to: March 1, 2013

A practical day-to-day guide to real estate conveyancing

This practical, day-to-day guide leads you quickly and completely through the necessary steps of a conveyance. The manual includes:

• thorough discussion of residential property, including searches and investigations
• summary chapter on commercial property transactions
• special considerations for strata lots
• discussion of lawyers' undertakings and professional responsibility issues
• the latest decisions on duties of real estate licensees
• full coverage of tax considerations for both residential and commercial property
• practical advice and remedies for a collapsing deal

Rounding out this all-in-one resource are more than 130 of the most common real estate forms and precedents, including essential land title office documents.

The book is updated annually. Subscriptions include online access with search capability and links to the full text of case law and legislation, and forms and precedents on CD-ROM.

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Highlights of the 2013 Update

• return to GST/PST system and transition rules
• new Law Society Code of Professional Conduct for British Columbia
• updated procedures for mandatory e-filing at land title office
• new British Columbia Family Law Act

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

CONTENTS
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Chapters
1. Preliminary Matters
2. Real Estate Licensees
3. The Purchase Contract
4. Tax Considerations
5. Searches and Investigations
6. Commercial Property
7. Title
8. Statements of Adjustments
9. Undertakings
10. Other Closing Documents
11. Closing Procedures
12. The Collapsing Deal: Practical Advice and Remedies

Glossary

Checklists
Client Identification and Verification
Residential Conveyance Procedure
Independent Legal Advice

Forms and Precedents
I. Preliminary Matters
II. Real Estate Licensees
III. The Purchase Contract
IV. Searches and Investigations
V. Title
VI. Statements of Adjustments
VII. Undertakings
VIII. Other Closing Documents
IX. Closing Procedures
X. The Collapsing Deal: Practical Advice and Remedies
XI. Electronic Forms

Tables
Case Table
Statute Table
References

Index

Features

• complete set of forms and precedents
• regular updates
• tables of cases and statutes
• comprehensive index
• glossary
• checklists
• convenient looseleaf format with tab indexing
• online access to electronic version with hyperlinks to primary law

Editorial Board
Douglas E. Bolton — Goodmans LLP, Vancouver
Randy G. Klarenbach — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Craig W. Shirreff — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Professor Mary Anne Waldron, QC — Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Victoria

Authors
Damon J. Chisholm — McMillan LLP, Vancouver
Jordanna Cytrynbaum — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Neil R. Davie — Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP, Vancouver
Jessica S. Gossen — Real Estate Council of British Columbia, Vancouver
Soraya M. Jamal — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver
Christopher J.A. Johnston — Real Estate Errors and Omissions Insurance Corporation, Vancouver
Randy G. Klarenbach — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
B. Glenn Leung — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Brenda M. Lightbody — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Vanessa Lunday — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Edna M. Ritchie — Lawyers Insurance Fund, Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Mark A. Schmidt — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Wanda Simek — Real Estate Errors and Omissions Insurance Corporation, Vancouver
Scott D. Smythe — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
L. Michael Walker — Miller Thomson LLP, Vancouver
Edward L. Wilson — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Joni R. Worton — Real Estate Council of British Columbia, Vancouver