British Columbia Real Estate Development Practice Manual--ONLINE

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: December 1, 2024

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 an online subscription to British Columbia Real Estate Development Practice Manual, 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 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

Subscribe today and take your real estate development practice to the next level! View a sample from this book!

Highlights of the 2025 Update include:

• tax and other considerations for developers acquiring residential properties (additional PTT, SVT, BC flipping tax; foreign ownership ban; tenancies and delayed possession arrangements)
• resolving joint venture disputes
• termination of land use contracts
• extension and modification of foreign ownership ban
• official community plan requirements
• housing needs reports
• prohibitions on public hearings on zoning bylaws in certain circumstances
• authorization of amenity cost charges as condition of subdivision approval or building permit issuance
• expansion of offsite servicing requirements
• expansion of subdivision and building permit requirements for highway/transportation use
• transportation demand management measures
• new density bonus requirements for zoning bylaws
• small scale multi-family housing requirements
• prohibitions on density and size restrictions and off-street parking requirements in transit-oriented areas
• expansion of subdivision servicing requirements
• consultation with First Nations and potential impacts of DRIPA on local governments
• air space parcel subdivision process
• Vancouver zoning and housing initiatives
• expansion of types of capital projects that can attract development cost levies
• lowered criminal rate of interest, commercial loan exemptions in certain circumstances
• Superintendent of Real Estate's Policy Statements amendments

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

Online subscribers can purchase a print copy of British Columbia Real Estate Development Practice Manual 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. The Developer's Perspective

2. Acquiring the Land

3. Structure of the Developer and Joint Ventures

4. Searches and Investigations for Development

5. Real Estate Development Rights

6. Site Development Control

7. Development and Amenity Cost Charges and Offsite Servicing Requirements

8. Subdivision Regulation

9. City of Vancouver—Land Use and Development

10. Construction Contracts

11. Development Finance

12. Development Marketing

13. Real Estate Development on First Nations Lands

Forms and Precedents

Tables
Case Table
Statutes and Related Material Table
Index

Editorial Board
Pamela J. Jefcoat — Civic Legal LLP, Vancouver
Mark V. Lewis — Bennett Jones LLP, Vancouver
Edward L. Wilson — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver

Authors
Nathalie J. Baker — Eyford Partners LLP, Vancouver
Alyssa D. Bradley — Young Anderson, Vancouver
Lisa A. Frey — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Madeleine J. Hawkins — McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Mark V. Lewis — Bennett Jones LLP, Vancouver
David T. Mckenzie — Jenkins Marzban Logan LLP, Vancouver
Matthew E. Mitchell — Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Lindsay A. Parcells — Lidstone & Company, Vancouver
Michael E. Quattrocchi — Young Anderson, Vancouver
Craig W. Shirreff — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Matthew G. Swanson — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
David G. Volk — Jenkins Marzban Logan LLP, Vancouver
Vanessa S. Werden — Jenkins Marzban Logan LLP, Vancouver
Cameron Whyte — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Edward L. Wilson — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Jean Yuen — Boughton Law Corporation, Vancouver