Real Estate Law

Our Real Estate Law Team includes financial institution approved lawyers who act for major chartered banks and credit unions in secured transactions, facilitating the lending of much needed purchase financing, capital, and operating lines of credit to corporate and individual borrowers. We also represent our clients as borrowers in financing transactions, providing the requisite legal opinions and arranging for due execution and delivery of the security necessary to obtain credit facilities and funds from lenders. CBM clients also receive the support of an experienced and professional team of paralegals and support staff that have many years of experience managing financing and secured lending transactions to their successful completion and funding.

For landlords seeking to lease their premises to commercial tenants, we prepare standard form lease agreements and ensure that all provisions of the same are carefully considered and fully documented to protect your interests, limit your exposure to liability, and ensure that the rent is paid when due. Our Real Estate Law Team drafts definitive Leases (Triple Net and Gross), Tenancy Agreements, and Equipment Lease Agreements, Personal Guarantees, and Indemnity Agreements, all to secure and establish the rights and obligations of both landlords and tenants with greater clarity. For tenants seeking to lease space for their operations, we assist with your review of standard form Leases, Assignment of Lease and Landlord Consents, and Lease Modification Agreements, Lease Renewal Agreements, and related documentation and security. We provide our comments and valuable insight to ensure the same are reasonably drafted, fair and equitable, and provide the terms and conditions that you need to enjoy your leased premises in order for your business to flourish.

Acting for developers, our Real Estate Law Team has ample experience advising on property development and subdivisions. From land assembly and acquisition through to rezoning, building permits, satisfactory financing, real estate development marketing, construction, builders liens, subdivision, stratification, and final sale to purchasers, our knowledgeable team of practitioners offer thorough and value added counsel to our clients. Our Real Estate Law Team will work diligently and efficiently with you, your land surveyor, the Approving Officer, your financial institution, all charge holders on title, and all utility and other governmental entities to draft and complete:

• Disclosure Statements and Amendments;
• Rental Disclosure Statements;
• Site Development Control Charges (Section 219 Covenants, Restrictive Covenants, Statutory Rights of Way, Easements, Equitable Charges, Statutory Building Schemes, Options to Purchase, Rights of First Refusal, Leases, and Subleases);
• Subdivision Servicing Agreements;
• Subdivision Negotiations and Undertakings to Municipalities;
• Title Opinions;
• Zoning Approval and Permit Requirements;
• Subdivision Plans;
• Strata Plans and Amendments and
• Strata Bylaws and Rules.

Our Real Estate Law Team delivers savvy and pragmatic solutions to get the deal done. We represent both purchasers and vendors in the purchase and sale of commercial and industrial properties from the Letter of Intent through to the closing date, providing our legal advice and guidance at all stages of the transaction. We act for and counsel commercial and industrial purchasers and vendors with conscientious and timely legal services, including without limitation, drafting Letters of Intent, Offers to Purchase, and Purchase Agreements, due diligence searches, title search review and opinions (legal notations, charges, liens, and interests), tax certificates, Land Title Office title transfer documentation, statements of adjustments, and all related closing documents. Always be closing.

For most of us, our home is by far our most significant asset. Buying or selling that property is often one of the most material financial decisions we will ever make in our lives. Whether that property is your home or your place of business, let the Real Estate Law Team at CBM help you to protect its value.

From our law firm offices in Langley, Aldergrove, and Maple Ridge, British Columbia, our Real Estate Law Team handles residential conveyancing (purchase and sale) matters with experience, strength, and precision, ensuring the seamless completion of your transaction from initial review of the Contract of Purchase and Sale and Disclosure Statement, title review and due diligence, through to subject removal, preparation of closing documents to effect the transfer of title in the Land Title Office, strata forms, and insurance documents, preparation of your mortgage and financing documents, payout, discharge, and release of financial charges and liens, and swift closing of your transaction. Our adept Real Estate Law Team also provides experienced and proficient advice and assistance with:

• Family Transfers;
• Co-Ownership Agreements
• Financing and Refinancing; and
• Mortgages and Lines of Credit.