Practice Profile
Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP's Real Estate Practice handles a broad range of sophisticated real estate transactions. We are involved in all facets of land financing, acquisition and development. We combine accessible, attentive, and responsive client service with excellent legal skills.
Vancouver's status is growing internationally. Demographic and economic trends suggest B.C.'s real estate sector will continue to act as a key economic driver for the foreseeable future. We take a business-oriented approach in assisting clients across multiple industries to successfully structure their real estate holdings both here in B.C. and across Canada.
Our clients include:
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Developers;
- Companies which acquire and manage property as their core business; and
- Public and private sector entities with real estate needs ancillary to their core business.
Our team is experienced in dealing with the acquisition, development, leasing, disposition of a broad range of properties, and taxation including:
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Shopping centres;
- Hotels;
- Office buildings;
- Apartment buildings;
- Industrial properties;
- Commercial properties;
- Resorts; and
- Health care facilities.
Services
We regularly handle:
- Purchases and sales;
- Land assemblies;
- Zoning matters;
- Property tax assessment appeals;
- Subdivisions (including air space parceling);
- Financings;
- Construction contracts;
- Leases;
- Development agreements;
- Condominium projects (including multi-phase projects);
- Joint ventures, partnerships, limited partnerships and
- Syndications;
- Insolvency arrangements; and
- Real estate-related litigation (including environmental, foreclosures, landlord-tenant disputes, arbitrations and mediations).
Property Assessment Appeals
The tax burden associated with escalating property assessments requires entities with significant property portfolios to be vigilant in the property assessment process. We provide advice and representation in real property assessment for commercial, industrial and individual property owners on property tax matters. Our clients are drawn from a diverse group that includes building owners, hospitals, telecommunication companies and resource companies amongst others. Our experience in this area includes representing clients before the Property Assessment Appeal Board, the B.C. Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Recent Representative Matters
- Negotiated multiple interface agreements with the constructor and operator of a light rapid transit system on behalf of a client in the transportation sector;
- Negotiated a range of contract documents in relation to the construction of a major hospital facility as a public private partnership on behalf of a major stakeholder;
- Negotiated various construction and lease agreements relative to a number of care facilities established as public private partnerships on behalf of a major stakeholder;
- Represented the purchaser of a major downtown Vancouver office tower;
- Represented a joint venturer in litigation involving a major property development;
- Assisted a landlord in terminating a lease and suing for future rent;
- Represented the real estate development subsidiary of a major financial institution in the development of numerous condominium and mixed-use projects;
- Represented the purchaser in a significant acquisition structured as a purchase of bonds issued under a registered trust deed; and
- Represented various property owners in a successful appeal of their property tax assessments.
