Real estate legal-AI skills in 🇨🇦 Canada

12 legal AI skills for real estate in Canada.

Basic calculation

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Use when valuing the remainder after a partial taking — quantifying frontage loss by road class ($/linear foot), circuitous-access capitalization, landlocked-parcel easement cost-to-cure, shape-efficiency-driven development yield loss, or farm operation disruption (fencing, equipment crossings, irrigation severance). Before/after method with cost-to-cure vs. value-loss reconciliation.

BC Tenancy Advocacy — Advanced Modules

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BC tenancy advocacy advanced modules: judicial review escalation, human rights overlaps (BCHRT), strata/condo rentals, MHPTA manufactured home parks, client-centered trauma-informed advocacy, Law Society ethics, and advanced (Level 99) practice moves. Use with bc-tenancy-substantive, bc-tenancy-procedure, bc-judicial-review-guide, and supreme-court-civil-counsel. Legal information only — not legal advice. SRL-friendly.

BC Tenancy Procedure — RTB Runtime Environment

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BC RTB procedure runtime: evidence packaging, witness prep, applications, negotiation, hearing strategy, document drafting, enforcement/collections. Use for RTB filing, hearings, settlements, and post-order enforcement. Pair with bc-tenancy-substantive for RTA law and bc-tenancy-advocacy (advanced) for JR, human rights, strata, MHPTA. Legal information only — not legal advice.

BC Tenancy Substantive — Deep RTA Knowledge

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Deep BC Residential Tenancy Act knowledge: critical sections, bad-faith detection (renoviction, demoviction, caretaker loophole), eviction defence timelines, repairs, disputed fees/charges, rent increases, deposits. Tenant-side and landlord-side. Plain language for self-reps; technical depth for lawyers. Legal information only. Pair with bc-tenancy-procedure for RTB process and bc-tenancy-advanced for JR/HR/strata/MHPTA.

Construction Period Impacts (Temporary)

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Use when quantifying injurious-affection damages under OEA s.18(2)(a)/(b) — modeling construction-period noise (dBA), dust (PM2.5/PM10), or vibration (PPV mm/s); valuing permanent proximity impacts via paired sales or hedonic regression; documenting business losses with comparative sales analysis; or calculating cost-to-cure for traffic, signage, or parking impairment.

Distress for Rent (s.19-22)

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Use when advising landlords on enforcement strategy under Ontario Commercial Tenancies Act, executing distress for rent, weighing re-entry vs. acceleration vs. termination, calculating overholding double-rent liability, applying the election doctrine (Highway Properties) or mitigation duty (Southcott Estates), or defending against relief from forfeiture motions.

Form-Specific Checklists

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Use when pre-flighting Ontario expropriation Forms 1-12 under O.Reg. 363/90 before service or filing — verifying statutory authority citations on Form 2, compensation breakdown completeness on Form 6, 30-day notice math on Form 7, dual-signing-officer compliance, or affidavit-of-service adequacy. Catch defects before they trigger procedural challenges.

Jurisdictional Defects (Void Expropriation)

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Use when diagnosing whether a procedural error renders an expropriation void or voidable, evaluating ultra vires or bad-faith challenges, designing cure strategies (supplementary notice, court validation, fresh approval), or applying the s.23 one-year limitation period. Covers case law (Snider service, Fraser form defects, Crombie deadline enforcement) for procedural challenges.

Market Value Entitlement Framework

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Use when analyzing legal entitlement to expropriation compensation under the Ontario Expropriations Act — determining valuation date under s.13(2), applying the Antrim four-part test for injurious affection, distinguishing compensable disturbance from non-compensable goodwill under s.18(3), or assessing highest-and-best-use claims. Entitlement analysis (what is compensable), not valuation (how much).

Ontario Expropriations Act Deadlines

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Use when calculating Form 1/2/7 service windows, tracking the 3-month registration deadline under OEA s.9, managing approval-expiry risk, or escalating timeline-critical acquisitions through green/yellow/orange/red/critical protocols. Operational deadline tracking — not legal interpretation.

Quebec housing rights (tenants & landlords)

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Quebec residential tenancy — the rights and obligations of tenants (lessees) and landlords (lessors) under the Civil Code of Québec, adjudicated by the Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL, formerly the Régie du logement). A query-answering reference distilled from Éducaloi's English renting capsules, quebec.ca, and tal.gouv.qc.ca (fetched 2026-07) via multi-agent research. Covers: the lease (the mandatory TAL form, verbal leases, French-language rule, void clauses, the lowest-rent-in-12-months disclosure notice and the 10-day/2-month deadlines to contest); money (only first month's rent may be required — security/key deposits and demanded post-dated cheques are ILLEGAL; what a landlord may and may not ask for; rent due the 1st, late the 2nd; the 3-week rule; paying before judgment stops eviction; co-tenancy where JOINT is the default and solidary must be written in); discrimination (Charter grounds, CDPDJ); rent increases and automatic renewal (the 3-6 month notice window, the 1-month reply where SILENCE = ACCEPTANCE, the landlord applying to the TAL to fix rent, CPI-based criteria); assignment vs subletting (assignment releases you and since Feb 2024 a landlord refusing it cancels the lease; sublet needs a serious reason; 15 days, silence = consent); living in the dwelling (landlord's habitability/peaceful-enjoyment/guarantee-of-use duties; the tenant's duty of prudence and diligence and NOT to change the form or destination/use of the unit — a two-condition test of consent AND zoning; access notice of 24h/10 days with visits 9-9 and work 7-7; repairs and repair-and-deduct; heating where ~21C is a TAL practice standard not a statutory minimum; poor conditions and the unfit-dwelling recourse; pets, where no-pet clauses ARE valid in Quebec); ending a lease (keeping repossession vs eviction vs termination-for-fault distinct — notice periods, silence = REFUSAL, the landlord bears the burden and must apply to the TAL, the eviction indemnity formula, senior protectio

What is Lease Arbitration?

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Use when drafting a renewal option clause with rent arbitration, choosing between baseball and conventional arbitration, structuring arbitrator selection procedures, resolving a fair market rent dispute on renewal, or testing an arbitration clause for enforceability.