BC Personal Real Estate Corporation package starts at $724. This includes agency filing fees, BC Government fees, CRA Business Number and the preparation of articles by the legal and accounting team. You also have option to include other add-on services such as corporate tax ID, GST account, PST account, corporation's bylaws, minute book, securities register, corporate seal and more.

Name and Processing Time: As per RECBC rules, BC Personal Real Estate Corporation must be a named corporation and CANNOT be a numbered corporation. Corporation's name must start with the legal name or a recognizable short form the legal name of the controlling individual and must end with the term "personal real estate corporation". Therefore, a name approval from BC Government is required prior to registration. If you have already obtained a valid name approval, we can register your corporation in as fast as 2 business hours in our Super-Express Queue. If we need to obtain the name approval on be half of you, your corporation can be ready in 1 business day, if you choose Super-Express Queue.

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Product Info: Articles

    Our legal and accounting team will the articles for BC Personal Real Estate Corporation as per rules and legislations provided by the Real Estate Council of British Columbia (RECBC). Here are some general rules that will be respected in preparing the articles:
  1. The corporation is incorporated or continued under the Business Corporations Act.
  2. All the voting shares of the corporation are legally and beneficially owned by a single individual (the controlling individual);
  3. The sole director of the corporation is the controlling individual;
  4. The president, being the sole officer of the corporation, is the controlling individual;
  5. Each non-voting share, if applicable, is legally and beneficially owned by the controlling individual or an affiliated person of the controlling individual; where an affiliated person is defined as:
    (a) the spouse of the controlling individual;
    (b) a child of the controlling individual;
    (c) a corporation, all of the shares of which are beneficially owned by one or more of the controlling individual and the other individuals referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b), or 
       (d) a trust, all of the beneficiaries of which are one or more of the controlling individual and the other individuals referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b);
  6. The legal name of the corporation includes both, but nothing other than,
       (i) the legal name, a recognizable short form of the legal name or the licensee name of the controlling individual, and
    (ii) the term “personal real estate corporation”.