What Document Do I Need To Register My New Home

Before you can showtime construction on a new home, it must be either enrolled in home warranty insurance or have an applicative exemption.

Steps to Register a New Habitation:

Accommodate Home Warranty Insurance
Register the project on the Licensed Residential Builders Portal
Pay the relevant fees
Edifice Permit

Arranging Home Warranty Insurance

It's essential that you accept continued enrolment throughout the structure and auction of your new habitation. There are exemptions to the requirements for licensing and home warranty insurance, such every bit an applicable rental exemption or an Owner Architect Authorization.

The Homeowner Protection Act does not specify who must ensure a new home (or homes) are registered for home warranty insurance — just that dwelling (or homes) must be registered. The nearly common scenarios are:

When a licensed residential builder owns the land on which the domicile is beingness built, that person or their visitor will register and enrol the domicile.
If a programmer and full general contractor working for the developer are involved in a new-domicile projection under Part 9 of the BC Edifice Code, they must both be licensed residential builders. Either licensee may be responsible for registering and enrolling the project. Withal, the warranty provider sometimes states who they would prefer register the home.
If a developer and general contractor who is working for the developer are involved in a new abode project under Part 3 of the BC Building Code, only the developer has to be licensed. In this case, the licensee — the developer — is responsible for registering and enrolling the project. If the full general contractor is also licensed, either may annals and enrol the project.
In a custom-home contract, the general contractor will be licensed. He or she will and so annals and enrol the home — not the homeowner.

Regulatory Message No eight Registering and Enrolling New Homes for Abode Warranty Insurance Coverage , explains registration in greater item, including continuation of coverage and the New Homes Registry.

When the commitment for dwelling warranty insurance on a new dwelling house or multi-unit project is cancelled, the new home is de-enrolled. To learn more about de-enrollment, including common reasons and consequences, consult Regulatory Bulletin No x De-enrolling Homes from Home Warranty Insurance and the Homeowner Protection Act .

Annals your project

Before you lot can obtain a building permit, or earlier starting structure in areas where a building permit is not required, you'll need a New Home Registration Course as proof of licensing and abode warranty insurance. Equally a licensed residential builder, you can register your project and enrol it in habitation warranty insurance online using the Licensed Residential Builders Portal.

If your licence status is "Approved" y'all can register new homes. If your licence is "Expired," or if it has specific conditions that prevent the registration of new homes, so yous cannot register new projects until you renew your licence or the condition is lifted. You must as well have current acceptance with 1 of the approved 3rd-party home warranty insurance providers.

Enrol your projection

To enrol new homes for home warranty insurance, y'all must first consummate the online registration data for each proposed single detached home and/or multi-unit building and pay the applicative fees. Use our Online Registration of New Homes to help you fill up out the project information and pay the fees.

To complete the registration you volition need detailed and accurate construction information on your project, including:

Type of home (for example, a single family home, duplex or multi-unit of measurement home)
Civic and legal address, including the package identifier (PID)
Belongings owner name and contact number
Construction details

Once you have completed the project data and paid the applicable fees, the registration information is transferred to your warranty provider. If you have acceptance from more than one warranty provider, you can cull which provider to submit your enrolment asking to.

Your warranty provider will appraise the enrolment request afterwards obtaining whatsoever additional required data and warranty fees. The New Home Registration Form is sealed electronically if enrollment is approved.

Please contact the Licensing and Consumer Services Branch at 604-646-7050 or licensinginfo@bchousing.org about how to register a new home manually if online registration is not possible.

We encourage you to register new homes early in the construction process. The various warranty providers may take different processes and documentation requirements. To avert unnecessary structure delays, you should contact your warranty provider to acquire about their registration procedures and documentation requirements to enrol dissimilar types of new construction.

Change requests

Information technology's important to keep the registration information up to appointment for your projects. This volition ensure that homebuyers can discover your project on the New Homes Registry and will help you avoid compliance bug.

You can login to the Licensed Residential Builders Portal to start a New Dwelling house Registration From modify asking. You tin can utilise a change asking to:

Update or correct a civic or legal address
Alter the unit count for a registered building

Either you or your home insurance warranty provider can brand a New Habitation Registration Form change request. We will notify your warranty provider if y'all initiate the request. These requests must be reviewed and accepted past us and the warranty provider earlier we update the New Homes Registry.

New Habitation Registration Grade Alter Requests explains the procedure for completing a alter request.

Licensing fees

We collect a $40-per-unit of measurement licensing fee on the construction of each new habitation when you register. This charge is in addition to the fee that goes with an application to get a licensed residential builder.

When more than 1 licensed residential architect is involved in a new domicile construction project — for instance, when a programmer hires a general contractor — merely one licensed residential builder has to pay the $twoscore-per-unit fee.

Reconstruction fees

We collect a $750 per unit reconstruction fee for each new dwelling unit of measurement that is in a multi-unit of measurement edifice in the littoral climate zone. These reconstruction fees fund the Reconstruction Loan Portfolio, which is run by the Ministry building of Finance.

When more than one licensed residential builder is constructing a new home — for example, when a developer hires a general contractor — just one has to pay the $750-per-reconstruction-unit fee (where geographically applicative).

The Homeowner Protection Act regulations define the coastal climate zone every bit:

Uppercase Regional District
Regional District of Comox-Strathcona excluding Electoral Areas Yard, I and J and the villages of Gold River, Tahsis and Zeballos
Fraser Valley Regional District
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Regional District of Alberni-Clayoquot
Regional Commune of Cowichan Valley
Regional District of Nanaimo
Regional District of Powell River
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District excluding Electoral Areas A and B and the District of Lillooet
Sunshine Coast Regional District

Coastal climate zone map

Getting your edifice permit

A New Home Registration Course will be available one time the registration and enrollment is complete. The Grade will act as proof of licensing and domicile warranty insurance for your municipality or regional district when you use for your edifice allow. You can download your sealed New Habitation Registration Form from your account on the Licensed Residential Builders Portal.

Building departments have access to an online database of New Home Registration Forms and may be able to look upwardly your project. Check with your building department to detect out if they need a paper copy of your Form.

Permit not required

In areas where building permits are not required, you must ensure that the project is enrolled and your warranty provider has sealed the New Home Registration Course before you tin can kickoff construction.

Heritage Buildings

Sometimes, conversion or renovation projects on heritage buildings with a residential component are affected by the Homeowner Protection Human action and Regulations.

If enough of the edifice's original structure has been removed or replaced, the projection is accounted substantially reconstructed, making it a "new home." Therefore, the dwelling must be covered by dwelling house warranty insurance before the municipality or regional commune can issue a building let.

For more guidance around renovations on heritage homes, including possible exclusions and conversions, our regulatory bulletin, Heritage Buildings and the Homeowner Protection Act , has all the details.

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