Further to the need for buyers to be residents, the following clause can be included on an offer in lieu of the CREA form called Certificate and Consent.

Subject to any exceptions set out or prescribed in the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act S.C. 2022, c. 10, s.235, (statute), the Buyer represents and warrants that the Buyer is not now, and on completion will not be, a non-Canadian under the non-Canadian provisions of the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act S.C. 2022, c. 10, s.235, which representation and warranty shall survive and not merge upon the completion of this transaction.