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The playbook for a lawyer starting a real estate practice

Where a real estate lawyer's clients come from around a home offer, what buyers and owners read on OfferDue before they call, and the off-title summary and closing checklist made for the file.

The kind of business: Real estate lawyers. Page reviewed 4 Nov 2026.

A lawyer starting a real estate practice

Where clients appear2 moments

Things to hand a clientpublic samples

2 recordsto know
1 registerclients check
Free listingnever paid for
  1. Thinking about it
  2. Getting ready to sell
  3. Searching and financing
  4. The offer and its conditions
  5. Closing and moving
  6. The first 90 days
  7. Making it yours
  8. Adding a unit or renting it out
  9. Living there

Where clients come from

  1. The offer and its conditions

    Buyers read about the records off the title before the file opens: permits still open, applications for the address, the zoning. The off-title summary puts those for one address on one page for the file, read beside the searches.

  2. Closing and moving

    Between a firm deal and closing day, clients ask about the land transfer tax and its refund, home insurance, rented equipment on title and the utility accounts. The closing checklist answers them with the official page for each step and the address's own services.

What a listing shows

What a listing looks like
Your business nameReal estate lawyersRegister checked
  • The towns you serve
  • Languages
  • What you specialise in

Your website

FreeIn the order checkedNever paid for

  • The towns served and the languages worked in.
  • The firm's name, checked against the Law Society's directory before the listing shows.
  • What the practice handles: purchases and sales, refinancing, new builds, private lending.

Listing on OfferDue is free and in the order businesses were checked, never paid for. Where a licence or register exists we check it before a listing shows.

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The records to know

OfferDue's tools for this work

Each is sold once, at a flat price that is the same for every business; none is billed monthly. One that is not open to buy yet says so on its page.

The register and the line

  • Law Society of Ontario: lawyer and paralegal directoryShows whether a lawyer is licensed to practise in Ontario.Check the register →

What OfferDue does and doesn't do with this business:

  • No legal advice and no interpretation of a by-law, a plan or a title: the report says what each record shows and where it comes from.
  • Not a title search, a work-order search or a compliance letter, and no substitute for any of them: a starting list the lawyer verifies with the official searches.
  • No "cleared" or "verified by" claims: a report describes the public record on the day it was checked, not the home.
  • No condo documents: status certificates and condo rules are out of scope.
  • No fee tied to a retainer, in either direction.
  • Listing is free and shows in the order businesses were checked: no business pays for a place, a label or an order on any page.
  • OfferDue takes no fee for a client who finds a listed business, and pays none to anyone for a client.
  • OfferDue's pages say what each record shows and where it comes from: never legal, financial, insurance or inspection advice.

Public-record information, not legal, financial, insurance or inspection advice. A listing on OfferDue is not a recommendation; check licences and references yourself.