For real estate lawyers: a sourced starting list for every file

One page for one address, for the file: zoning and the official plan designation, applications for the address and within 300 m, permits on file, heritage, the conservation authority's regulated area, the flood plain, road widening and planned street works, past industrial use, pipelines and rail, extra units and the rental by-laws. Each line has its status, the record, its source, the date it was read and the office that issues it.

Your file or matter number heads the page. It prints, or saves as a PDF, for the file. By email within 24 hours of payment; a person checks every line.

Open the sample off-title summary

A starting list beside the searches, never a title search, a compliance letter, a zoning certificate or legal advice: the lawyer confirms each point with the office that issues the record. The price is the same for every firm, and OfferDue pays no one for a file (the Law Society's rules on fee-sharing and referral rewards). Prices in CAD and include HST; the receipt is in the email. Where a town doesn't publish a record, its line says so and names the office to ask (coverage by town).

One page for one purchase, to send a client once the deal is firm: the usual steps before closing day and in the first weeks (home insurance, the land transfer tax and its refund, rental equipment on title, the utility accounts, the change of address, the CO alarm rule, the tax account), each with the official page and the date we read it, and the address's own records beside them: the tax and water rates, the distributors, internet, collection day, parking, the tree by-law, permits, the fire station, the ward and the services nearby.

Your firm's name heads the page. Ordering opens soon: write to [email protected] to be told when it does.

Open the sample closing checklist

Steps and public records, never legal advice: the firm handles the transaction. The price will be the same for every firm, and OfferDue pays no one for a file.

1. Intake: a client who found the firm through the lawyers' guide arrives with the report in hand, or orders it with the free check as the first step.
2. The conditional period: the full report reads the zoning and the official plan designation, the permits on file and the open applications for the address and nearby, heritage, road widening, planned street works and the overlays, before the searches are ordered.
3. The file: the report is one file; every line names its source and the date it was read, so a point raised with the other side rests on the record, not on a recollection. A watermark carries the order number and part of the ordering email.
4. The vendor's side: for a vendor client, the same report ordered as the owner's report, dated, to hand to buyers before they ask.

Order a 10-report packSee the sample report

With a pack, send up to three addresses with the order and the rest by reply to your report email, any time within twelve months, naming the file each report is for. Reports go to the email on the order; you forward them. Prices in CAD and include HST; the receipt is in the report email.

Firm packs (25 and 50 reports) are priced on request until their links are live: email with the firm's name and the number of people who will order.

Buyers and sellers reading the lawyers' guide are about to instruct a real estate lawyer. A firm listed there is found by them at that moment, by city.

A listing is free and checked against the Law Society's directory first. OfferDue takes no referral fee and pays none: nothing passes between us when a client instructs you, so the Law Society's rules on fee-sharing are respected by design.

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• 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.

Who does what in an Ontario offer, and the register for each licence: the roles page. The records beside the searches, stage by stage: the lawyers' guide.

Packs, a listing or a firm arrangement: . Help with a report you've received: [email protected].

Reports and receipts come only from [email protected], and we never ask for card details by email.