What is a Land Survey?
When Should You Order a Land Survey?
Are There Different Types of Surveys?
What Should a Survey Cost?
What is a Real Property Report?
What Does a Land Survey Do?
Is the Surveyor Responsible to register my Survey Plan & Description with the Registry of Deeds for the applicable Province?
Why should I have my property corners marked?
Why is the surveyor looking at the entire street and digging up my neighbor's property corners?

What is a Land Survey?
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- A land survey is the procedure of determining the location of monuments which mark a property line, boundary or corner of a parcel of land. This parcel of land is then represented on an accurately scaled drawing showing all measurements and total area.

When Should You Order a Land Survey?
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• Most lenders will require a land survey for all mortgage purposes.


• It can be necessary to settle a boundary dispute.


• It can be necessary to erect a fence.

Are There Different Types of Surveys?
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- There are several types of survey services which may be offered to a client. A few of these are:

• Survey of a lot in a previously recorded subdivision.
  
• Crown Land Survey.
  
• Topographic survey to show horizontal and vertical aspects of the land together with the location of features thereon, both natural and man-made.
  
• Construction stake out survey for the building and improvements.
  

What Should a Survey Cost?
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- The cost of a survey can vary widely. Cost can depend on lot size, location, time of year and property features. However , an estimate can usually be obtained over the phone.

What is a Real Property Report?
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- A Real Property Report(also commonly known as a certificate) is a legal document that clearly illustrates the location of all visible public and private improvements relative to property boundaries. It generally takes the form of a plan or illustration of the various physical features of the property along with a written report highlighting the surveyor's opinion of any concerns. The plan and report may be combined on one document.
In a Real Estate transaction the Surveyor's Real Property Report can be relied upon by the purchaser, the seller, the lending institution, the municipality, the Realtor and all other parties to the transaction as an accurate representation of the property.

What Does a Land Survey Do?
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- A Land Survey locates and marks the property corners. If those corners are not marked, the surveyor will monument them. A Plan of Survey is then prepared and signed by the surveyor which shows the position of the monuments found or set, geographic co-ordinates for the property corners, measurements of all property lines, encroachments, building lines and easements.

Is the Surveyor Responsible to register my Survey Plan & Description with the Registry of Deeds for the applicable Province?
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- No the client has the responsibility to see that his documents are registered with the appropriate authorities. The registration process is usually carried out by a Lawyer.

Why should I have my property corners marked?
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- Any time you purchase a piece of property you should have the corners marked if possible. This establishes an understanding with the neighbors as to where the property lines are at the beginning of your possession and allows disagreements to be settled before bad feelings begin.
Property corners should also be marked before erecting a new fence if the boundary location is in doubt. The cost of having your boundary corners re-established could be far less than the expense that may be incurred by erecting a new fence in the wrong location.

Why is the surveyor looking at the entire street and digging up my neighbor's property corners?
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- Just as a surveyor requires all of the written documentation about your lot, he also needs all of the physical evidence available on or near your site. Your property lines are in a relationship with the property corners of others. Each time a property corner is set, it effects the lands around it.