We can represent you if you are Selling your Real Estate in B.C.
Important information for our Clients selling their Real Estate:
- Please contact our office prior to accepting an offer to ensure that your Closing Date will align with our office.
- Send us a copy of your contract.
- Read the Engagement Letter that we will e-mail to you after you have retained our office.
- Please let us know of any unique adjustments, such as: tenants, damage deposits, pet deposits, rent amounts, tenancy contract and current rents, pre-paid taxes, water or utilities, self-managed stratas, etc.
- We will need your Mortgage Number to ask for a Mortgage payout statement
Has a Loved One Passed Away and Their Name Is Still on the Title of the Home?
When a loved one passes away, there are often many things that need to be taken care of, including dealing with their home and other real estate.
We can help you with the legal paperwork required to remove a deceased owner from the title of a property.
Depending on how the property was owned and the circumstances of the estate, different steps may be required. We can review the title, determine what documentation is needed, and assist with preparing and registering the necessary documents with the Land Title Office.
We can help with:
• Reviewing the current title to determine how the property is registered
• Explaining the steps required following the death of an owner
• Preparing the necessary Land Title documents
• Assisting Executors and surviving owners with the registration process
• Registering the documents with the Land Title Office
• Helping ensure the property title is properly updated before the property is sold, transferred, or refinanced
Dealing with a loved one’s estate can already feel overwhelming. If their name remains on the title of a home, it is important to have the property ownership properly addressed.
You Don’t Have to Navigate It Alone
Our office can help guide you through the process and take care of the necessary legal paperwork.
Have You Received a Grant of Probate or Grant of Administration?
If a loved one has passed away and owned real estate, obtaining the Grant of Probate or Grant of Administration is an important step in the estate administration process. However, receiving the Grant from the Court is not necessarily the final step when the deceased owned property. Our office can assist with registering the Grant of Probate or Grant of Administration on the property title.
Once the Court has granted probate or administration, we can assist the Executor or Administrator with the Land Title requirements needed to establish their authority to deal with the deceased’s interest in the property.
We can help with:
• Reviewing the current title to the property
• Preparing the required Land Title documents
• Registering the Grant with the Land Title Office
• Registering the deceased’s interest in the name of the estate’s personal representative, where required
• Preparing the title for the next stage of estate administration, including a sale or transfer of the property
Let Us Help With the Next Step
Administering an estate can involve a number of steps, and dealing with real estate can add another layer of paperwork.
If you have already obtained a Grant of Probate or Grant of Administration under the Wills, Estates and Succession Act (WESA) and the deceased owned a home or other real estate in British Columbia, our office can help you with the next step of registering the estate’s interest on title.
Contact our office to discuss the property and determine what is required to update the title.
IDENTIFICATION
When coming in to sign your Real Estate Documents please bring in your two pieces of ID that match the names on your State of Title Certificate, exactly. If your Title has first, middle and last name, your ID should show your first, middle and last name.
One of your ID’s needs to be Government Issued (Drivers License, Passport, Health Services Card, Permanent Resident Card, etc), your second piece of ID can be another Government Issued ID or a major credit card (but all names must match exactly to your State of Title Certificate and Real Estate Documents.
If you have any questions about your ID, please give our office a call at 250 756 4900 to clarify.