Agreement of Purchase and Sale
Either you or your real estate company sends us the Agreement of Purchase and Sale (APS). We request complete APS, including all schedules, waivers, amendments, and notice of fulfilments of conditions. We ask you to gather all these documents. Your real estate company must have all these documents. We review the APS. We discuss the essential terms and dates with you. We consult with you whether you want the title to register as joint tenants or tenants in common.
Title Searches
Our next step is to conduct title-related searches. After searches, we prepare our letter of requisitions based on our title searches and essential terms of APS. We send our letter of requisitions to the seller's lawyer. Our office does follow up with the seller's lawyer and ensures that all conditions are met. We ensure that all requisitions are addressed by the seller's lawyer properly.
Title Insurance
Title Insurance is mandatory as per mortgage instructions. Lenders refuse to fund the purchase transactions if a valid title insurance policy is not secured as per their mortgage instructions. Our office arranges for the title insurance policy. We review the policy and finalize the policy as per your and the lender's instructions.
Property Taxes
Our office requests the seller's lawyer for the current property tax bill. We order the up-to-date tax certificate from the city, if required, to ensure the seller has paid the property taxes and water bills. If the seller has not paid the property taxes per their share, we ask the seller's lawyer to amend the statement of adjustments accordingly.
Mortgage Lenders
Banks and private lending institutes can be your mortgage lenders. Our office receives mortgage instructions from your lending institute.We review the instructions. Our office ensures that all mortgage documents are prepared as per the lender's instructions. We communicate with your mortgage company and lender to ensure all the conditions are fulfilled before funding. We receive mortgage funds from your bank. Minhas Lawyers also provide a mortgage payment calculator for your information only.
Closing costs
Closing costs include land transfer tax, our legal fees and disbursements, final property tax adjustments, if any, title insurance cost, title transfer registration cost, and mortgage charge registration costs. The first-time buyer in Ontario gets a land transfer tax rebate. Foreign buyer pays non-resident speculation tax in Ontario. We calculate the land transfer tax for you. Our office deducts and sends the final land transfer tax amount to Ontario government on your behalf.
We charge very fair and reasonable legal fees and disbursements. Disbursements include any bank charges, courier charges, photocopy charges, software charges, title search charges, write search charges, e reg charges etc.
Sometimes the seller has paid more property taxes to the city than their required share. Buyer pays the extra property taxes to the seller as per their respective shares on closing if needed. As we mentioned above, a title insurance policy is mandatory by mortgage lenders, and the buyer pays the cost of title insurance to the title insurance company. The buyer pays for the title transfer registration cost. The buyer is also responsible for mortgage charge registration costs on the title if any mortgage is involved in the transaction.
Final reporting to you
Our office prepares the final reporting package for you. Our final reporting package includes our final reporting letter advising the title, mortgagee information, copies of title transfer and charge registration documents, the final statement of adjustments, our trust account ledger, title insurance policy, and other related documents.
Minhas Lawyers have extensive experience in real estate transactions. Contact us for more information.
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Had a great experience working with Mr. Minhas
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Michael Moore
Manpreet Minhas, Rupinder Minhas, and their team were extremely professional and provided great guidance through my entire transaction/matter. They were always very informative and very prompt to reply. Truly felt they had my best interest throughout the entire matter. Would strongly recommend Minhas Lawyers to anyone.
Michael Moore
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Rupinder Minhas is very professional and knowledgeable but more than that he is a very honest person. He handled my estate matter very professionally. I recommend his services.
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Minhas Lawyers are very professional and hold very high standards. This is my 5th year with them. They have helped me in Real Estate, Will and Estate, and immigration matters. Recently they have worked on our family estate matter and we are extremely happy from their services. Top Lawyers. Highly recommend.
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Manpreet Minhas and his team are very Knowledgeable, Professional and result oriented. Had a very positive experience on a real estate dealing with Mr. Minhas and his team who are focused on details and positive experience for clients. Will definitely use service if needed in future. Thanks and best wishes.
Roopa Dittakavi
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