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A professional and public officer, member of the Quebec Order of Land Surveyors, the practice of which is to survey, measure for the purpose of boundary determination lots and buildings and to proceed to the preparation of plans and certificates of location. In divided co-ownership, the land surveyor measures the common and private portions. It also draws up the certificate of location relating either to each of the private portions (certificate of location on the private portion), or to all the common and private portions (global certificate of location), or both.
21/09/2024
When purchasing an apartment in a high-rise building, the buyer automatically becomes a co-owner in a vertical co-ownership, where the units are stacked on top of each other. However, when acquiring a house (detached, townhouse or semi-detached) located on a shared piece of land with other houses, it typically falls under horizontal co-ownership., where…...
22/07/2024
Whether you are a real estate developer (for a new building) or several owners of an existing building who wish to convert it, the rules for subjecting a building to divided co-ownership are the same. The creation of a divided co-ownership is necessary when an immovable must be divided into…...
17/04/2024
The contingency fund is set up on the basis of forward planning limited to certain work namely that which the purpose is the preservation of the common portions; thus, this collective saving allows to finance the execution of work allowing the rehabilitation of the common portions as well as the common portions for restricted use. The contingency fund must…...
02/06/2015
It may sometimes happen that the newly constructed building cannot be immediately subject to a declaration of co-ownership because of the delays surrounding the filing of the cadastral plan with the land register. It is therefore impossible to create the co-ownership and to proceed with the signing of the notarial…...
09/12/2023
Section 1719 of the Civil code of Québec states that the seller must provide the buyer with a copy of the deed of purchase, as well as with a copy of the owner history and of the certificate of location he has on hand. Prepared by a land surveyor, the…...
04/12/2023
When the sale concerns a fraction of a divided co-ownership of a residential immovable, the preliminary contract must be accompanied, at the time of its signature, by certain documents (such as forming with it an indivisible whole). This includes the information note on the essential characteristics of the project, whether…...