Where is my nearest Land Registry Office and what services does it provide?

[Rob]

Where is my nearest Land Registry Office and what services does it provide?


Hours: 8:30 -- 5:00
Services Provided:
Registry - REG
Land Titles - LT
Personal Property Security Registration - PPSR
Company Incorporation - CO
Registrar General - ORG
Ontario Business Connects - OBC
Automated land registration data base - POLARIS

Glengarry
Land Registry Office -- REG (Bilingual)
PO Box 668
63 Kenyon Street West
Alexandria ON K0C 1A0
Tel: (613) 525-1315
Fax: (613) 525-0509

Lanark
Land Registry Office -- REG, OBC, PPSR, LT, POLARIS
2 Industrial Dr
P.O. Box 1180
Almonte ON K0A 1A0
Tel: (613) 256-1577
Fax: (613) 256-0940

York Region
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT PPSR, ORG, POLARIS
50 Bloomington Road West
3rd Floor
Aurora, Ontario
L4G 3G8

Phone: 905-713-7798
Fax: 905-713-7799

Simcoe
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, CO, OBC, POLARIS, ORG (Bilingual)
Court House
114 Worsley Street
Barrie ON L4M 1M1
Tel: (705) 725-7232
Fax: (705) 725-7246

Hastings
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, ORG
15 Victoria Ave
Belleville ON K8N 1Z5
Tel: (613) 968-4597 -- General Inquiry
Fax: (613) 968-3606

Muskoka
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, OBC
15 Dominion Street
Bracebridge ON P1L 2E7
Tel: (705) 645-4415
Fax: (715) 645-7826

Peel
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, OBC, POLARIS, ORG (Bilingual)
7765 Hurontario St
Brampton ON L6W 4S8
Tel: (905) 874-4008
Fax: (905) 874-4012

Brant
Land Registry Office -- LT, REG, PPSR, POLARIS
Court House
80 Wellington Street
Brantford ON N3T 2L9
Tel: (519) 752-8321
(519) 752-5571 -- PPSR
Fax: (519) 752-0273

Leeds
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR, OBC
7 King St. West
Box 633
Brockville ON K6V 3P7
Tel: (613) 345-5751
Fax: (613) 345-7390

Haldimand
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR, LT
10 Echo St.
PO Box 310
Cayuga ON N0A 1E0
Tel: (905) 772-3531
Fax: (905) 772-0105

Kent
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR, LT, POLARIS (Bilingual)
40 William Street North
Chatham ON N7M 4L2
Tel: (519) 352-5520
Fax: (519) 352-3222

Northumberland
Land Registry Office -- LT, REG, PPSR
1005 Elgin St. West, Suite 105,
Cobourg ON K9A 5J4
Tel: (905) 372-3813
Fax: (905) 372-4758

Cochrane
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR (Bilingual)
149 4th Avenue
Court House
PO Box 580
Cochrane ON P0L 1C0
Tel: (705) 272-5791
Fax: (705) 272-2951

Stormont
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR, OBC (Bilingual)
127 Sydney Street
Cornwall ON K6H 3H1
Tel: (613) 932-4522
Fax: (613) 932-4524

Rainy River
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, POLARIS
353 Church Street
Fort Frances ON P9A 1C9
Tel: (807) 274-5451
Fax: (807) 274-1704

Huron
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR, OBC, LT, POLARIS
38 North Street
Goderich ON N7A 2T4
Tel: (519) 524-9562
Fax: (519) 524-2482

Manitoulin
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR
27 Phipps St, P.O. Box 619
Gore Bay ON P0P 1H0
Tel: (705) 282-2442
Fax: (705) 282-3245

Wellington
Land Registry Office -- LT, REG, PPSR, POLARIS
1 Stone Rd W
Guelph ON N1G 4Y2
Tel: (519) 826-3372
Fax: (519) 826-3373

Timiskaming
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, OBC (Bilingual)
375 Main St PO Box 159
Haileybury ON P0J 1K0
Tel: (705) 672-3332
Fax: (705) 672-3906

Wentworth
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT. PPSR, CO, ORG, POLARIS (Bilingual)
119 King Street West 4th fl
PO Box 2112
Hamilton ON L8P 4Y7
Tel: (905) 521-7561
Fax: (905) 521-7505

Prescott
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR (Bilingual)
179 Main St. E.
Hawkesbury ON K6A 1A1
Tel: (613) 636-0314
Fax: (613) 636-0772

Kenora (Bilingual)
REG, LT, PPSR, OBC
220 Main St S
Kenora ON P9N 1T2
Tel: (807) 468-2794
Fax: (807) 468-2796

Frontenac
Land Registry Office -- LT, REG, PPSR, CO, ORG, POLARIS
1 Court Street
Kingston ON K7L 2N4
Tel: (613) 548-6767
Fax: (613) 548-6766

Waterloo
Land Registry Office -- ORG, REG, PPSR, CO, OBC, LT, POLARIS
30 Duke St. W., 2nd Fl
Kitchener ON N2H 3W5
Tel: (519) 571-6043
Fax: (519) 571-6067

Victoria
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR
Provincial Court Building
440 Kent St W
Lindsay ON K9V 6G8
Tel: (705) 324-4912
Fax: (705) 324-6290

Middlesex
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR, ORG, CO, LT, POLARIS (Bilingual)
Provincial Court Bldg
80 Dundas St Ground Floor J
London ON N6A 6A7
Tel: (519) 675-7600
Fax: (519) 675-7611

Halton
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, POLARIS
491 Steeles Ave E
Milton ON L9T 1Y7
Tel: (905) 878-7287
Fax: (905) 876-8806

Haliburton
Land Registry Office -- REG
Newcastle Street Box 270
Minden ON K0M 2K0
Tel: (705) 286-1391
Fax: (705) 286-4324

Dundas
Land Registry Office -- REG (Bilingual)
8 - 5th St. West St., PO Box 645
Morrisburg ON K0C 1X0
Tel: (613) 543-2583
Fax: (613) 543-4541

Lennox
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR
2 Dairy Ave, Unit 10 Murphy's Business Centre
Napanee ON K7R 3T1
Tel: (613) 354-3751
Fax: (613) 354-1474

Nipissing
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, ORG (Bilingual)
360 Plouffe Street, Court House
North Bay ON P1B 9L5
Tel: (705) 474-2270
Fax: (705) 495-8511

Dufferin
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, POLARIS, OBC
41 Broadway Ave., Unit #7
Orangeville ON L9W 1J7
Tel: (519) 941-1481
Fax: (519) 941-6444

Ottawa-Carleton
Land Registry Office -- LT, REG, PPSR, CO, ORG, POLARIS (Bilingual)
Court House
161 Elgin Street 4th fl
Ottawa ON K2P 2K1
Tel: (613) 239-1230
Fax: (613) 239-1422

Grey
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR, OBC
1555 16th St E, Suites 1 and 2
Owen Sound ON N4K 5N3
Tel: (519) 376-1637
Fax: (519) 376 1639

Parry Sound
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR
28 Miller Street
Parry Sound ON P2A 1T1
Tel: (705) 746-5816
Fax: (705) 746-6517

Renfrew
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, OBC, POLARIS (Bilingual)
400 Pembroke St E
Pembroke ON K8A 3K8
Tel: (613) 732-8331
Fax: (613) 732-0297

Peterborough
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, CO, POLARIS
300 Water St., 2nd Fl
P.O. Box 7000
Peterborough ON K9J 8M5
Tel: (705) 755-1342
Fax: (705) 755 1343

Prince Edward
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR
1 Pitt Street
PO Box 1310
Picton ON K0K 2T0
Tel: (613) 476-3219
Fax: (613) 476-7908

Grenville
Land Registry Office -- REG
499 Centre Street
P.O. Box 1660
Prescott ON K0E 1T0
Tel: (613) 925-3177
Fax: (613) 925-0302

Russell
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, POLARIS (Bilingual)
1122 Concession St.
PO Box 10
Russell ON K4R 1C7
Tel: (613) 445-2138
Fax: (613) 445-0614

Lambton
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR, CO, OBC
Court House
700 Christina Street North, Suite 102
Sarnia ON N7V 3C2
Tel: (519) 337-2393
Fax: (519) 337-8371

Algoma
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, CO, OBC, ORG (Bilingual)
420 Queen ST E
Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 1Z7
Tel: (705) 253-8887
Fax: (705) 253-9245

Norfolk
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR
530 Queensway W., 2nd Fl
Court House PO Box 9
Simcoe ON N3Y 4K8
Tel: (519) 426-2216
Fax: (519) 426-9627

Niagara North
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, POLARIS, OBC
59 Church St
St. Catharines ON L2R 3C3
Tel: (905) 684-6351
Fax: (905) 684-5874

Elgin
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR
Court House Block
4 Wellington ST
St. Thomas ON N5R 2P2
Tel: (519) 631-301
Fax: (519) 631-8182

Perth
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, POLARIS
5 Huron St.
Stratford ON N5A 5S4
Tel: (519) 271-3343
Fax: (519) 271-2550

Sudbury
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR, LT, CO, ORG, POLARIS, OBC (Bilingual)
199 Larch, St. Ste. 301
Sudbury ON P3E 5P9
Tel: (705) 564-4300
Fax: (705) 564-4148

Thunder Bay
Land Registry Office -- REG, PPSR, LT, CO, OBC, ORG, POLARIS (Bilingual)
189 Red River Rd., Ste. 201
Thunder Bay ON P7B 1A2
Tel: (807) 343-7436
Fax: (807) 343-7439

Toronto Registry
Land Registry Office -- REG, POLARIS, LT (Bilingual)
20 Dundas St W Ste 321
Box 108
Toronto ON M5G 2C2
Tel: (416) 314-4430
Fax: (416)314-4453

Bruce
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, PPSR, OBC
203 Cayley Street
PO Box 1690
Walkerton ON N0G 2V0
Tel: (519) 881-2259
Fax: (519) 881-2322

Niagara South
Land Registry Office -- CO, REG, LT, PPSR, OBC, POLARIS (Bilingual)
200 Division St
Welland ON L3B 4A2
Tel: (905) 735-4011/13
Fax: (905) 735-2430

Durham
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT, ORG, PPSR, CO, OBC, POLARIS
590 Rossland Road E
Whitby ON L1N 9G5
Tel: (905) 665-4007
Fax: (905) 665-5247

Essex
Land Registry Office -- ORG, REG, LT, PPSR, CO, POLARIS (Bilingual)
949 McDougall St., Suite 100
Windsor ON N9A 1L9
Tel: (519) 971-9980
Fax: (519) 971-9937

Oxford
Land Registry Office -- REG, LT PPSR, OBC, POLARIS
75 Graham Street
Woodstock ON N4S 6J8
Tel: (519) 537-6287
Fax: (519) 537-3107

[taxsale]

Rob,

That's quite an extensive list . Thanks for the info!!!

[Gmangg]

I went to the Thunder Bay one today. You could hear a pin drop in there. The person who served me said most of the searches are all done electronically now as I only saw a few people working. I expected a pretty busy place.

[Rob]

Sounds like a good office to get good information on Thunder Bay properties.  Go in with a fresh baked pie one afternoon and I'll bet you can strike up a long conversation on properties. 

[ErnestBidder]

  That is a great list, Rob; the only thing I can add is that each registry office is numbered, so when you see that a property is part x on plan 34Rxxxx, it means that the property is registered in registry office # 34. This is helpful in areas such as Kinmount, where overlapping or confusing boundaries leaves even the people in the municipal office wondering "where the @#$$&**$@@%$& is that property registered, Minden or Peterborough"? It took me two days to get the right answer. I'd advise everyone to go to their local office & get a list of the number of each office. It will help at 2 am.

[Prospector]

Thanks for that extra bit Earnest!

If my LRR has POLARIS, does that mean I can search any property in the province locally? I am on my way out now to get the list of all offices in the province, but thougt I would see if the searches can be done locally to save some extra legwork.

If Franks motto holds true here, would you expect more info from the local offices than what you would get through POLARIS?

Do I have the wrong understanding of what POLARIS is?

[danfreedom]

If anyone needs help doing searches, give me a ring (416.837.6725).  I recently got hooked up with e-reg and it's an absolute time saver (I'm a lawyer, that's how I got it).  The only problem is that it charges $18 for parcel abstracts, instead of $9 at most Land Registry Offices.  But it has many many LRO's at the touch of a click, so you don't have to drive to Thunder Bay. ;-)  Also because I'm a lawyer, it is illegal for me to bid against you for any properties you show interest in (conflict of interest).

And I read in one of these message boards that people are doing PPSA searches.  Here's some free advice: stop wasting your money with PPSA searches.  Most of the value of your bid is in the land/house.  The Tax dept usually only sells the property - i.e. they aren't giving you a bill of sale for the chattels/fixtures becuase they don't usually exercise that right under the Municipal Act.

[ErnestBidder]

  I understand that a lot of RegOffs are not on the electronic system, and that cottage properties are better searched by a local free-lance title searcher. I wonder if the members, as a group, might trade info as to who is a dependable free-lancer, and see if they will give a discount for supplying members, who ask, with duplicate search results.

[Corona]

Wow thats a great compilation listing, does anyone happen to have a list somthing similar for Alberta?

[Rob]

Land Title Offices:

Edmonton

John E. Brownlee Building
10365-97 Street
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
T5J 3W7

Phone: (780) 427-2742
Fax: (780) 422-4290

Hours of operation:
8:15 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday to Friday
E-mail: lto@gov.ab.ca

Calgary

Alberta Government Services Building
710 - 4 Avenue S.W.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2P 0K3

Phone: (403) 297-6511
Fax: (403) 297-8641

Hours of operation:
8:15 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday to Friday
E-mail: lto@gov.ab.ca

[speedfreeksteve]

Just a question.. I have a property across the road from Horseshoe Lake (Seguin Township). I wouldn't mind checking if they have a survey on file for my property and the adjoining ones (if I'm allowed to check those out too).

My question is, can I go to any Land Registry office, or only the one serving the area of that particular property? Logistically I just don't have the free time right now to go up to Parry Sound during regular business hours so I'm hoping someone has a different answer for me than that.

[Frank]

Just a question.. I have a property across the road from Horseshoe Lake (Seguin Township). I wouldn't mind checking if they have a survey on file for my property and the adjoining ones (if I'm allowed to check those out too).

My question is, can I go to any Land Registry office, or only the one serving the area of that particular property? Logistically I just don't have the free time right now to go up to Parry Sound during regular business hours so I'm hoping someone has a different answer for me than that.

It's off to Parry Sound you go, they are the only ones that have your survey on file.  Your survey reference should be on your deed, and it is free to look at...you can also get them to copy it for you for a small fee.  If you want to look at your neighbours and you don't kow their survey number, then you might have to do a pin search on each of them at a cost $8 each, and the results will contain the survey reference numbers - again free to look at.

If you can't make the time, then I would suggest you call the Parry Sound Registry office and ask to speak to a 'free-lance' title searcher.  They can do the work for you for a fraction of what a lawyer would charge.

[aaroncford]

so if i went to the nearest land registry office would i be able to find out who owns a piece of property i'm interested in?  this property is in the longlac area and i have no idea who owns it.  there is a cabin on the property but no one has been there for many years.  i would like to buy it if the owners will sell.  just trying to figure out how to contact the owners.  any help would be appreciated. 
thanks.
 

[Frank]

so if i went to the nearest land registry office would i be able to find out who owns a piece of property i'm interested in?  this property is in the longlac area and i have no idea who owns it.  there is a cabin on the property but no one has been there for many years.  i would like to buy it if the owners will sell.  just trying to figure out how to contact the owners.  any help would be appreciated. 
thanks.
 

Now you are onto it.  You need to determine the PIN number first - they have maps that you can use to locate the property in question and determine the PIN number.  The folks behind the counter are most helpful.  Once you have the PIN then you can get all the info. you need for $8.

You can also go to City Hall and ask to look at their assessment maps.  Then once you get the assessment number for the property, you can ask to see their assessment books, and find the number that corresponds to your property.  The assessment number will also contain the legal description of the property, its assessed value, and the name and address of wherever the tax bill is to be mailed - usually the current owner (but not necessarily so.).

Another place you can get the information is on-line through geo-warehouse.  This isn't something that most people have, but if you are buddies with a realtor they will usually have access to it and can get you the information.

good luck - approaching someone who has let their property run down (and might not even be thinking of selling) can often turn out just the way you wanted it to.  Don't come on like some kind of big-city developer or the price will escalate.

[aaroncford]

Frank,
thanks so much.  if this all works out and i get this place you are more than welcome to come up for the first party. 
thank you again,

aaron