Property Transfer
ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey

The transfer of property or property rights occurs continuously around the world. These transfers could involve the property rights changing from one owner to another, modification of rights between owners, or modification of rights related to financing.

To be of any value a claim to any property must be accompanied by a verifiable and legal property description. Such a description usually makes use of natural or manmade boundaries such as seacoasts, rivers, streams, the crests of ridges, lakeshores, highways, roads, and railroad tracks, and/or purpose-built markers such as stones, surveyor's posts, fences, official government surveying marks, and so forth. In many cases, a description refers to one or more lots on a plat, a map of property boundaries kept in public records.

Cadastral or boundary surveying: a survey that establishes or re-establishes boundaries of a parcel using a legal description. It involves the setting or restoration of monuments or markers at the corners or along the lines of the parcel. These take the form of iron rods, pipes, or concrete monuments in the ground, or nails set in concrete or asphalt. The ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey is a standard proposed by the American Land Title Association and the National Society of Professional Surveyors. It incorporates elements of the boundary survey, mortgage survey, and topographic survey.

TerraMark can provide assistance in every aspect of the transfer of property. This includes supporting Clients such as individual homeowners, attorneys, corporations, developers, lending institutions, title companies and government entities.