Expert Land Surveyors in Kelowna, BC

A building location certificate is an official document prepared by a land surveyor and is also referred to as a mortgage or surveyor’s certificate. This document depicts the dimensions of the property and improvements along with registered charges such as easements, rights-of-way or covenants. They can include depictions of encroachments onto the property and encroachments by improvements on the property onto neighbouring properties. These certificates are essentially house location plans and are often required by banks to complete financial arrangements with the purchase of a house. A lot of banks will ask for this document when you are buying a house, so if they request a building location certificate, you will have to provide them with a survey plan that shows the lot, any structures and rights-of-way on the lot, along with any encroachments related to the building.