{"id":52,"date":"2026-09-16T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/joeannsellshomes-ca\/2026\/09\/16\/do-you-need-a-property-survey\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:00:00","slug":"do-you-need-a-property-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/16\/do-you-need-a-property-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Need a Property Survey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/joeann-chabrol\/property-survey-need-remotion-videos-89f4\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A property survey identifies legal boundaries using title records, registered plans, and on-site markers, helping show where land begins and ends beyond visible fences.<br \/>\nTitle insurance helps manage problems after closing, while a survey can reveal boundary issues earlier, giving buyers time to renegotiate, request repairs, or walk away.<br \/>\nMost typical homebuyers may not need a new survey, but one is often worth it before building, renovating, severing a lot, or resolving disputes.<br \/>\nOlder surveys can still show legal boundaries, yet they may miss newer fences, decks, pools, or additions, so confirm whether existing documents still fit.<br \/>\nAcross Canada, most residential surveys cost $1.6K-$3.5K, and drones may aid mapping, but legal boundaries still require a licensed surveyor\u2019s on-site certification.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A property survey identifies legal boundaries using title records, registered plans, and on-site markers, helping show where land begins and ends beyond visible fences. Title insurance helps manage problems after closing, while a survey can reveal boundary issues earlier, giving buyers time to renegotiate, request repairs, or walk away. Most typical homebuyers may not need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}