Selling · Certificate of location · Dollard-des-Ormeaux
In Dollard-des-Ormeaux, the 1975 cottage almost always has a pool or a closed carport that is not on the old certificate. Here is what the surveyor checks, what it costs and when to order it.
In Dollard-des-Ormeaux, the certificate of location is the document the notary and the lender require to close a sale: prepared by a land surveyor, it describes the current state of the premises (boundaries, buildings, servitudes, encroachments, compliance). The seller provides it at their expense if it is outdated or inaccurate. Dollard is a city of 1960s to 1990s cottages and semi-detached homes on curved streets and corner lots, where an in-ground pool, a shed, a closed carport or an extension was added over forty years: the typical case where a certificate of less than ten years is still outdated because the property has changed. Count $1,200 to $2,500 and 4 to 8 weeks.
It is the land surveyor's report describing the current state of the property: lot boundaries, position of the buildings, servitudes, encroachments and compliance with by-laws. In a sale, the standard rule of the brokerage forms (clause 10.1) requires the seller to provide, at their expense, a certificate that reflects the current state of the premises; if it is outdated or inaccurate, the new one is on the seller. The law gives it no expiry date: the test is accuracy, but notaries and lenders in practice require a certificate of at most about ten years with no change since (pool, shed, extension, fence, cadastral renovation). The full detail is on our page certificate of location in Quebec.
Dollard-des-Ormeaux (QPAREB's northern West Island sector, a $760,000 median in the second quarter of 2026, 42 days, 502 houses active, the island's widest choice) is a city of family cottages and semi-detached homes built between 1960 and 1995 on curved streets, with many corner lots. Over forty years, the owners added the in-ground pool, the shed, the closed carport, the solarium and the rear extension: each of those additions makes the previous certificate outdated, even a recent one, and the surveyor checks the setbacks of those structures against the City's by-laws, which are stricter on corner lots where two street frontages apply. On semi-detached homes, the party wall and the fences between the two lots are checked, and a fence built a few centimetres on the wrong side is the most frequent encroachment. Along boulevard des Sources, Saint-Jean and the 40, servitudes of public utilities appear on the certificate, as do the servitudes of drainage in the western sectors built in the 1980s and 1990s. With 502 competing houses and a buyer who views ten homes before offering, the seller whose certificate is ready removes a condition that the others still carry.
| Ouest-de-l'Île-Nord (QPAREB, Q2 2026) | Median | 1 year | 5 years | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-family | $760,000 | 1% | 22 % | 42 |
| Condo | $418,500 | 2% | 27 % | 57 |
Count generally $1,200 to $2,500 depending on the property and the region, and above all 4 to 8 weeks of delay. That is the number one reason we ask our sellers to order it as soon as they decide to sell, not at the promise to purchase: a certificate that arrives late delays the notary, and a certificate that reveals an encroachment at the last minute derails the sale. The shed on the neighbour's line or the pool too close to the boundary are discovered here, not after signing.
If it is less than about ten years old AND nothing has changed (no construction, extension, pool, fence, cadastral operation or new by-law), it generally passes with the notary and the lender. Otherwise, plan on a new certificate.
The seller, under the standard clause of the brokerage forms, if theirs is outdated or inaccurate. If their certificate reflects the current state of the premises and the buyer or their lender demands a new one anyway, it is on the buyer.
4 to 8 weeks in 2026 depending on the workload of the region's land surveyors. Order it as soon as you decide to sell.
Also available in French: version française de ce guide.
Published September 7, 2026 by the Loaa & Manseur team, the number 1 team at RE/MAX Platine in 2024 and 2025, 6th RE/MAX team in Quebec, 15th in Canada and in the global top 50 according to the official RE/MAX ranking. Tell us about your project.
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