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The rules aren't the same everywhere. Here's what's genuinely different depending on where you're buying.
Home to Canada's only municipal land transfer tax, on top of the provincial one — and specific rules if you're buying in Toronto.
Read the guide →BC's Property Transfer Tax uses its own bracket structure, and either a lawyer or a notary can handle your closing — a genuine difference from Ontario.
Read the guide →No land transfer tax at all — Alberta charges a much smaller Land Titles registration fee instead, one of the most genuinely distinctive rules in the country.
Read the guide →Quebec's civil law system means a notary — not a lawyer — handles your closing, and the province's own transfer duty ('welcome tax') is set partly by your municipality.
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