British Columbia land title fees for searches, transfers and charges

Search, certificate and image are different services

LTSA lists a search fee, a certification fee for a state of title certificate or other qualifying record, and an electronic image retrieval fee. Select the service by the record or output required. The authority announced a C$0.17 increase for an electronic title search. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3

A mortgage registration and discharge use different items

The April schedule lists C$83.82 for a charge registration and C$33.53 for an ordinary charge cancellation. For those entries, the fee is per described action regardless of the number of indefeasible titles it affects. Source 1 Source 2

A change of address is separately exempt

The general filing or amendment charge rose to C$33.53. The schedule lists a specific no-fee exception for filing a change of address. Other registration requests use their own applicable schedule item. Source 1 Source 2

The schedules identify the treatment of taxes

LTSA says all registration fees are exempt from GST and PST. Other services can carry those taxes where applicable. The amounts here are the authority’s published customer fees for the listed services. Source 1 Source 2

Sources

• LTSA Land Title Practice Manual, earlier statutory service fee schedule
• LTSA current statutory service fee schedule
• LTSA announcement of April 2026 annual fee changes