One search. Every public record.
Boundaries, zoning, permits, surveys, and more sit on a dozen separate sites. Bakers pulls them onto one parcel-centred map, each record traced back to its source.
Everything is public. Nothing is in one place.
Before any off-title work begins, your team has to understand the property. The data to do that is all public, but it's spread across municipal and agency sites that were never built to talk to each other, so the same legwork repeats on every file.
Public data, scattered across portals
Zoning, assessment, permits, tax status, flood and conservation records each live on a different municipal or agency site. Building a picture of one property means opening a dozen tabs and re-keying what you find, which is slow and ripe for error.
Every municipality navigates differently
Each site is laid out its own way, with its own search quirks and its own place to bury the record you need. Knowing where to click is muscle memory your team rebuilds for every new jurisdiction.
No single picture of the property
Even once it's gathered, the data sits in separate windows instead of on the property itself, with no one view of the parcel, its boundaries, and what surrounds it.
Bakers Property Search ends the tab-hopping: every public record on one map, with satellite imagery and street view, so the property comes into focus the moment you open the file.
Search once. See the whole property.
Search an address and Bakers brings the property together on one view, on the parcel, not across twelve tabs. The same view every clerk and lawyer opens, on every file.
A plain-language property summary
A Preamble on every address: use, units, lot size, and construction, set out for your team to confirm.
Every off-title record, on the parcel
Boundaries, adjacent lands, zoning, permits, violations, development, and heritage, drawn from municipal records and mapped onto the property.
Surveys, ready to order
Bakers flags when a registered easement affects the property, and through our Protect Your Boundaries partnership lets your team order the surveys on file, without leaving the property.
Concerns, researched and surfaced
Bakers researches the property across public sources, reads through what it finds, and surfaces concerns worth a closer look, like multiplex-conversion risk or environmental contamination, each tied back to its source.
The concerns a title search never shows.
Much of what matters about a property sits off title: a gas station across the street, a former dry cleaner on the block, flooding the neighbours all know about. Bakers researches each property across the public web and writes back what it finds, with the source on every line.
- Reads across maps, municipal data, registries, news, and community sources.
- Writes a plain-language summary of each concern, in the language of the file.
- Cites the source on every finding, and learns from your team's thumbs up or down.
Nearby gas station
An Esso station operates directly across the street at 1605 Eglinton Ave W, adjacent to the property's west lot line.
Former dry cleaner on the block
City directories list a dry cleaner at 78 Lanark Ave into the late 1990s, a common source of soil and groundwater contamination.
Recurring flooding reported nearby
Residents on local forums describe basement flooding along the block after heavy rain; the rear of the lot screens within a regulated area.
Every record on the map traces back to a source.
Three sources keep the map honest: public municipal records, Bakers researching each property across public sources, and corrections from the firms using it day to day. Every field is attributed to its source, so your team confirms what it already knows instead of re-gathering it by hand.
Municipal records
Public municipal records are brought into one property database and mapped onto the parcel, so it is all in front of you in minutes, not an afternoon of portals.
Public-web research
Bakers researches each property across public sources and reads through what it finds, adding context and surfacing concerns the raw municipal records do not show, each tied back to its source.
Feedback from your team
Anything Bakers surfaces, a property summary or a flagged concern, can be confirmed or corrected with a thumbs up or down, and that feedback sharpens what shows up over time.
Surveys and easements, built into the file.
Most off-title tools stop at the registry parcel. Through our partnership with Protect Your Boundaries, Bakers flags when a registered easement affects the property and lets your team order the surveys on file, without leaving the property.
Four pains. Every firm feels them.
Solo, boutique, or full commercial practice, the same four pains show up, just at different intensities. None of them are about skill; they are problems of fragmentation and repetition. Property Search is built to answer each one.
Fragmented information
File data is scattered across document systems, municipal and authority portals, and spreadsheets, with no consolidated, current view of where a file stands.
Every public record resolves onto one parcel-centred view. The consolidated picture you never had is the default screen.
A legal duty, unevenly met
Off-title searches are a professional obligation. When the full scope is spread across scattered portals, it is easy to lose track of, and that gap is quiet liability.
Search makes the full scope visible by default, so nothing falls through the gaps between portals.
Knowledge that walks out the door
Off-title know-how lives in one or two people. When the clerk who truly understands it leaves, the knowledge goes with them and scattered documents remain.
The instructions for where to look and what to order live in the product, not in one person's head, so the firm's process survives any one departure.
The report-back obligation
Firms must deliver a summary to the client of what was searched and any concerns raised, making off-title a compliance artifact, not just internal work.
Every record is attributed and every result recorded, so the client report is drawn from what was actually searched, not reconstructed after the fact.
The municipal data Search draws from.
Search maps municipal open data onto the property, and this coverage grows from real file demand. It is the property data Search draws from, separate from the Off-title Library, which holds the documented instructions for each search.
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Your team stays in control.
Bakers organizes the off-title work. The legal decisions and the file stay firmly with your team.