Newmarket mixes a historic Main Street core with subdivisions built out over the following decades, and the transactions in each look different. We act on purchases and sales across the town.
Our Thornhill office sits south of Newmarket along Yonge Street, past Aurora and Richmond Hill. Clients can sign with us there in person, and remote identity verification and document signing are also available if you prefer.
Newmarket buyers pay Ontario land transfer tax without Toronto's additional municipal tax.
Newmarket buyers pay the provincial land transfer tax only. There is no Newmarket equivalent of the Toronto municipal land transfer tax.
Central Newmarket's older streets sit alongside newer subdivisions, condominiums, and townhomes built out toward the town's edges.
Around Stonehaven-Wyndham, Woodland Hill, and Summerhill Estates, the housing stock is newer subdivision construction, often with a builder agreement and Tarion coverage still relevant. Closer to the centre of town, older homes raise the survey and permit questions that come with age, and a growing number of condominium and townhome developments add status certificate review to the file.
Properties within Newmarket's Lower Main Street South Heritage Conservation District can be subject to heritage controls affecting exterior changes.
Newmarket's Lower Main Street South Heritage Conservation District covers part of the historic Main Street core. Heritage controls can affect exterior alterations, additions, and demolition, depending on the property and proposed work. If you are buying there with renovation in mind, confirm the property's heritage status before conditions come off.
Ontario tax only
There is no additional Newmarket municipal land transfer tax.
Newmarket buyers pay the Ontario land transfer tax and nothing further. The Toronto municipal land transfer tax does not apply anywhere in York Region.
The provincial tax is graduated against the purchase price and payable on closing. Where you qualify as a first-time buyer, the provincial rebate is claimed at registration and reduces the funds required on closing day.
We review your agreement before the conditions come off, search title, and carry the file through to the day you get the keys.
We answer the buyer's requisitions, arrange the discharge of your existing mortgage, and account for every dollar leaving the transaction.
Whether you are moving lenders, taking equity out, or adding a second charge, we handle the registration and the discharge that follows it.
Adding a spouse, removing a name, transferring to family, or updating title after a death. Each one carries tax and mortgage consequences worth understanding first.
Builder agreements are written for the builder. We read yours as early as we can, and where a statutory rescission right applies, inside that window, while there is still something you can do about it.
In-person signing at our Thornhill office is our standard approach, and remote identity verification and document signing are available if you prefer. Remote signing changes how you meet with us, not the lawyer-led legal work performed on your closing.
We review the transaction and tell you what we need.
Searches, lender work and closing documents are handled by our team.
Sign at our Thornhill office, or remotely if you prefer. We confirm when the transaction closes.
We act throughout Newmarket, including:
No. Only the provincial land transfer tax applies. Toronto is the only municipality in Ontario with a municipal land transfer tax, so the same purchase price costs less to close in Newmarket than it does in the city.
It can. Part of the historic Main Street core is within the Lower Main Street South Heritage Conservation District. Heritage controls can affect exterior alterations, additions, and demolition, depending on the property and proposed work. If your plans depend on being able to renovate, confirm the property's heritage status while the agreement is still conditional.
It happens in Newmarket, as it does elsewhere in York Region. Some freehold townhome developments sit within a common-element condominium corporation that maintains shared roads, visitor parking, or landscaping. You own the home outright, and you also pay fees and are entitled to a status certificate, which we review the same way we would for a conventional condominium.
Our Thornhill office is available for in-person signing, or if you prefer, we can complete identity verification and document signing remotely. Remote signing changes how you meet with us, not the lawyer-led legal work performed on your closing.
Send us the agreement and we will confirm the tax, the searches, and what the file needs before closing.
