Your closing is handled for a single flat fee — disbursements included, no hourly billing, no add-ons, no surprises at the table. Because every transaction is a little different, we confirm your exact fee with you the moment you reach out — in writing, before any work begins.
Every closing is one flat fee that already includes the standard disbursements — title searches, registration, photocopying, and courier. No separate line items, no hourly billing, no add-ons. What we quote you is what you pay.
Single home, condo, or new build
One flat fee, confirmed in writing before any work begins.
House or condo
One flat fee, confirmed in writing before any work begins.
Coordinated timelines and closing
Both files handled together for one bundled flat fee — less than booking them separately.
A property you already own
One flat fee, confirmed in writing before any work begins.
Remote signing is included at no extra charge for every transaction, anywhere in Alberta. Same lawyer, same flat fee, no drive.
No hourly billing. No surprise line items. No "extras" added on at closing. We quote you one flat fee for your transaction, in writing, before any work starts — and that's the fee. If anything about your file is unusual, we'll talk it through with you and confirm everything up front, never after the fact.
Separate from your flat legal fee, every closing involves some third-party and government costs paid to others — not to us. We walk you through all of them before you sign, so there are no surprises.
Disbursements are the out-of-pocket costs a law firm incurs to run your file: title searches at the Land Titles office, registration charges, photocopying, and couriering documents back and forth. At many firms these appear as separate line items added to the quoted legal fee at the end — which is how a quote that sounded reasonable becomes an invoice that doesn't. The fee was real; it just wasn't the whole number.
Our flat fee already contains the standard disbursements — title searches, registration, photocopying, and courier. There is one number, it is confirmed in writing before any work begins, and it does not grow between the quote and the closing. The courier line matters more than it sounds: because every remote signing involves paper originals travelling to you and back, a per-courier charge would penalize the very clients the service is built for. It is in the fee, both directions, every file.
What the flat fee does not contain — and no legal fee anywhere can — are the amounts paid to third parties: government registration levies, your prorated share of property taxes and condo fees, title insurance premiums, GST on new builds. Those exist on every Alberta closing regardless of which lawyer you hire. The difference is whether your lawyer shows them to you at the start or lets you find them on the statement of adjustments. We itemize them at quote stage, and the free closing cost calculator shows them instantly — no email required.
Take a $450,000 resale home purchase with a mortgage. Alberta has no provincial land transfer tax, so the government's share is the Land Titles registration levy: $50 plus $5 per $5,000 of value, the same formula for both the transfer and the mortgage registration, effective October 20, 2024 (source: alberta.ca, verified June 2026).
Why flat-fee at all? After 20 years and more than 10,000 Alberta closings, the files are predictable enough to price honestly up front — a routine purchase, sale, or refinance follows a known path, and hourly billing on a known path mostly rewards slowness. The honest caveat: genuinely unusual files exist. An estate sale, a private lender, a title tangled by an old divorce. When your file is one of those, we say so at quote stage and confirm the adjusted flat fee in writing before any work begins — never as a surprise at the closing table. And if you would rather sign in person than by video, the Edmonton office at 218, 10113-104 Street NW is available on request — same lawyer, same flat fee.
Last reviewed: June 2026. Government fees cited are verified against alberta.ca as of the review date.
Short answers below; the full FAQ and the how it works page cover the rest of the process.
We charge one flat fee per transaction — purchase, sale, sale-plus-purchase bundle, or refinance — with standard disbursements already included. Because every file differs slightly, we confirm your exact fee in writing before any work begins. The free calculator gives you an instant itemized estimate, no email required.
Yes — amounts paid to third parties, not to us: the Land Titles registration levy, prorated property tax and condo fee adjustments, title insurance when used, GST on new builds, and your lender's discharge fee on a sale. These exist on every Alberta closing regardless of lawyer. We itemize them at quote stage so the statement of adjustments holds no surprises.
No. Remote signing is included at no extra charge for every transaction, anywhere in Alberta — the video meeting, the lawyer's walkthrough of each document, and the courier for paper originals both ways are all inside the flat fee. In-person signing at the Edmonton office is available on request at the same fee.
Before any work begins. You reach out by phone, form, or email, we ask a few questions about the transaction, and we confirm your flat fee in writing — usually within a few hours. A lawyer reviews every intake the same day, and the file opens within one business hour.
Yes — the bundled flat fee for handling both files together is less than booking a sale and a purchase separately. The bundle also coordinates the two closing dates so your sale proceeds arrive in trust before your purchase funds are due, with one lawyer and one point of contact across both files.
Tell us about your transaction and we'll confirm your exact flat fee — usually within a few hours.