ALTA/NSPS Surveys in Concord, CA

Concord is the most active commercial transaction market we serve in Contra Costa County: office buildings around the downtown BART stations, retail centers along the major corridors, and an aging stock of commercial and industrial buildings that is steadily repositioning — each sale or refinance typically triggering an ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey to the 2021 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements. Concord also carries a due-diligence fact the other cities on our list do not: the Concord fault crosses the city and is zoned under the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act. The fault zone itself is a state geologic designation rather than a survey matter, but buyers and lenders routinely ask us to show the mapped zone boundary relative to the surveyed parcel as a negotiated detail, and it is worth knowing before the appraisal, not after.

Repositioning deals are where survey detail earns its fee. Concord's postwar commercial buildings have accumulated decades of additions, fence lines, shared driveways, and informal parking arrangements, and the 2021 standards require us to document that evidence of use and possession alongside the record boundary. We resolve title lines from recorded maps and deeds at the Contra Costa County Recorder and check our monument findings against the Contra Costa County Surveyor's records in Martinez, then plot every locatable Schedule B exception so the title officer can underwrite with a complete picture. Parcels near the former Concord Naval Weapons Station redevelopment area get particular scrutiny, since surrounding ownership and easement patterns there are actively changing.

Our Trimble terrestrial laser scanner captures a full retail center or industrial site — buildings, docks, striping, utility surface evidence — in one visit. Table A items 6(b), 7, 9, and 8 come straight out of the point cloud, and the cloud is reusable after closing for tenant improvement or scan-to-BIM work.