ALTA/NSPS Surveys in Napa, CA

Napa transactions are unusual in what they buy. A downtown hotel, a mixed-use building on First Street, or a production winery with a tasting room is rarely a simple rectangle with a street frontage. Access often crosses a neighboring ranch on an easement written decades ago in language that describes a road by where it used to run. Water lines, wells, and shared laterals cross parcel lines. Utility and pipeline easements, agricultural buffer conditions, and use-permit conditions of approval all shape what a buyer can actually do with the site. An ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey is where those documents stop being a list of exceptions in a title report and start being lines on a map that either burden the improvements or do not.

We plot every record document the title company delivers, walk the site for evidence that contradicts them, and report what we find: fences and vineyard rows off the line, buildings and paving crossing into easements, unrecorded roads in obvious use, and gaps or overlaps between adjoining descriptions. Table A options get selected to fit the deal rather than ordered wholesale. Flood zone classification matters near the Napa River. Zoning setback and height data matters where a buyer is underwriting an expansion. Utility evidence and offsite easements matter wherever the property depends on something it does not own. Where the transaction also needs the building documented, our terrestrial laser scanner captures improvements, parking, and site features in one pass at survey grade.

Record research runs through the Napa County Recorder and the Napa County Surveyor, both in the city of Napa, and includes prior Records of Survey, parcel and subdivision maps, and Corner Records that bear on the boundary. Deliverables are a signed and sealed ALTA/NSPS survey with the certification your underwriter requires, a layered DWG, and, where useful, the point cloud behind it. See our ALTA survey overview and the complete guide to ALTA surveys.