ALTA/NSPS Surveys in Novato, CA

Novato holds most of Marin County's larger commercial and industrial inventory, and the transactions follow the geography. Along the Redwood Boulevard and Highway 101 corridor there are retail centers, auto rows, and office buildings on parcels assembled over decades from older rural descriptions. At Hamilton and around Bel Marin Keys, business-park and light-industrial parcels sit on ground with a redevelopment history, an unusual density of utility and access easements, and neighbors that include levees, restored wetland, and public open space. North and west of town the commercial parcels shade into acreage where the record description may still call for fences, creeks, and ridgelines. A buyer or lender arriving from out of the area rarely expects the record complexity attached to a straightforward-looking site.

Our ALTA work starts with the title commitment. Every recorded exception gets plotted or explicitly reported as unplottable, and we chase the underlying documents through Marin County records rather than accepting a schedule at face value. Field work locates the improvements, parking counts, visible and marked utilities, and evidence of use by others — worn access, drainage that runs onto a neighbor, structures and paving that cross a line. Where the site is large or heavily improved, we scan it: the same visit that produces the survey base produces a point cloud that answers the questions asked during due diligence without a second mobilization. Table A selections, including the flood zone determination, zoning setback graphics, contours, and utility items, are set with your counsel before we mobilize.

You receive a signed and sealed ALTA/NSPS survey in PDF and DWG on the current standards, with the certification worded for your named parties. See our complete guide to ALTA surveys and, where terrain is part of the diligence, Novato topographic surveys.