ALTA/NSPS Surveys in Richmond, CA

Richmond's commercial market is anchored in heavy real estate: working waterfront and port-related parcels, rail-served industrial land, warehouse and logistics facilities on the flats, and large redevelopment sites assembled from wartime-era industrial use. Title on these properties is rarely simple. Rail easements, pipeline corridors, utility franchises, access reservations, and government-era conveyances accumulate over a century of industrial history, and the 2021 ALTA/NSPS Minimum Standard Detail Requirements require each recorded interest to be plotted against the improvements and occupation actually on the ground. On a logistics acquisition, encroachment analysis extends to spur tracks, fence lines enclosing more or less than the deed, shared truck courts, and utility crossings the record never captured — findings that routinely shape purchase agreements and title endorsements.

Acreage is where terrestrial laser scanning separates decisively from conventional surveying. Our Trimble scanner captures a full warehouse envelope, dock configuration, yard, fencing, rail features, and pavement in one mobilization, producing a survey-grade point cloud a total-station crew could not economically match. Table A items scale accordingly — building dimensions and square footage for big-box structures, trailer and auto parking counts across large yards, substantial features across the site — all computed from the cloud without return trips. Shoreline parcels add mapped liquefaction zones along the bay margin, and we can carry seismic hazard and flood zone status (Table A item 3) onto the survey where the lender wants it. After closing, the point cloud goes to the buyer's engineers for reuse in facility upgrades; long-term settlement or movement concerns can roll into deformation monitoring.

Richmond records in Contra Costa County: title research runs through the Contra Costa County Recorder, and any Record of Survey our boundary resolution requires under Business and Professions Code §8762 is filed with the Contra Costa County Surveyor. On old industrial land where original monuments have been destroyed by decades of construction, B&P Code §8771's monument preservation duty shapes how we document what evidence survives.