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Registre foncier du Québec en ligne

by Gouvernement du Québec — Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts · Data service · also known as Québec Land Register, Registre foncier du Québec, SIRF

Official online access to Québec's land register: index of immovables, registered deeds and rights by lot number, run by the provincial government

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Overview

The Registre foncier du Québec en ligne is the Gouvernement du Québec's web service for consulting the provincial land register, administered by the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts. The register has recorded real estate transactions since 1841 and is the authoritative public record of ownership, servitudes, hypothecs and other rights on each cadastral lot. Online users search by lot number (an interactive map helps locate it), read the index of immovables for a lot and open scanned or electronic deeds; notaries and lawyers also file registration requests through the same portal. Consultation is fee-based per document and requires a client account, with payment per consultation. The interface is in French only, documents are images rather than structured data, there is no bulk download or public API, and the service is not intended for mass extraction, so researchers typically use it for targeted title and transaction verification rather than dataset construction.

Editorial note on uncertainty. Fee structure and account requirements are described from the service portal in general terms; current fee schedule was not reviewed.

Capabilities

  • Lookup of the index of immovables by cadastral lot number
  • Access to registered deeds, hypothecs and servitudes
  • Interactive map to find lot numbers
  • Online filing of registration requests for legal professionals
  • Account-based consultation history

Typical workflows

  1. Verify the chain of title and sale price for a comparable property
  2. Confirm encumbrances before an appraisal or purchase

Strengths

  • Authoritative legal record of ownership and transactions
  • Province-wide coverage with historical depth

Limitations

  • Fee per consultation and account required
  • French-only interface; documents are scanned images, not structured data
  • No bulk export or public API

Prerequisites

  • Client account with payment method
  • Cadastral lot number or address to locate it

Who it is for

  • Notaries and lawyers
  • Appraisers and real estate researchers
  • Property owners

Alternatives & comparison

Municipal assessment rolls give valuation and building characteristics for every unit and are partly available as open data, whereas the land register records legal transactions and rights per lot behind a paywall. Centris.ca shows asking prices for brokered listings, not registered transactions.

  • Centris.ca

    Québec's broker-fed real estate listings portal operated by Centris, with for-sale and rental listings, price statistics and a broker directory

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  • Données Québec

    Québec's shared open-data portal where provincial ministries and municipalities publish datasets under a Creative Commons Attribution licence

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  • REALTOR.ca

    Canada's national consumer portal for MLS listings, operated by CREA's REALTOR.ca Canada Inc., with licensed data syndication through the DDF

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  • Rôle d'évaluation foncière (Québec)

    Québec's municipal property assessment rolls: per-unit values and building attributes published by municipalities and as open data by the MAMH

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