St. Albert Land Transfer Tax (2026)

What is the Land Transfer Tax in St. Albert?

The answer is simple: there is no provincial land transfer tax in St. Albert or anywhere in Alberta. When you buy a home in St. Albert, you do not pay the provincial land transfer tax that buyers in Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, and other provinces must pay.

What you do pay is a small Land Title Transfer Registration Fee that goes to the Alberta Land Titles Office. This fee is calculated based on the purchase price and is approximately $400–$550 for most St. Albert homes. This is a government service fee for registering the title in your name — it is not a tax.

St. Albert LTT Savings vs Ontario and BC

Home Price	Alberta (title fee only)	Ontario LTT	Your Savings vs Ontario
$400,000	~$450	~$4,475	~$4,025
$490,000 (median)	~$470	~$6,775	~$6,305
$600,000	~$500	~$8,475	~$7,975
$750,000	~$530	~$11,475	~$10,945

How Alberta Eliminated Land Transfer Tax

Alberta's provincial government repealed its land transfer tax in 1977 as part of a broader move to attract investment and homeownership during the oil boom era. Unlike the federal Goods and Services Tax or provincial income taxes, the land transfer tax never returned to Alberta. Today, only five provinces still charge a full land transfer tax: Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec.

Saskatchewan is the only other Prairie province with no LTT — so both Alberta and Saskatchewan homebuyers enjoy this significant financial advantage over buyers in eastern Canada.

Alberta Land Title Transfer Registration Fee — How It's Calculated

While there's no provincial LTT in Alberta, there is a land title transfer registration fee. For a property purchase, the fee is approximately:

• $50 base fee plus $1 per $5,000 of property value (land portion)
• Additional $50 base fee plus $1.50 per $5,000 for mortgage registration
• Total for a typical St. Albert purchase ($490K): approximately $470–$520

St. Albert Home Buying Resources

For a complete guide to buying in St. Albert, visit our St. Albert home buying guide. For Alberta mortgage rate comparisons, visit bremo.io/best-banks-alberta. For the full Alberta LTT overview, see bremo.io/alberta-land-transfer-tax.

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