Warranty Deed in Maine

A warranty deed transfers real estate with the seller's promise that the title is good. Before you record it, check your state's signing and recording rules below and your county recorder's formatting rules (margins, preparer and return-address blocks, transfer-tax forms) — recorders reject deeds that miss them.

What Maine law says

Signing and recording a deed	Before a deed can be recorded at the registry of deeds, it must be acknowledged by the grantor (or one of them, or their attorney) before a notary public or a Maine attorney, or other listed officers; an acknowledgment meeting the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts must be accepted (33 M.R.S. §203). A deed offered for recording must be accompanied by a declaration of value on the State Tax Assessor's form, showing the tax map and parcel number (and taxpayer ID numbers for business grantors and grantees) and, if exempt from transfer tax, the reason (36 M.R.S. §4641-D). The transfer tax rate was not read for this entry. Source: 33 M.R.S. §203; 36 M.R.S. §4641-D
Signing and recording a deed	A deed must be acknowledged (notarized) by the grantor before a notary public, a Maine attorney, or another authorized officer before it can be recorded. It must be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county where the land lies to be effective against third parties. Most deeds must be accompanied by a declaration of value, and a real estate transfer tax of $2.20 per $500 of value is charged (split equally between grantor and grantee), with an extra $3.80 per $500 on value over $1,000,000. Recording: https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/33/title33sec201.html; tax: https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/36/title36sec4641-A.html; declaration of value: https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/36/title36sec4641-D.html Source: 33 M.R.S. §§ 201, 203; 36 M.R.S. §§ 4641-A, 4641-B, 4641-D

Signing and recording a deed

Before a deed can be recorded at the registry of deeds, it must be acknowledged by the grantor (or one of them, or their attorney) before a notary public or a Maine attorney, or other listed officers; an acknowledgment meeting the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts must be accepted (33 M.R.S. §203). A deed offered for recording must be accompanied by a declaration of value on the State Tax Assessor's form, showing the tax map and parcel number (and taxpayer ID numbers for business grantors and grantees) and, if exempt from transfer tax, the reason (36 M.R.S. §4641-D).

The transfer tax rate was not read for this entry.

Source: 33 M.R.S. §203; 36 M.R.S. §4641-D

Signing and recording a deed

A deed must be acknowledged (notarized) by the grantor before a notary public, a Maine attorney, or another authorized officer before it can be recorded. It must be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county where the land lies to be effective against third parties. Most deeds must be accompanied by a declaration of value, and a real estate transfer tax of $2.20 per $500 of value is charged (split equally between grantor and grantee), with an extra $3.80 per $500 on value over $1,000,000.

Recording: https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/33/title33sec201.html; tax: https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/36/title36sec4641-A.html; declaration of value: https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/36/title36sec4641-D.html

Source: 33 M.R.S. §§ 201, 203; 36 M.R.S. §§ 4641-A, 4641-B, 4641-D

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Recording requested by and return to: [name and mailing address]

WARRANTY DEED

For [consideration], [grantor name(s)], of [grantor address] ("Grantor"), grants and conveys to [grantee name(s)], of [grantee address] ("Grantee"), [how grantees take title], the following real property in [county] County, [state]:

Legal description: [full legal description copied from the current deed]

Commonly known as: [street address] Parcel / tax ID: [parcel number]

Grantor warrants the title to the property, as provided by [state] law, subject only to: [exceptions, e.g. easements and restrictions of record, current taxes].

Signed on [date signed]. Grantor signature(s): ____________________

[Acknowledgment before a notary public, in the form your state requires, and any witness signatures your state requires]

Send tax statements to: [name and address for tax bills]

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