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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling
For a simple mortgage switch at renewal there's no need for a lawyer, you don't even need a lawyer to change lenders/companies mid-term unless it's a slighly complicated deal like you've got a Scotia STEP in which case they've (Scotia) registered a bunch of different things on title.
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Not necessarily true. I do refi's all the time referred by both brokers and banks. Some lenders will do their own legals, but many do not. If you can get the lender to cover costs, great, but it's not common in my experience for them to do so.