How to Sign Real Estate Documents for U.S. Property While Abroad

If you are living, working, or traveling in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, or elsewhere outside the United States, you may be wondering how to sign real estate documents from abroad when the property is located in the U.S.

Remote Online Notarization can make the process much easier by allowing you to complete your notarization online without returning to the United States.

Remote Online Notarization (RON) allows you to meet with a notary online, sign your documents remotely, and complete the notarization through secure live audio-video technology.

Signing U.S. Real Estate Documents From Another Country

Real estate transactions often involve documents prepared by an attorney, title company, lender, or another party involved in the transaction. Some documents may require notarization, while others may simply require your signature.

Remote Online Notarization allows you to complete your signing from abroad without being physically present in the United States.

This can be especially helpful when you need to complete documents involving the sale, purchase, transfer, financing, or another transaction involving property located anywhere in the U.S.

How Does Remote Online Notarization Work?

Your documents should be prepared before your appointment. If they were provided by an attorney, title company, lender, or other party involved in the transaction, follow the instructions they provided for completing the documents.

During your online session, you will meet with the notary through live audio-video communication, complete identity verification, and sign your documents electronically. The notary then completes the notarization electronically.

You do not need to be a U.S. citizen to use Remote Online Notarization.

What If Your Documents Need to Be Returned on Paper?

Even though your notarization is completed online, the attorney, title company, lender, or other receiving party may need the completed documents returned as a physical paper package.

This is where Paper-Out comes in.

Paper-Out converts your electronically notarized documents into a physical paper package. A Certificate of Authenticity is attached to the electronically notarized document, and the completed documents are printed, prepared, securely packaged, and shipped to the requested address.

This allows you to complete your notarization from abroad while still having the physical documents delivered where they need to go in the U.S.

What If You Have an Entire Signing Package?

Real estate transactions can involve multiple documents that need to be completed together. Some may require notarization, while others may require only your signature.

Crutch Notary Services offers a Multi-Document Paper-Out Package for signing packages containing 7–10 total documents.

The Multi-Document Paper-Out Package includes:

• Certificates of Authenticity for all notarial acts/seals in the package

• Printing of the complete signing package, including non-notarized documents

• Document preparation and assembly

• Secure packaging for shipment

• UPS Ground shipping with tracking

This is especially convenient when you are outside the United States and the completed physical package needs to be returned to an attorney, title company, lender, or other receiving party in the U.S.

Complete Your Signing From Abroad

You don't have to arrange for documents to be shipped internationally back and forth just because you are outside the United States.

Your notarization can be completed remotely. If the completed documents need to be returned on paper, your Paper-Out package can be prepared and shipped directly to the designated recipient in the United States.

That means you can handle documents for property located anywhere in the U.S. while you are living or traveling abroad.

Before Your Appointment

Before your appointment, review any instructions provided by your attorney, title company, lender, or other party handling the transaction. Your documents should be prepared and ready for signing.

Crutch Notary Services performs the requested notarizations and Paper-Out services. Questions about the legal content of your documents or how they should be completed should be directed to the attorney or other party handling your transaction.

Need to Sign Real Estate Documents for U.S. Property While Abroad?

Crutch Notary Services provides Remote Online Notarization for clients in the U.S. and abroad, along with Paper-Out and Certificate of Authenticity services when physical documents need to be returned.

You can complete your notarization remotely and, when needed, have your completed Paper-Out package prepared and shipped with tracking directly to the appropriate U.S. recipient.