We buy Canadian royalty trust units and freehold royalties.

Who buys Canadian royalty trusts and freehold royalties?

Almost nobody, which is the problem we solve. American mineral buyers stop at the border because Canadian interests involve different law, different taxes, and different paperwork, and Canadian buyers rarely bother with small inherited positions held by Americans. If you hold Canadian royalty interests you cannot find a buyer for, Berlin will evaluate them seriously and, where the numbers work, buy them.

What Canadian interests do you look at?

Freehold mineral titles. Unlike the United States, most Canadian minerals belong to the Crown, but freehold minerals, privately owned, mostly in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, do exist, often held by families descended from early settlers or from railway and Hudson's Bay Company land grants. Freehold royalties from producing wells are real, durable income streams, and they can be bought and sold like any mineral interest.

Gross overriding royalties (GORRs). The Canadian cousin of the American ORRI, carved out of leases and farmout agreements. Landmen, geologists, and heirs across the border hold these, and buyers are scarce.

Legacy royalty trust units. The great Canadian royalty trusts (the CanRoy era) mostly converted to corporations after the 2011 tax change, but unitholders still surface holding paper from trusts that converted, wound down, or went private, and smaller private royalty trusts still exist. If you are holding units and cannot even find out what they are worth, that research is exactly what we do, and we will tell you honestly if the answer is "nothing."

How is a cross-border sale different?

Slower and more paperwork, honestly. Canadian land registries work differently (Alberta's Land Titles system, Saskatchewan's ISC), transfers may involve Canadian counsel, and cross-border tax withholding rules apply to both sides. We tell you upfront what the process looks like for your specific interest, we coordinate the Canadian legal work, and the valuation math still comes shown, in writing, like everything we do.

What is a Canadian freehold royalty worth?

The same logic as any royalty: a multiple of the income, adjusted for well decline, commodity mix, and the operator, with a further adjustment for the cross-border friction. Because so few buyers compete for these interests, holders often assume they are worthless or accept the first lowball that ever arrives. Get a real number first: send whatever you have, a royalty statement from a Canadian operator, an old trust certificate, or a land description, through the free valuation form, or call or text 918-984-1645.