How to transfer title of real estate to trust? Here are the deed forms to do that.You must pay the Real Property Transfer Tax (RPTT) on sales, grants, assignments, transfers or surrenders of real property in New York City. You will need to sign a deed and related transfer documents conveying the property from yourself individually to yourself as trustee of your Living Trust. Enter the location of the property that is transferred or the location of the property in which an economic interest is transferred. Our real estate attorneys are experts at helping New Yorkers transfer deeds in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Most cooperatives will allow you to transfer your apartment to your trust, the board and their attorney will require that you execute a number of documents. If you own real estate, you will need to execute a new deed transferring ownership from your individual name to that of your Trust. Interests in a trust which owns or leases real property. See Form TP-584-NYC-I, Instructions for Form TP-584-NYC, before completing this form.