We had a couple waive an owner’s policy that would have cost $815. They’ve spent near $20,000 in attorney fees defending title to their home.
The seller sat across from them and signed closing documents. He brought a notarized Power...
Title insurance protects property ownership + marketability, but we tend to overlook the value of the owner’s policy for buyers who one day become sellers.
We had to inform a seller that our title search revealed two unexpected mortgage...
Even the most diligent of title searches cannot uncover 100 percent of title defects 100 percent of the time. Title insurance not only covers mistakes made during a title search, it covers many more issues that a title search may not reveal. ...
A recent Demotech study may reveal yet another reason for homebuyers to obtain owner’s title insurance – especially if you are buying a home in the District of Columbia.
Title insurance companies take a loss of $215 on average in Maryland...
Part 6 of a series Fraud is a common cause of title claims, and it's practically impossible to detect in many cases because there is no way for the title agent to know about the fraud until after the fact. As we've discussed before, title...