Who pays for the owner’s policy in Plantation?
The buyer customarily pays for the owner’s policy in Plantation.
That is the custom in Broward County, and so in Plantation. Custom is not law. The purchase contract decides it, and in a negotiated deal either side can end up paying. Read the contract before assuming which line it falls on.
How the custom runs in the other counties is on who pays for title insurance in Florida.
What title insurance costs on a Plantation purchase
The same as anywhere in Florida — the premium is promulgated.
- Owner’s policy, $500,000
- $2,575
- Original rate, R. 69O-186.003(1)(a)
- At the reissue rate
- $1,530
- Where the prior title was insured and conditions are met
- Lender’s policy alongside
- $125
- Our charge; the rule’s minimum is $25
The Office of Insurance Regulation sets it by rule under Fla. Stat. § 627.782, so the premium on a Plantation policy is the figure it would be anywhere in the state. The Florida title insurance rates are printed in full on the calculator, with the rule beside them, and the closing cost calculator prices a specific Plantation address off the Broward County property appraiser’s record.
More detail on what title insurance costs
The reissue rate applies where the owner’s or the seller’s own title was insured and the rule’s conditions are met. The rule sets $25 as the least a lender’s policy issued at the same time can be. That $25 is a minimum, not a price: Bayit Title charges $125 to issue the policy alongside the owner’s, and that is the figure the estimate prints. Where the loan is larger than the owner’s amount, the coverage above it adds the difference between the original rate at the loan amount and at the owner’s amount.
Read from Fla. Admin. Code R. 69O-186.003 on September 14, 2026. The rule was last amended January 27, 2002. Tell us if a figure here does not match what you are quoted and we will check it against the rule again.
Documentary stamp tax on a Plantation sale
Taxed by the state, at the rate that applies in Broward County.
This is the rate in 66 of the 67 counties; Miami-Dade is the exception. The stamps are charged on each part of $100, so they round up. Which side pays each is decided by the purchase contract.
A cash purchase carries neither mortgage tax. The Florida doc stamp tax calculator works it out for a specific price and loan.
More detail on documentary stamp tax
Deed stamps. 70¢ per $100 of consideration, or part of $100. Charged on each part of $100, so the figure rounds up, not down.
Mortgage stamps. 35¢ per $100 of the amount secured, or part of $100. The $2,450 cap in § 201.08(1)(a) is on the tax on a note or other written obligation to pay money. There is no cap on the tax on a mortgage recorded against Florida property.
Intangible tax. 2 mills on each dollar secured — $2 per $1,000. One time, on the obligation the mortgage secures.
Each figure was read from the statute that sets it on September 14, 2026 and is linked to its section. Which county ch. 83-220 describes comes from the Department of Revenue’s documentary stamp tax guidance. Rates change by act of the Legislature — if one of these no longer matches what you are being charged, tell us and we will correct it.
Where a Plantation deed is recorded
Plantation is in Broward County, so the deed records with the Broward County Records, Taxes and Treasury Division, not with the city.
- First page
- $10.00
- Then $8.50 a page
- A 3-page deed
- $27
- Same at every office
- A 25-page mortgage
- $214
- Same at every office
Charged by the page, at a rate the statute sets for every office in Florida — Fla. Stat. § 28.24(13).
This office does not publish a statement about how long recording takes, so we do not print one. On a file with a tight timeline, ask us what the office is doing that week.
More detail on recording
Recording, first page: $10.00. $5.00 service charge, plus $1.00 to the Public Records Modernization Trust Fund, plus $4.00. Fla. Stat. § 28.24(13)(a), (d)1., (e)
Recording, each page after the first: $8.50. $4.00 service charge, plus 50¢ to the trust fund, plus $4.00. Fla. Stat. § 28.24(13)(b), (d)2., (e)
Indexing, per name over four: $1.00. Reached by a deed with several grantors, or by a mortgage naming a trust. Fla. Stat. § 28.24(13)(c)
The office’s own fee schedule covers the other things it does — certified copies, searches, its own e-recording arrangements — and a third-party e-recording vendor may add a fee of its own, which is not the office’s charge and not this.
Read from the statute on September 14, 2026. If a charge here no longer matches what you are being charged, tell us and we will correct it.
The municipal lien search in Plantation
A title search reads Broward County’s records. What the City of Plantation knows takes a search of its own.
None of these is in the official records. They are found by a separate municipal lien search directed to the city itself, and we order one on every file. What it turns up goes to you in writing, with what clearing it would take, as soon as it comes back.
Where the City of Plantation publishes it: lien search, code enforcement and permit records.
- Lien search
- The City’s lien search costs $52.50 per folio in 5 to 7 business days, or $125 for 2-day expedited service. It shows only liens the City has placed, such as code enforcement, lot mowing, sidewalk repair, special assessment, unsafe structure and outstanding water and sewer bill liens. Source: Lien search
- Lien reductions
- A request to reduce a code fine costs $500, non-refundable. The Mayor or Special Magistrate considers it only once the property is in compliance, and only once per case. Source: Lien reductions
- Water accounts
- An owner closing a City utility account because of a sale must provide the executed settlement statement or warranty deed. The deposit is applied to the final balance, and anything still owed is billed to the customer. Source: Water accounts
- Utility balances
- A new utility customer may have to pay unpaid balances left by other customers at the service address before service starts, and some properties get City water but not sewer. Source: Utility balances
- Assessments
- Plantation has no fire assessment fee, the City says. The “Old Plantation Drainage” charge on tax bills, based on acreage, belongs to a special district in charge of secondary drainage. Source: Assessments
- Water liens
- Unpaid City water bills are the owner’s debt and a lien equal to taxes, even on an account a tenant opened. A former renter’s bill on an account only that renter contracted for is the exception, unless the present owner or tenant benefited from the service. Source: Water liens
- Stormwater fees
- The owner always owes the City’s stormwater fee. Unpaid, it becomes a lien with interest, equal to taxes and ahead of every other lien. Source: Stormwater fees
- Reductions by the Mayor
- If an offer covers at least 25% of a code fine plus all the City’s costs and attorney’s fees, the Mayor can reduce the fine and release the lien. Among the factors weighed is whether the lien is holding up a sale. Source: Reductions by the Mayor
- Abandoned property reductions
- A fine reduction request normally needs proof that every cited violation has been corrected. The code lets the City consider one sooner when the property has been abandoned and needs rehabilitation. Source: Abandoned property reductions
- Vacation rentals
- A vacation rental registration and certificate of compliance become void when the property is sold or otherwise transferred. The new owner has to file a separate application. Source: Vacation rentals
- Foreclosure registration
- A lender that starts a foreclosure must inspect the property and, if it is vacant, register it with Code Enforcement within 10 calendar days, at $250 a year. The registration renews before October 1 and can’t be transferred. Source: Foreclosure registration
Each line restates what the page linked beside it said when it was read, on October 7, 2026: the City’s own page, a portal it links to, or its code. Offices change these pages without notice; on a file where one of them matters, ask us and we will check it again.
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How a signing happens in Plantation
In a closing room here in Plantation, at our office, wherever the signer is, or online.
We book a private conference room at 261 N University Drive, Suite 500 for the signing, by appointment, so a Plantation signer does not have to drive to Coral Springs. They can still come to our office, or we send a notary to them. Remote online notarization is the third way, for a signer who is not in Plantation on the day. The closer who prepared the file is reachable during the signing whichever way it happens.
In our office
3301 N University Drive, Suite 100, Coral Springs.
Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Closing room in Plantation
261 N University Drive, Suite 500, Plantation.
By appointment, booked for your signing.
Directions →Wherever the signer is
We send a notary to the signer, including outside office hours.
About mobile notary signings →Remote online
Signed online with a Florida-commissioned online notary.
How remote online notarization works →
Each kind of file has a page of its own: home purchases and sales, refinances and commercial title. Everything we handle is on title, escrow and closing services in Florida.
Title problems we have written about in Broward County
What tends to hold up a Broward closing, and what it takes to clear.