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Bayit Title

Title, escrow and closing services in Florida

We search title, examine what the search returns, issue commitments and policies as an agent for First American Title Insurance Company, hold the escrow, and run the closing. Every file is worked by the same four people, in Coral Springs — read by a person, raised early, and in writing.

Residential and commercial, throughout FloridaUnderwritten by First American Title Insurance Company

What a title agency does

Four things, one team.

Search & examine
Read by a person, day one
Insure
Commitments and policies on First American Title Insurance Company paper
Hold escrow
Trust account; instructions confirmed by voice
Close
In office, mobile, or remote online

Have a contract?

Open an order

How a file moves

Five steps from contract to policy

  1. Step 1

    The file opens

    Contract in, search ordered the same day, one processor and one closer assigned.

  2. Step 2

    Search read, issues raised

    Anything that could hold up closing goes to you in writing with what it takes to clear.

  3. Step 3

    Commitment issued

    Requirements and exceptions listed; payoffs and estoppels ordered.

  4. Step 4

    Signing

    In our office, wherever the signer is, or by remote online notarization.

  5. Step 5

    Record, disburse, insure

    Documents recorded, funds out on verified instructions, policy issued.

Residential closings

Purchases, sales, refinances, new construction, condominium and HOA files, cash closings, out-of-state and foreign sellers. The search is ordered the day the file opens, read by a person, and anything that could hold up the closing goes to you in writing with what it would take to clear — not saved for the table.

Commercial title

Office, retail, industrial, multifamily and vacant land, for purchases, sales and financings. A commercial file is not a residential file with a larger number on it, and the extra work is the point of hiring someone who does it regularly:

  • Entity work

    Corporate, partnership and LLC searches, good standing, authority documents, and the resolutions the underwriter will want before it insures a signature.

  • The right policy and endorsements

    ALTA owner’s and loan policies, leasehold coverage, and the endorsement set a commercial lender asks for, quoted line by line.

  • Searches against the parties

    UCC, judgment and lien searches against the entities and principals on both sides, plus tax, assessment and permit questions.

  • Escrow on the negotiated terms

    Holdbacks, staged disbursement, multiple lenders, assignment of leases and rents — held to what the parties actually agreed.

Send us the contract and the entity names early. Authority documents and estoppels are the two things that most often decide whether a commercial closing holds its date.

1031 exchanges

A like-kind exchange under section 1031 lets an investor defer gain on the sale of investment or business property by acquiring replacement property through a qualified intermediary. The intermediary has to be in place before the relinquished property closes; once the seller has received or controlled the proceeds, there is no exchange left to structure.

We coordinate the closing with whichever qualified intermediary you choose: the exchange documents are ready before the settlement statement is cut, the proceeds go where they are supposed to go, and the 45-day identification and 180-day acquisition clocks are watched by the people holding the closing file.

Bayit Exchange Company is a separate company under different ownership, with no connection to us. The name is shared and nothing else is, which is worth stating rather than leaving the name to imply otherwise.

Nothing about closing here depends on which intermediary you use. What we ask is only that you tell us early. We are not tax advisers — the decision to exchange, and whether the property qualifies, belongs with your CPA or tax counsel.

Escrow and settlement

Deposits, payoffs and proceeds are held in our trust account and disbursed on written instructions confirmed by voice.

Wire safety

We will never send you wire instructions by email and we will never email a change to instructions already given. If you receive something that appears to come from us with account details in it, call 754.253.2270 before acting on it.

How a signing can happen

Office hours Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

  • In-office signing

    3301 N University Drive, Suite 100, Coral Springs.

  • Mobile signing

    We send a notary to the signer. Arranged file by file, including outside office hours.

  • Remote online notarization

    Signed online with a Florida-commissioned online notary. How it works →

Working out the cost

Three ways. The premium is promulgated — set by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation — so there is nothing to trade for it.