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Title Insurance Basics

Title Insurance Basics

To understand what title insurance is, it helps to understand what title is. Broadly defined, title includes the right to possess, to build, to exclude others, and the right to sell. Title to land can be affected in any number of ways. The County Recorder’s Office is...

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Chain Of Title In Real Estate

Chain Of Title In Real Estate

“Chain of title” is the ownership history of a real property parcel from the first owner to the present owner. The reason chain of title is important is because a current owner only has good, or “marketable,” title if every prior conveyance of the land was done...

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Title Insurance Basics

To understand what title insurance is, it helps to understand what title is. Broadly defined, title includes the right to possess, to build, to exclude others, and the right to sell. Title to land can be affected in any number of ways. The County Recorder’s Office is...

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