{"id":21725,"date":"2025-03-24T17:56:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.florida-scout.com\/nicht-kategorisiert\/title-company\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T15:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:14:07","slug":"title-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.florida-scout.com\/en\/house-construction-report\/title-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Title company in the USA is the same as a notary&#8217;s office in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uag-hide-mob uagb-block-c9b0e361 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-cool-to-warm-spectrum-gradient-background has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-8bb65a333ab6006d697a4d2cf69f7f6e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:48px;letter-spacing:10px;text-transform:none\"><strong>CONSTRUCTION REPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<nav aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"rank-math-breadcrumb\"><p><span class=\"last\">Home<\/span><\/p><\/nav>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uag-hide-desktop uag-hide-tab uagb-block-5c09895b alignfull uagb-is-root-container\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-cool-to-warm-spectrum-gradient-background has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1b93d833d424cada582ad8269f5a8a69 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);font-size:18px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:none\"><strong>CONSTRUCTION REPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-924cd09b alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"uagb-position__sticky wp-block-uagb-container uag-hide-mob uagb-block-9ef8e0ed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-info-box uagb-block-f61698d1 uagb-infobox__content-wrap  uagb-infobox-icon-above-title uagb-infobox-image-valign-top\"><div class=\"uagb-ifb-content\"><div class=\"uagb-ifb-image-content\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.florida-scout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Auswandern-L1A-E2-Visum.jpg\" alt=\"Hauskauf in Florida\" width=\"100\" height=\"127\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div><div class=\"uagb-ifb-title-wrap\"><h3 class=\"uagb-ifb-title\">Buying a house: 21 questions and answers<\/h3><\/div><p class=\"uagb-ifb-desc\">Be honest: haven&#8217;t you ever thought about buying a property in Florida and fulfilling your dream of owning your own vacation home?<\/p><div class=\"uagb-ifb-button-wrapper wp-block-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.florida-scout.com\/en\/real-estate-us\/buy-sell-home\/\" target=\"_self\" onclick=\"return true;\" class=\"uagb-infobox-cta-link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"uagb-inline-editing\">KNOW WHAT TO ASK<\/span><svg xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\"><path d=\"M504.3 273.6l-112.1 104c-6.992 6.484-17.18 8.218-25.94 4.406c-8.758-3.812-14.42-12.45-14.42-21.1L351.9 288H32C14.33 288 .0002 273.7 .0002 255.1S14.33 224 32 224h319.9l0-72c0-9.547 5.66-18.19 14.42-22c8.754-3.809 18.95-2.075 25.94 4.41l112.1 104C514.6 247.9 514.6 264.1 504.3 273.6z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-941507ad\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Title company in the USA is the same as a notary&#8217;s office in Germany<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.florida-scout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Baubericht-Titel-Company.jpg\" alt=\"US Title Company\" class=\"wp-image-6706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.florida-scout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Baubericht-Titel-Company.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.florida-scout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Baubericht-Titel-Company-336x200.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.florida-scout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Baubericht-Titel-Company-768x458.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The title company carries out the purchase in trust.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"line-height:1.6\">So we have found our <strong>dream of a country<\/strong>. What happens next? The <strong>contract<\/strong> goes to the title company. It carries out the <strong>purchase <\/strong>in trust. It carries out the title search, arranges for the money to be transferred, divides the costs and prepares all the documents.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We then <strong>went to<\/strong> a few <strong>builders<\/strong> and asked them about it, but they didn&#8217;t see the need for these measures. So we didn&#8217;t do it. There were also no owls, mangroves or rocks on the property. And we didn&#8217;t actually know what we wanted to build and how.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, we had received a <strong>closing date<\/strong> from the title company. This is the day the contract is signed. This is where the buyer and seller or a representative or a supporting person such as a broker or lawyer meet to sign the contract. The title company then arranges for all entries to be made in the land registry.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nice and different thing about this procedure is that the seller pays all the <strong>closing fees<\/strong>. We only had to pay a comparatively low three-digit fee compared to the horrendous four-digit notary fees in Germany for the expenses.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also be sure that there are <strong>no<\/strong> more <strong>contaminated<\/strong> sites on the property. Because this was researched very carefully. After signing, we naturally celebrated a little while our documents were on their way to the authorities. 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