Residential and land title, closing coordination, and commercial work — searched carefully, cleared quickly, insured properly. All 100 North Carolina counties and all 46 in South Carolina.
Residential & Land
Best Title Services runs residential and land searches out of Hickory, in the Catawba Valley. Being from here isn’t a slogan — it means we’ve pulled chains of title on these parcels before, and we know which subdivisions, which old family tracts, and which lake lots tend to surprise people.
Our underwriters work in-house. When something turns up on your file at seven in the evening, you’re not waiting on a ticket queue in another time zone. You’re talking to the person who can clear it.
Time-sensitive is the only kind of file we get, so we treat every one that way — a starter home or a hundred-acre tract, same attention either way.
Closing Services
Finding an attorney or notary who can actually close on your timeline is half the battle — especially outside the metros.
We’ve built a bench of closing professionals across both Carolinas, so we can match the deal to someone who’s available and knows the county it sits in.
Commercial
A commercial purchase carries a price tag and a negotiation that a residential deal doesn’t. It carries more title risk too — layered easements, old leases, mechanics’ liens, entity questions about who can actually sign.
We insure to the level the investment warrants, and we tell you plainly what a policy does and doesn’t reach.
Practically all of them. The stakes just climb with commercial deals — the prices are higher and the purchase agreements are more complicated, so a defect costs considerably more to fix after the fact.
It protects the investor when something surfaces on the title after closing. Those problems usually trace back to plain human error — a misfiled document, a clerical mistake, occasionally outright fraud.
Without a policy, the investor absorbs the loss. With one, the underwriter defends the claim.
There are two. The lender’s policy protects the lender’s stake and is required when there’s financing. The owner’s policy protects you. A buyer using a lender is typically responsible for both.
The owner’s policy stays in force as long as you hold an interest in the property — no renewal, no expiration.
Send us the contract. We’ll open the file, order the search, and walk you through whatever comes back — with two decades of Carolina commercial and residential work behind the read.
Send it over and we’ll get the search started today. Residential, land, or commercial — same attention, same turnaround.