Our Services

Title Services

Lake Area Title is a Louisiana licensed title insurance agency. Our title insurance agents have overseen the issuance of title insurance policies insuring well over $1 billion in value and involving properties ranging from single-family residences to hotels and restaurants to large timberland tracts stretching across multiple parishes.

Our title services include:

• Conducting title searches
• Ordering and reviewing abstracts of title
• Ordering and reviewing surveys
• Providing attorney’s title opinions
• Issuing title commitments and reports
• Conducting title curative work
• Issuing title insurance policies to lenders and owners

Closing, Settlement and Escrow Services

Lake Area Title offers a full range of services for commercial and residential real estate closings, including:

• Drafting purchase agreements and addendums
• Preparing Closing Disclosures, HUD-1 Settlement Statements, and ALTA Settlement Statements
• Ordering mortgage payoff quotes
• Issuing closing protection letters
• Scheduling and conducting closings
• Providing notarial services at closing
• Escrowing and disbursing closing funds
• Preparing and recording deeds, mortgages and other legal instruments
• Processing mortgage packages and executed documents in accordance with closing instructions