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