New York title company websites

Your customer is the real estate bar

In New York the attorney runs the closing. The consumer does not choose the title company in most transactions — the attorney does, or accepts the one the lender or broker suggests. Every hour spent making your website persuasive to homebuyers is an hour spent on the wrong audience.

What a New York real estate attorney wants from your site is narrow and specific: order a title report without a phone call, see the status of a pending report, get a clean continuation, and reach a human who can clear an exception before a scheduled closing. A site that delivers those four things will out-produce a beautiful brochure site every time.

This is also why the calculator plays a different role here than in a promulgated state. Under a TIRSA-filed schedule the premium is largely predictable, so the calculator's value is speed and the credibility of getting the ancillary charges right, not price discovery.

Transfer taxes are where New York estimates go wrong

New York State imposes a real estate transfer tax of $2 per $500 of consideration. On top of that, New York City levies its own Real Property Transfer Tax, and the state's additional tax on higher-value residential transfers — commonly called the mansion tax — applies above a statutory threshold.

A calculator that applies only the state rate to a New York City transaction will understate the closing badly. Because those layers stack differently inside and outside the city, we configure the calculator to the counties and boroughs you actually close in rather than shipping one statewide default.