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Ohio conveyance fees
The state mill plus your county permissive rate, which varies across all 88 counties.
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Built for Ohio closings
Ohio title insurance rates are filed with the Ohio Department of Insurance, so premiums vary between underwriters and your quote is genuinely your own. Ohio also lets title agencies conduct closings directly, which means your website is the front door to the whole transaction.
The Ohio-specific trap is the conveyance fee. It is not one statewide number — it is a mandatory state rate plus a county permissive rate that differs across Ohio's 88 counties, and getting it wrong makes every estimate on your site wrong.
- Filed premium rates configured to your underwriter
- State conveyance fee of $1 per $1,000 in all 88 counties
- County permissive fee of up to $3 per $1,000, set per county
- Seller net sheets accurate to Ohio closings
- Local SEO for your Ohio county and city
- Online order intake for Ohio Realtors and lenders
The conveyance fee is county-specific, and that is the whole problem
Ohio levies a mandatory statewide real property conveyance fee of one mill — $1 per $1,000 of the value transferred — and it applies in all 88 counties. That part never changes.
What changes is the permissive fee. Ohio counties may levy an additional permissive conveyance fee of up to three mills, or $3 per $1,000, and each county sets its own. Most Ohio counties levy the full permissive amount, which brings the common total to $4 per $1,000 — but that is a convention, not a rule, and a calculator that hardcodes $4 will be wrong in every county that levies less.
This is the single clearest reason an Ohio title agency should not use a national calculator. A tool that applies one statewide conveyance rate produces a wrong closing estimate the moment a file crosses a county line, and in a state with 88 counties that happens constantly.
Ohio agencies conduct their own closings, so the site carries more weight
Ohio does not require an attorney to conduct a residential closing, which means your agency is typically running the transaction end to end. Your website is therefore not a marketing brochure attached to someone else's process — it is the intake point for the whole file.
Practically, that argues for putting the order form, the fee quote and the secure document exchange on the front page rather than behind a Services menu. The Realtor sending you a file should be able to do it in under a minute without calling your office.
Common questions
Are the calculators accurate for Ohio?
Yes — we configure the state conveyance fee of $1 per $1,000 plus the specific permissive fee levied by each county you close in, rather than applying one statewide default.
What is the Ohio conveyance fee?
A mandatory state fee of $1 per $1,000 of value applies in all 88 counties. Counties may add a permissive fee of up to $3 per $1,000, so many Ohio transfers total $4 per $1,000 — but the permissive portion is set county by county.
Are Ohio title rates the same at every agency?
No. Ohio is a filed-rate state, so premiums are filed with the Ohio Department of Insurance and differ between underwriters.
Does Ohio require an attorney at closing?
Ohio does not require an attorney to conduct a residential closing, so title agencies commonly run the file end to end. We build the site as the intake point for that whole process.
Can you target my specific Ohio county?
Yes — we build county and city pages for the markets you close in, from Franklin and Cuyahoga to smaller rural counties.
Conveyance fee figures per the Ohio Department of Taxation real property conveyance fee summary. County permissive rates are set locally and change — verify your county before relying on any figure.
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