Title company website builder: built for you, not by you

What a title company website builder should actually build

A general website builder — Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, WordPress with a theme — gives you a canvas. It does not give you a title insurance premium calculator that knows Florida promulgates its rates and Ohio does not, a seller net sheet that puts the transfer tax on the right side of the statement in Michigan, or an order form that opens a file the way your processor opens one. You build those yourself, badly, or you pay a developer to build them once and watch them go stale the first time a state changes its rate schedule.

A title agency website builder worth the name starts with those pieces already built. Ours does: fourteen calculators on a 50-state rate engine, eleven intake forms that return completed PDFs, a secure document portal, county and city pages for local search, and hosting that meets the security and accessibility standards your underwriter and your lenders expect. The design layer sits on top of that, not the other way around.

So the question is not whether you can build a title website on a DIY platform — you can, and the result usually looks like a real estate agent’s site with the word “title” added. The question is whether the builder you use understands what the site is for: earning the next file from a Realtor or a lender who has forty other agencies to choose from.

Builder speed, custom result

The reason agencies reach for a builder is time. A custom agency quote means a discovery call, a proposal, a six-week timeline and a five-figure invoice. A DIY builder means tonight. We aimed for the second timeline with the first result.

Because the calculators, forms, portal and page structure are already built and configured per state, a new title website with us is a matter of your logo, your colors, your team, your counties and your underwriter’s rate schedule. Most Grow-plan sites are live within a few weeks of the kickoff; the Add-Ons plan, which places the calculators and forms on a site you already have, is faster still. There is no setup fee and no contract, which is the other thing agencies like about builders.

What you do not get is a template with your name on it. Every site is laid out for your agency, written in your voice, and tuned to your state’s closing rules — see the state-by-state pages for what that means in yours. If you want to compare the approaches honestly, title company website templates versus a custom build walks through where a template is fine and where it is not.

What is included, plan by plan

Add-Ons & Widgets, $75 a month. You keep your current website. We build the title insurance, closing cost, net sheet and cash-to-close calculators for your state, brand them to you, and place them on your site along with the order form and intake forms. Everything submitted lands in your inbox as a PDF. Grow, $150 a month. A custom 25-page title company website: homepage, service pages, a page for every county and city you close in, all fourteen calculators, all eleven forms, the secure portal, content migrated from your old site, secure ADA-compliant hosting, and local SEO so the county pages rank. This is the plan most agencies choose. Dominate, $399 a month. Everything in Grow on a 50-page site, plus two blog posts a month, Google review automation, Google and Facebook ads management, a CRM with online payments, and priority support. For agencies that want to own every county in their market rather than compete in one.

Full detail is on the title company website pricing page. Every plan is month to month with a 60-day money-back guarantee.

Why a title insurance website builder has to know the rules

Title insurance is regulated state by state, and a builder that does not know the rules produces a site that is wrong in ways a Realtor notices immediately. Rates are promulgated in Florida, Texas and New Mexico, set by rating bureaus in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, and filed underwriter by underwriter almost everywhere else. Closings run through escrow officers in the West, attorneys across New England and the Southeast, and abstractors in the Plains. Transfer taxes range from nothing in a dozen states to more than four percent in Delaware. Iowa does not allow private title insurance at all.

Our rate engine encodes all of that, and the site we build for you is configured to your state before you see the first draft. That is the difference between a title insurance website builder and a website builder that will let you type the words “title insurance” into a heading.

It is also why we build only for this industry. Every client is a title agency, an escrow company or a real estate closing practice, so every hour we spend improving the platform improves your site. See why agencies choose Title Engine over a general web designer.

How the build works

A twenty-minute kickoff call covers your markets, your underwriter, your team and your current site. We build a first draft on our platform with your branding and your state’s calculators live, and you review it on a private link. Revisions are included; most agencies go through one or two rounds. When you approve, we point your domain, migrate your old URLs so you keep your rankings, and submit the new sitemap to Google.

After launch, changes are part of the plan. A new closer joins, a county gets added, the state changes its rate schedule — you send an email and it is done. You never log into a builder, and you never pay a developer by the hour again.

If you would like to see what a finished build looks like before the call, the title company website portfolio walks through a real site page by page, and title company website design explains the compliance and structure decisions behind every build.