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Built for Vermont closings
Looking for a website for your Vermont title company, escrow company or real estate closing practice? Below is what goes into a Vermont title website from us — the state-specific calculators, the intake forms, the local pages — and what it costs each month. Title companies are the only clients we build for, so the Vermont rules below are where every design begins.
Vermont closings are conducted by attorneys, who typically act as title insurance agents, and title insurance rates are filed with the Department of Financial Regulation by each underwriter. The buyer pays Vermont’s Property Transfer Tax, which is tiered: a reduced rate on the first portion of a principal residence, the general rate above it, and, since the 2024 housing legislation, a substantially higher rate on second homes and other non-primary residential property.
Deeds are recorded with town clerks, not counties; Vermont has fourteen counties on the map and none at the recording desk. The buyer customarily pays for the owner’s policy. Chittenden County around Burlington is the volume market; the ski towns and lakes are a second-home market whose parties are elsewhere at signing. A Vermont site is built for both.
- Filed premium rates configured to your underwriter
- Property Transfer Tax computed by tier, with the principal-residence and second-home rates
- Recording fees by town clerk
- Order intake built for an attorney-run closing practice
- Local SEO by town, from Burlington to Stowe to Woodstock to Manchester
- Buyer cash-to-close that reflects what Vermont buyers actually pay
Calculators built for Vermont, fitted to your site
No two states price a closing the same way, so we never ship a generic calculator. For Vermont that means tools built on filed premium schedules, the Property Transfer Tax with its reduced principal-residence rate and the higher rate on second homes adopted in 2024, and recording fees set by each of Vermont's town clerks, each designed in your colors and set into your site so an agent or lender sees your agency, not a third-party tool.
You choose which calculators go on the site. The six below are the ones Vermont closers use most; all fourteen are available on any plan.
Title Insurance Calculator
Owner's & lender's premiums at Vermont's filed rates.
Open calculator →Closing Cost Calculator
Full buyer/seller breakdown — title, taxes, recording, and settlement fees.
Open calculator →Transfer Tax Calculator
State & county transfer taxes and stamps, by location.
Open calculator →Seller Net Sheet
What the seller walks away with after commission, payoff & closing costs.
Open calculator →Buyer Cash-to-Close
Everything a buyer needs at the table — down payment, prepaids, and closing costs.
Open calculator →Contract Deadline Calculator
Every deadline in the Vermont purchase contract — inspection, financing, title, closing — as calendar dates from the effective date.
Open calculator →Vermont-specific from day one
Property Transfer Tax tiers
Vermont taxes a principal residence at a reduced rate on the first portion and second homes at a higher rate since 2024. The calculator asks which and applies it.
Attorneys conduct closings
Vermont closings are conducted by attorneys who act as title agents. The site is built for a closing practice.
Town clerks, not counties
Vermont records by town. Location pages and fee tables follow the town, which is how Vermonters search.
Forms that do the back-and-forth for you
Every Vermont build includes online intake: the order form, the contract upload and the buyer and seller sheets are on your site, branded to you, and each one lands in your inbox as a completed PDF ready for the file. No retyping and no chasing signatures by email. These are the six Vermont agencies rely on most, out of eleven in total.
Submit a Contract
Clients upload a signed purchase contract and any addenda — you open the file and start title work right away.
Open form →Buyer Information Sheet
Buyers complete intake online and you receive it as a PDF — or they download it to fill out by hand.
Open form →Seller Information Sheet
Sellers complete intake online and you receive a PDF — or download it to complete on paper.
Open form →Payoff Authorization
Sellers and refinancers e-sign to authorize a payoff request — so net sheets are accurate and prior liens clear at closing.
Open form →Open a Title Order
Agents and lenders open a new file in one step — property, parties, lender, and closing date. No back-and-forth emails.
Open form →Secure Document Upload
Clients upload IDs, payoffs, and sensitive documents through an encrypted portal.
Open form →Principal residence or second home changes the tax by thousands
Vermont’s Property Transfer Tax has always distinguished a principal residence, taxed at a reduced rate on the first portion of the price, from everything else. The 2024 housing legislation widened the gap by adding a much higher rate on second homes and other non-primary residential property. On a Stowe or Killington sale the difference between the two answers is a five-figure number on the buyer’s side.
A buyer cash-to-close that asks whether the property will be the buyer’s principal residence and applies the correct tier is the tool that makes a listing agent in a ski town look prepared, and it is the tool that gets the buyer to call your office rather than the one their agent usually uses.
We build it with the current tiers and update them when Montpelier changes them again.
Burlington is a Vermont market; Stowe is a Boston and New York market
Chittenden County — Burlington, South Burlington, Essex, Williston, Colchester — is the state’s volume market, where relationships with Realtors and lenders decide who closes and the site’s job is to be the easiest closing practice to send a file to. The order form and the net sheet lead.
The ski towns and lakes — Stowe, Killington, Sugarbush, Okemo, Manchester, the Champlain islands, the Northeast Kingdom — are a second-home market whose buyers are in Boston, Connecticut and New York and whose sellers may be anywhere. The pages there are written for remote parties: how a Vermont closing works, the second-home transfer tax rate, mail-away signings, secure document exchange. The Upper Valley around Woodstock and Norwich looks across the river to Hanover and Lebanon.
Vermont records by town, so the pages are written by town. Same calculators, same intake, one funnel, a front door in each.
One flat monthly fee, no contracts
Add-Ons & Widgets
- Title & closing-cost calculators at Vermont rates
- Seller net sheet calculator
- Online forms & “Order Title” intake
- Branded to your company
Grow
- Custom 25-page website, content migrated
- All 14 calculators, forms & order intake
- Location pages for your towns
- Secure ADA-compliant hosting & local SEO
Dominate
- Everything in Grow, on a 50-page site
- 2 monthly blog posts & Google review automation
- Google & Facebook ads management
- CRM, online payments & priority support
Month to month, cancel anytime, backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee. Compare the three plans in detail →
Vermont title website questions
How does the Vermont Property Transfer Tax work?
The buyer pays it. A principal residence is taxed at a reduced rate on the first portion of the price and the general rate above; second homes and other non-primary residential property are taxed at a substantially higher rate under the 2024 housing legislation. Our calculator asks which and applies the correct tier.
Who conducts closings in Vermont?
Attorneys, who typically also act as title insurance agents. We build the site for a closing practice, with order intake and calculators aimed at Realtors and lenders.
Where are deeds recorded in Vermont?
With the town clerk of the town where the property sits. Vermont has no county recording, so our location pages and fee tables are organized by town.
How are Vermont title rates regulated?
Each underwriter files its rates with the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation. Premiums differ between underwriters, so the calculators are configured to yours.
Who pays for the owner's policy in Vermont?
The buyer customarily pays for the owner’s and lender’s policies, along with the Property Transfer Tax. The calculators default to those customs.
Can you build pages for individual Vermont towns and ski areas?
Yes. Burlington and the Chittenden County towns, Stowe, Killington, Manchester, Woodstock, St. Albans, Rutland and any other town you close in each get a page written for it.
What are your prices for Vermont title companies?
$75 a month for calculators and forms added to your current site, $150 a month for a full custom 25-page Vermont title website with hosting and local SEO, or $399 a month for the 50-page plan with monthly content and ads. All plans are month to month with no setup fee.
Do you redesign existing title company sites in Vermont?
We do. A redesign keeps what works — your content, your URLs and the rankings attached to them — and replaces the rest with a site built for Vermont closings: state-configured calculators, online intake, county pages and secure hosting. Agencies that prefer to keep their current site can add the calculators and forms alone on the Add-Ons plan.
Property Transfer Tax under 32 V.S.A. Chapter 231 (§ 9602), as amended by Act 181 of 2024. Verify current rates, town fees and filed premiums before relying on any figure.
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