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Built for Washington closings
This page is for Washington title agencies, escrow offices and closing attorneys who need a new website or a rebuild of the one they have. It explains how we design a Washington title company website, which calculators and online forms are included, and what the monthly cost is. We build websites for the title industry and nothing else, and every Washington project starts with the state rules below.
Washington is an escrow state with filed title insurance rates: each underwriter files its schedule with the Office of the Insurance Commissioner, escrow officers at title and escrow companies conduct the closing, and limited practice officers licensed under the Supreme Court’s rules prepare the closing documents. The seller customarily pays for the owner’s policy.
The seller also pays the real estate excise tax, and it is graduated: a lower rate on the first tier of the price, stepping up through three more tiers to three percent on the portion of a sale above the top threshold, with the thresholds adjusted periodically. Every county and most cities add a local REET on top. On a King County sale the excise tax is the largest single closing cost, and a calculator that applies a flat rate is wrong by thousands in either direction.
- Filed premium rates configured to your underwriter
- State REET computed tier by tier, with the local REET by county and city
- County auditor recording fees
- Escrow order intake and secure document exchange
- Local SEO for Seattle and the Eastside, Tacoma, Everett, Spokane, Vancouver and Olympia
- Seller net sheets that show the excise tax the way the affidavit will
Calculators built for Washington, fitted to your site
Custom calculators are the core of what we do. Each one we build for a Washington agency runs on Washington’s actual rules — filed premium schedules, the state real estate excise tax that steps up through four price tiers, the local REET each county and city adds, county auditor recording fees, and the escrow customs of a state where limited practice officers prepare the documents — and is styled to your brand and placed in your own page layout, rather than embedded as a generic widget with your logo pasted on top.
Choose the tools that match your Washington workflow. These six are the ones Washington agencies ask for first; fourteen are available.
Title Insurance Calculator
Owner's & lender's premiums at Washington'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 Washington purchase contract — inspection, financing, title, closing — as calendar dates from the effective date.
Open calculator →Washington-specific from day one
Graduated REET
Washington’s excise tax steps from about one percent to three percent through four price tiers, plus a local rate. The calculator applies each tier to its slice.
Escrow and LPOs
Escrow officers close, and limited practice officers prepare the documents under Supreme Court rules. The site is built for that workflow.
Puget Sound to Spokane
King, Pierce and Snohomish are one market; Spokane, Clark and the rest are others. Each gets its own page.
Forms that do the back-and-forth for you
Intake forms live on your Washington site, so an agent opens the order, a lender requests what they need and the buyer and seller complete their sheets online instead of by email. Each submission arrives as a finished PDF that goes straight into the file in your title software. Every form carries your branding and works on a phone. The six below are the most used by Washington agencies; eleven are available.
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 →Four tiers, one sale, and a listing agent who checks
Washington’s excise tax is not a rate; it is a schedule. The first tier of the sale price is taxed at the lowest rate, the next tier at a higher one, the next higher still, and everything above the top threshold at three percent, and the state adjusts the thresholds on a schedule. Then the county and, in most places, the city add their own local REET to the whole price. A Bellevue sale and a Spokane sale at the same price pay different totals, and two Bellevue sales at different prices pay different effective rates.
A seller net sheet that applies one percent, or one-and-a-quarter, or whatever a national template hard-coded, is wrong on every sale above the first tier, which in King County is most of them. Ours computes each tier on its slice of the price, adds the local REET for the jurisdiction, and shows the arithmetic the way the excise tax affidavit will.
That is the number a Seattle listing agent checks first, and it is the number that decides whether they send the next file.
Puget Sound, Spokane, Vancouver and the peninsula
King, Pierce and Snohomish counties are the Puget Sound market: high volume, high prices, hundreds of escrow officers competing on Realtor relationships, and a site whose job is to be the fastest agency to open a file with. Spokane is a different market with its own agents and a large share of buyers from the west side and from Idaho. Clark County around Vancouver is a Portland-metro market whose agents work across the river into Oregon, where there is no excise tax at all. Thurston around Olympia and Kitsap across the water are steadier and more local.
Each gets a page written for it, with the excise tax configured to its county and city, the auditor’s fees tabled, and the same escrow intake on every page. For Clark County agencies we add an Oregon-configured calculator so the same net sheet works in Vancouver and Portland.
One Washington site, a front door in every county, the excise tax right on every estimate.
One flat monthly fee, no contracts
Add-Ons & Widgets
- Title & closing-cost calculators at Washington 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 counties
- 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
No setup fee, no long-term contract, 60-day money-back guarantee. Full plan comparison →
Washington title website questions
How does Washington's real estate excise tax work?
The state tax is graduated: the sale price is divided into four tiers, each taxed at a higher rate up to three percent on the top portion, with thresholds the state adjusts periodically. Counties and most cities add a local REET. The seller pays. Our calculator computes each tier and the local rate for the jurisdiction.
Who conducts closings in Washington?
Escrow officers at title and escrow companies, with limited practice officers preparing the documents under Supreme Court rules. We build the site around that escrow workflow.
How are Washington title rates regulated?
Each underwriter files its rates with the Office of the Insurance Commissioner. Premiums differ between underwriters, so the calculators are configured to yours.
Who pays for the owner's policy in Washington?
The seller customarily pays for the owner’s policy and the excise tax; the buyer pays for the lender’s policy. The calculators default to those customs.
Can a Vancouver agency's site price Portland closings?
Yes. For Clark County agencies we add an Oregon-configured calculator alongside the Washington one, so the same site prices closings on either side of the Columbia.
Which Washington markets can you target?
Seattle, the Eastside, Tacoma, Everett, Spokane, Vancouver, Olympia, Kitsap, Bellingham and any other county you serve, each with its own page.
What does a Washington title agency website cost per month?
Three plans: $75 a month puts the Washington calculators and forms on your existing website; $150 a month is a custom 25-page site with all fourteen calculators, forms, hosting and local SEO; $399 a month is a 50-page site with monthly blog content and ads management. There is no setup fee and you can cancel any month.
We already have a Washington title company website. Can you redesign it?
Yes, and that is the most common project. We move your existing content over, preserve your page addresses so your Google rankings carry across, add the Washington calculators and intake forms, and host the new site on secure, ADA-compliant hosting. If you want to keep the site you have, the $75 plan adds the tools to it as-is.
Real estate excise tax under RCW 82.45 with graduated rates under RCW 82.45.060 and local REET under RCW 82.46. Verify current tiers, local rates, auditor fees and filed premiums before relying on any figure.
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