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Built for West Virginia closings
Looking for a website for your West Virginia title company, escrow company or real estate closing practice? Below is what goes into a West Virginia 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 West Virginia rules below are where every design begins.
West Virginia closings are conducted by attorneys, who typically act as title insurance agents, and title insurance rates are filed with the Offices of the Insurance Commissioner by each underwriter. The seller pays two excise taxes when the deed is recorded with the county clerk: a state excise tax on the consideration and a county excise tax at a base rate that counties may increase to fund farmland preservation. The buyer customarily pays for the owner’s policy.
West Virginia title has a dimension most states lack: across much of the state the mineral and coal estates were severed from the surface generations ago, and a buyer, a lender and an examiner all need to know what is being conveyed. The Eastern Panhandle is a Washington commuter market where none of that applies and relocation buyers from Maryland and Virginia search before they have an attorney. A West Virginia site is built for both.
- Filed premium rates configured to your underwriter
- State and county excise tax computed on the consideration, charged to the seller
- County clerk recording fees, with county excise rates that differ
- Order intake built for an attorney-run closing practice that asks about minerals and coal
- Local SEO for Charleston, the Eastern Panhandle, Morgantown, Huntington, Parkersburg and Beckley
- Seller net sheets accurate to West Virginia customs
Calculators built for West Virginia, fitted to your site
No two states price a closing the same way, so we never ship a generic calculator. For West Virginia that means tools built on filed premium schedules, the state excise tax and the county excise tax the seller pays at recording, county clerk fees, and the severed-mineral and coal questions that West Virginia title raises on every rural order, 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 West Virginia closers use most; all fourteen are available on any plan.
Title Insurance Calculator
Owner's & lender's premiums at West Virginia'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 West Virginia purchase contract — inspection, financing, title, closing — as calendar dates from the effective date.
Open calculator →West Virginia-specific from day one
Attorneys conduct closings
West Virginia closings are conducted by attorneys who act as title agents. The site is built for a closing practice.
State plus county excise tax
The seller pays a state excise tax on the deed and a county excise tax that counties may set higher. The net sheet carries both.
Minerals and coal
Severed mineral and coal estates are the rule across much of the state. Intake asks about them up front.
Forms that do the back-and-forth for you
Every West Virginia 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 West Virginia 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 →The attorney prepares the deed, examines the title and closes; the site should sell all three
In West Virginia the closing attorney does more of the work than in most attorney states: preparing the deed and the deed of trust, examining the title back to a root, issuing the policy and conducting the closing, often for a lender in Pittsburgh or Charlotte who has never set foot in the county. Refinance and loan-modification work is a large share of the volume, and lenders assign it to whichever attorney turns it fastest.
So the site’s first job is lender intake: a commitment ordered in a minute, a CPL requested from a phone, a payoff uploaded securely, a closing scheduled online. Its second job is the Realtor tools — a seller net sheet with both excise taxes at the county’s rate, a buyer cash-to-close with the owner’s premium on the buyer’s side — that get the firm named on the listing.
Its third job is to explain, in a paragraph a buyer from Maryland will read, why the deed comes from the attorney and what the examination found. That is what turns a one-time closing into a referral.
The Panhandle is a D.C. market; the rest of the state is about what is underground
Berkeley and Jefferson counties — Martinsburg, Charles Town, Shepherdstown — are the Eastern Panhandle, a commuter market for Washington and Baltimore whose buyers come from Maryland and Northern Virginia, research online, and have never heard that West Virginia closes through attorneys or that the seller pays two excise taxes. A page written for that buyer, with the calculators on it, is what they and the agents bringing them find.
Kanawha around Charleston, Cabell around Huntington, Monongalia around Morgantown and Wood around Parkersburg are in-state markets where the relationship with Realtors and lenders decides who closes and the order form leads. Across those counties and the coalfields to the south, the mineral and coal estates are frequently severed, and our order form asks: surface only, minerals included, coal reserved, existing lease, so the file opens with what the examiner needs and the buyer knows what they are buying.
Each county gets a page written for it, with the same calculators and the same intake throughout.
One flat monthly fee, no contracts
Add-Ons & Widgets
- Title & closing-cost calculators at West Virginia 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
Month to month, cancel anytime, backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee. Compare the three plans in detail →
West Virginia title website questions
Who conducts closings in West Virginia?
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.
What transfer taxes does West Virginia charge?
The seller pays a state excise tax on the consideration and a county excise tax, which counties may set above the base rate. Both are collected by the county clerk at recording, and our seller net sheet includes both at the correct county rate.
Does the order form ask about mineral and coal rights?
Yes. West Virginia intake asks whether the conveyance is surface only, whether minerals or coal are included or reserved, and whether a lease exists, so the file opens with what the examiner needs.
How are West Virginia title rates regulated?
Each underwriter files its rates with the West Virginia Offices of the Insurance Commissioner. Premiums differ between underwriters, so the calculators are configured to yours.
Who pays for the owner's policy in West Virginia?
The buyer customarily pays for the owner’s and lender’s policies. The calculators default to that and can be changed per deal.
Which West Virginia markets can you target?
Charleston, Martinsburg and the Eastern Panhandle, Morgantown, Huntington, Parkersburg, Beckley, Wheeling and any other county you serve, each with its own page.
What are your prices for West Virginia title companies?
$75 a month for calculators and forms added to your current site, $150 a month for a full custom 25-page West Virginia 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 West Virginia?
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 West Virginia 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.
State excise tax under W. Va. Code § 11-22-2; county excise tax under § 11-22-2 and farmland preservation additions under § 8A-12-1 et seq. Verify current county rates, clerk fees and filed premiums before relying on any figure.
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