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2. What is a title search on property? - AOL

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   A title search is mandatory for any real estate transaction that requires title insurance. This includes homes purchased with financing, as mortgage lenders require a title search in order to ...

3. Title search - Wikipedia

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   In real estate business and law, a title search or property title search is the process of examining public records and retrieving documents on the history of a piece of real property to determine and confirm property's legal ownership, and find out what claims or liens are on the property. [1]

4. What is a clear title? How to check if a property has one - AOL

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   In real estate, clear title and clean title are used interchangeably to refer to a home title that is free of liens or other issues. Yes, it’s possible to buy a home without clear title, but it ...

5. Recording (real estate) - Wikipedia

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   Each U.S. state has a recording act, a statute which dictates the legal procedure by which an individual claiming an interest in real property (real estate) formally establishes their claim to that property. The recordation of property rights becomes particularly significant where an unscrupulous dealer in land purports to sell the same tract ...

6. Title (property) - Wikipedia

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   A quiet title action is a lawsuit to resolve with any cloud on title, such as competing claims or rights to real property, for example, missing heirs, tenants, reverters, remainders and lien holders all competing to get ownership to the house or land.

7. Cloud on title - Wikipedia

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   Clouds on title are usually discovered during a title search." [1] Clouded title can thus be contrasted with a clear title, which indicates that a property is unencumbered. A cloud on title may reduce the value and marketability of property because any prospective buyer aware of the cloud will know that they are buying the risk the grantor may ...

8. Property abstract - Wikipedia

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   An abstract of title is the condensed history of the title to a particular parcel of real estate, consisting of a summary of the original grant and all subsequent conveyances and encumbrances affecting the property and a certification by the abstractor that the history is complete and accurate.

9. Chain of title - Wikipedia

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   In real estate transactions in the United States, insurance companies' issue title insurance based upon the chain of title to the property when it is transferred. Title insurance companies sometimes maintain private title plants that track real estate titles in addition to the official records. [according to whom?] In other cases, the chain of ...