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West Palm Beach: same state, different playbook

Cross into Palm Beach County and the closing customs flip: the seller customarily selects the title company and pays for the owner's policy. Agents working across county lines get burned by this constantly — we keep it straight on every file.

The custom flip, explained

In Broward and Miami-Dade, buyers typically choose title and pay the owner's premium. In Palm Beach County, custom runs the other way: seller pays, seller picks. It is custom, not law — the contract always controls — but pricing a listing, writing an offer, or building a net sheet with the wrong county's assumptions produces real-money surprises. Our calculators and net sheets apply the correct county default automatically and let the contract override it.

The WPB market pattern

Downtown and the waterfront run on condo diligence; historic districts like Flamingo Park and Old Northwood carry century-old permit and renovation history worth municipal scrutiny; and the corporate migration reshaping the city brings relocation buyers, entity purchases, and lenders from everywhere — all patterns we close routinely. Statewide mechanics apply: $0.70 per $100 deed stamps (no Miami-Dade surtax up here), recording with the Palm Beach County clerk.

Serving Palm Beach County deliberately

Our office is in Hallandale Beach; our Palm Beach County practice is real and growing, built on remote-first convenience — e-signings, RON, mobile notaries to your kitchen table in Wellington — and the same attorney-supervised escalation that moves stuck files everywhere else. No fake storefront, just the work.

Questions

Frequently asked

As the seller, do I have to use the title company my contract names?

The contract's designation controls once signed — which means the time to choose is before signing. Palm Beach sellers customarily hold that choice; if you want attorney-supervised handling, name it in the contract.

Does the reissue credit matter more in a seller-pays county?

It matters directly to the seller's wallet here: if a qualifying prior policy exists, the reissue rate reduces the premium the seller is customarily paying. We check on every Palm Beach file — bring the prior policy to listing.

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