Coral Springs Title Company

When the first McDonald's opened in Coral Springs, it had no golden arches. The city's sign codes would not allow them, and the detail became famous enough to turn up in Trivial Pursuit. That is the perfect introduction to Coral Springs, a city master-planned from former farmland in 1963 and governed, ever since, by some of the strictest aesthetic and sign rules in South Florida. The name, fittingly for a place built on rules rather than nature, comes from the development company; there are no actual springs. For a buyer or seller, the famous arches story is more than trivia, because the rules behind it are recorded restrictions that run with the land, and they are exactly what a careful closing has to account for.

The city was conjured, quite literally, as a promotion. To draw crowds to a 1965 land sale, the developers hired a rising television host named Johnny Carson to emcee, and thousands of people turned out; an early covered bridge still stands as a relic of that salesmanship. What grew from it is one of Broward County's signature family suburbs: low-key, leafy, heavy on parks, and built around a canal system, with strict landscaping, paint, roofing, and signage codes that have helped keep property values comfortably above the county norm.

Those same codes are what make diligence here so important. Buying in Coral Springs almost always means buying into a homeowners' or condominium association, and into a web of covenants and deed restrictions that dictate everything from your roof color to your fence line. Those restrictions are raised as exceptions in the title commitment so you know precisely what you are agreeing to before you sign, not after a code notice arrives. A careful title search ties it together, confirming the chain of title and surfacing anything out of place, an unreleased mortgage, a lien, an easement, a canal or drainage matter, to be cleared before closing and backed by the owner's and lender's policies we issue through Commonwealth Land Title and First American. Before closing we walk through that commitment with you, so every covenant and restriction you are taking title subject to is something you understand in advance rather than discover from a violation notice after the fact.

A market defined by its recorded restrictions is, in a real sense, the most title-driven kind there is, and it is squarely the work a boutique, counsel-led firm handles well. Union Title Services has been closing Florida transactions since 1985, family-owned and led through the affiliated Law Offices of Thomas G. Sherman, P.A. We are based in Coral Gables and we close throughout Florida, so a Coral Springs closing is familiar ground. Counsel-led means an attorney is part of your file when a covenant, an association document, or a restriction needs a clear reading, rather than a referral you have to go find. The association's estoppel certificate confirms, to the dollar, exactly what is owed at closing before any funds change hands. Because so much here turns on lot lines and fences, a current survey confirms the boundaries match the record, and the owner's policy we issue then protects that title for as long as you own the home.

Call our office and you reach the people actually working your file, with the lawyer in the same building rather than a distant call center. Whether you are buying a first family home, selling one you have loved for years, or lending on either, we will make sure you know exactly what runs with the land before you sign. When a Coral Springs closing is on the horizon, we would be glad to walk through it with you. Reach us at (305) 444-4508.