Hollywood Title Company

Walk the beachfront promenade in Hollywood and you will see it spelled, on every sign, as the Broadwalk, not the boardwalk. That is not a typo that nobody fixed. The city's founder, Joseph Young, built it of pink concrete rather than wood, so there were no boards to walk on, and the deliberate spelling has survived for the better part of a century. It is a fitting emblem for a place that was planned down to the detail. Young laid out Hollywood in 1925 as a Dream City, a complete community conjured from raw land, and he named it for the glamour of its California namesake. The lesson for anyone buying or selling property here is the same one the Broadwalk teaches: the details are not decoration, and getting them exactly right is the whole point.

Hollywood grew into one of the largest cities in Broward County, sitting midway between Miami and Fort Lauderdale with miles of beach, dozens of parks, and a working waterfront. Port Everglades, one of the busiest cruise and cargo ports in the country, lies largely within its limits, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida is headquartered here, its guitar-shaped hotel tower now a landmark visible for miles. The housing runs a wide range, from beachfront condominiums to historic single-family neighborhoods in the Lakes and Hollywood Hills, and it remains more attainable than the barrier islands to the south.

For a closing, that range sets the work. Beachfront condominiums mean buying into an association, so its finances, assessments, and disclosures all need a careful read. Historic and older homes carry established chains of title to walk through with care, and coastal parcels raise the familiar questions about boundaries and what the survey shows. A thorough title search ties these threads together, confirming the chain of title, surfacing anything out of place, an unreleased mortgage, a lien, an easement, and raising it as an exception in the title commitment to be cleared before closing, with the owner's and lender's policies we issue through Commonwealth Land Title and First American standing behind it. On a waterfront or beachfront parcel a current survey matters too, showing whether the seawall, deck, and walkways sit exactly where the record says and within their setbacks, so an encroachment is caught early rather than after closing. On an older Hollywood home, the search also confirms there are no unpaid municipal charges or open and expired permits from past work, so nothing surfaces as a lien after the closing.

Getting the details exactly right, the spelling and the boundary alike, is what a boutique, counsel-led firm is built for. 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 Hollywood closing is comfortable, familiar work. Counsel-led means an attorney is part of your file when a question about an association or an older chain of title needs a real answer, rather than a referral you have to chase. The association's estoppel certificate also confirms, to the dollar, exactly what is owed at closing before any funds change hands, and on a financed purchase the lender's requirements are folded into the same timeline.

Call our office and you reach the people actually working your file, with the lawyer in the same office instead of a distant call center. Whether you are buying a condominium near the Broadwalk, selling a home in the Hollywood Hills, or lending on either, we will make sure the record is clean before you sign. When a Hollywood closing is taking shape, we would be glad to walk through it with you. Reach us at (305) 444-4508.