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Heritage Title Co. - Short Sale Facilitation

Welcome! HTC Title Services, Inc., a locally owned and operated company, providing attorneys, realtors, financial institutions and mortgage professionals with title insurance and escrow services in a timely, professional and courteous manner.


Heritage Title Company, formed in 1983, and Short Sale Facilitators, formed in 2008, together make up HTC Title Services. Both divisions provide our clients with expert advice and creative solutions, to ensure their real estate transactions close promptly, efficiently, and accurately.


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City of Chicago Water Certification

Effective January 1, 2012, it will now be necessary to obtain a City of Chicago Water Department certificate of full payment of water and sewer charges prior to recording any deed of conveyance, including conveyances that are exempt from the transfer tax stamps requirement.   In other words, (1) the usual procedure for obtaining a water cert applies when the conveyance is a taxable transfer, and (2) the City is now requiring a certificate of full payment on conveyances otherwise exempt from transfer tax.  The only good news is the City will not charge the $

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