New York title.
Clear answers.
Confident closings.
Title insurance, abstract and search, municipal verification, escrow and settlement for real estate attorneys, lenders, Realtors, title sales agents, buyers and sellers — across all eight counties we cover, with the examiner on your file reachable by phone.
Built for everyone at the closing table
Attorneys, lenders and Realtors need speed, precision and tools. Buyers and sellers need the process explained. Both are here.
Attorneys
Fast clearance, direct examiner access, CEMA support and a New York forms vault you will actually use.
EnterRealtors
Pre-listing title review, transaction visibility, and early warning on the problems that kill closings.
EnterLenders
Fee estimates, commitments on schedule, CEMA savings and clean post-closing delivery.
EnterTitle Sales Agents
White-label abstracting, search production and back-office support across our full county footprint.
EnterBuyers & Sellers
Plain-English answers about title insurance, closing costs, wire fraud and what happens on closing day.
EnterWhat we do
Title and settlement is the center of the business. Everything else exists because a transaction rarely stops at the policy.
Title & Settlement
End-to-end title insurance, search, clearance, closing and recording for every transaction type we handle.
Learn moreLender & Servicer Solutions
Fee estimates, title production, CEMA support, closing coordination and post-closing delivery.
Learn moreReal Estate Data Solutions
Property, tax, municipal, boundary and chain-of-title data products for portfolio and analytic use.
Learn moreTrust & Estate Transaction Support
Title clearance and transfer support for trust-owned property, fiduciary deeds and estate distributions.
Learn moreHome Warranty Solutions
Warranty program information, eligibility, plan selection and claim routing for residential closings.
Learn moreCommercial Title Services
High-value and structurally complex property, entity transactions, multi-tract assemblages and custom endorsement packages.
Learn moreThe difference is in the exceptions
Any title company can send you a list of what is wrong with a property. The work that matters is figuring out how to clear it — and doing that early enough to matter.
Local knowledge that is actually local
Suffolk uses district/section/block/lot. Richmond County is not on ACRIS. Westchester records through PREP. We work these differences every day rather than discovering them on your file.
Proactive clearance, not a list
Exceptions come back analyzed with a path to clear them. Where documents are needed, we start chasing them at order — not at commitment.
A person who answers
Direct access to the senior examiner on your file. No queue, no ticket number, no waiting for a return call that determines whether you close this week.
Secure by construction
Encrypted document exchange, role-based access, full audit trail, and callback verification on every outgoing wire. Sensitive documents never travel as email attachments.
CEMA and recording fluency
Consolidation structuring that produces documentable mortgage recording tax savings, and recording across all four New York systems we cover.
Responsive closing coordination
Figures when you need them, payoffs ordered early, and a closing calendar that reflects the recording system your county actually uses.
Run the numbers before you commit
Every calculator on this site works in the browser. Nothing you type is transmitted unless you choose to send it to us.
Mortgage Calculator
Principal, interest, taxes, insurance, PMI and a full amortization schedule.
OpenHome Value Estimate
The PriceHQ valuation model — an estimated value range for a New York property.
OpenRecording Fee Calculator
County-by-county recording fees for deeds and mortgages, with page counts.
OpenTransfer Tax Estimator
State, NYC, mansion tax and Peconic Bay CPF where applicable.
OpenMortgage Recording Tax & CEMA
What the tax costs — and what a consolidation would save.
OpenNY Attorney Forms Vault
Deeds, transfer tax returns, affidavits and security instruments, searchable.
OpenSecure Document Upload
Encrypted transfer straight into the transaction file.
OpenWire Fraud Center
The verification procedure that stops a fraudulent wire.
OpenEight counties, one desk
Long Island, all five boroughs of New York City, and Westchester. Each county has its own recording system, its own municipal search practice and its own local terminology — and its own page here.
Schematic coverage map — select a region for county-specific recording and search detail.
From order to policy
Five stages. You can see where your file is at any point in the portal.
Order
Intake through the guided order form or a call. The file opens and a contact is assigned.
Search & Examine
Chain of title, tax, judgment, lien and municipal searches run and are examined by a senior examiner.
Clear
Exceptions analyzed, documents chased, payoffs ordered and objections resolved before closing.
Close & Record
Settlement, disbursement with wire verification, then recording in the county's own system.
Policy
Recorded instruments, final search items and the title policy delivered as one package.
You should not have to decode an industry to buy a house
What title insurance actually covers, what a title search finds, how to estimate your closing costs, and the one phone call that prevents wire fraud — all in plain English, with no jargon and nothing to sign.
Latest from Viking Abstract — “The Blog Room”
Practice guidance for professionals and plain-English education for consumers.
Buyer & Seller Guides
What Title Insurance Actually Covers — and What It Does Not
Most insurance protects you against something that might happen later. Title insurance protects you against something that already happened — you just…
Lender Resources
CEMA: When a Consolidation Actually Saves Your Borrower Money
A CEMA can eliminate mortgage recording tax on the outstanding principal balance — but only when the arithmetic and the assignment both…
Realtor Resources
The Pre-Listing Title Review: Finding the Deal-Killer Before You Have a Buyer
The problems that collapse a closing are almost always visible weeks earlier. Here is what a pre-listing review looks for.