Government Sector

A thorough understanding of the government sector is vital in providing title services to this aspect of the industry. Surety Title Corporation has the resources and expertise necessary to comply with the standards promulgated by government regulations on local, state, and federal levels.

Surety Title's ability to meet the time constraints mandated by government agencies, provide a comprehensive search, and offer resolutions to difficult title issues that arise in land acquisitions is evidenced by the services provided to the following instrumentalities.

On the local level, Surety has worked with numerous municipalities within the state by performing In Rem foreclosure searches, closing land acquisitions involving county and state funding, resolving access issues, searches involving street vacations and researching lands now or formerly owned by railroads.

On the county level, Surety has handled fee acquisitions, information certificates for road easement purchases, farmland preservation, and Open Space acquisitions in conjunction with municipalities and the state Green Acres program.

On the state level, Surety has worked with the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Transportation, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, and Garden State Parkway Authority providing title services encompanssing large tracts of commercial lands for acquisition.

On the federal level, Surety has researched military lands own by the US Government, has worked with the US Army Corp of Engineers in resolving riparian and tideland issues affecting offshore lands and served as the South Jersey closing agent for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, closing nover 6,000 transactions over a four year contract period.