Navigating the complexities of buying, selling, or investing in real estate requires careful attention to detail and knowledgeable guidance. The De Bruin Law Firm provides comprehensive transactional real estate closing services throughout South Carolina.
We understand that real estate matters involve significant investments of both time and money. Whether you are a first-time homebuyer, a seasoned investor, a seller moving on to your next chapter, or a real estate professional facilitating a deal, your investment deserves a dedicated legal team committed to ensuring a smooth, efficient, and effective closing process.
The journey of buying or selling a home is often exciting, but the details of the transaction can feel overwhelming. Our role is to make the closing process as clear and stress-free as possible.
We strive to manage the complexities so you can focus on the transition ahead.
In South Carolina, an attorney oversees the real estate closing. The path to closing involves several key steps, typically managed by the closing attorney designated in the purchase agreement. We hope you’ll inform your real estate agent that you wish to use The De Bruin Law Firm for your closing needs when drafting your offer.
As the closing agent, our responsibilities include:
Our meticulous approach ensures all legal and financial requirements are satisfied for a successful transfer of property.
Commercial real estate transactions involve properties intended for business or income-generating purposes, such as office buildings, retail spaces, industrial sites, or multi-family complexes. These deals are inherently more complex than residential closings, involving higher stakes, more intricate documentation, and a broader scope of due diligence. The De Bruin Law Firm represents businesses, developers, lenders, and individuals in these sophisticated transactions across South Carolina.
Combining our real estate knowledge with our business law background allows us to effectively handle these multifaceted closings for corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and individual investors, ensuring the transaction aligns with your strategic objectives while mitigating potential risks.
Title insurance is crucial for protecting property owners and lenders against potential claims or defects related to the property’s title that may not be apparent from public records. Hidden issues like undisclosed liens, errors in public records, forgery, or claims from previously unknown heirs could jeopardize ownership rights. We facilitate the issuance of two types of title insurance:
Securing title insurance at closing provides essential peace of mind and financial protection against unforeseen title problems.
Purchasing real estate for investment purposes involves unique considerations. We assist real estate investors in navigating transactions, from analyzing title and zoning issues to structuring the purchase and handling the closing. Whether you’re flipping a single home or acquiring commercial properties, our experience with various transaction types and knowledge of the local market helps you achieve your investment goals while mitigating risks.
We value our relationships with real estate agents and mortgage brokers. We understand that a smooth closing is the final, critical step in serving your clients effectively. Real estate transactions are major life events, and we share your commitment to providing expert guidance and a positive experience. Our team works diligently to ensure timely communication, efficient processing, and a seamless closing, reflecting positively on the professionals who entrust their clients to us.
Contact The De Bruin Law Firm for dedicated and experienced legal support for your next South Carolina real estate transaction.
The road to closing is short, with only a few stops. Generally, all steps are handled by the title and closing agency laid out in your contract. We at the De Bruin Law Firm hope that upon writing an offer, you let your real estate agent know you want us to be used as title and closing firm.
At closing, you will be there with (in some cases) a representative from your lender, your real estate agent, and an attorney who is acting as the closing agent.
As the closing agent, our job is to ensure all the necessary documents are signed and verified and that all funds are properly disbursed.
The De Bruin Law Firm represents banks, mortgage companies, and individuals in real estate closings for single family homes, as well as multi-site properties, including hotels, motels, factories, and other commercial properties.
If you own a business and are buying or selling real estate, our real estate closing services can help. Our business law knowledge combined with our real estate services allow corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and sole proprietors to know their closing will be handled correctly.
Title insurance provides homeowners and lenders with protection from claims made against a piece of property. Imagine this scenario: you purchase a home. You paid the cost of the house, and have moved in with your family. One day someone shows up saying that they have a claim against the property. Perhaps the previous owner used the property as leverage in order to get a loan. As it turns out the person has a legitimate claim to some of the value of the property. What can you do to avoid this situation from occurring?
The answer, of course, is to get title insurance. These insurance policies will protect your ownership. If there is a defect in the title that you received in the transaction, then the insurance will cover the costs associated with settling the lien or other interest that another person has in your property.
Of course, title insurance is extremely important to lenders. Lenders do not wish to lend money to someone, using the home as collateral, just to find out that their interest in the property is secondary to someone’s prior interest.
Purchasing real estate is a complex transaction. From finding the right property to obtaining financing with the bank, a real estate transaction requires multiple steps before the deal can be completed. For real estate investors, several factors must carefully be considered before purchasing a property. At the De Bruin Law Firm, our Greenville, South Carolina attorneys are experienced in various types of real estate transactions and possess the knowledge our clients need to help them achieve their investment goals.
Investing in real estate is often profitable. Whether a single individual purchases a home to “flip” it or several individuals go in to purchase an investment property, in the right market, investors may make an impressive profit. With advice from an experienced real estate attorney who knows the local market, buyers have a much better chance of earning a return on their investment.
For real estate agents and mortgage brokers the closing is the final hurdle when helping their clients purchase or sell their home.
Real estate transactions are not only major purchases or sales for most people but are actually major life events. When people make the decision to sell their home or to purchase a new one they are laying a lot on the line, which means that the experience can be emotional and stressful as well. The best real estate professionals understand this reality and work to provide their clients with expert advice.
At De Bruin Law Firm, we understand how important our role in real estate transactions is and we strive to make the process of purchasing or selling a home run as smoothly as possible.
The De Bruin Law firm offers a wide range of legal services to clients in Greenville, SC and the surrounding upstate. Our experienced attorneys can help you with legal matters in the areas of business law, criminal law, estate planning, and real estate law.
