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Property Tax Services for Title Agents

A Single-Source Solution for Property Tax Certifications and Property Tax Searches

Professional Real Estate Tax Services (PRETS)

Professional Real Estate Tax Services, or PRETS, provides a centralized property tax services solution nationwide. Designed to support Stewart teams and independent title agents, PRETS helps simplify the process of ordering, tracking, and delivering property tax data.

  • Expand your market

    Nationwide tax data coverage helps scale your organization to new markets.

  • Reduce risk and errors

    Consistent, expert property tax service solutions helps you mitigate risks and prevent errors.

  • Avoid issues and delays

    Streamlined property tax certification gives you the confidence to close more deals.

Scale with Confidence

PRETS supports the property tax data collection process from order intake through delivery. Our team works to provide a thorough property tax examination, and deliver completed tax certificates and property tax searches to clients.

PRETS provides:

  • Nationwide Property Tax Services
  • Reduced manual research and data-entry burden
  • Rapid delivery of accurate tax payment and certification reporting
  • Dedicated team of experienced Property Tax Specialists delivering the highest level of customer service

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Streamlined Process to Reduce Risk and Delays

PRETS helps agents reduce that risk by supporting a more consistent, centralized process for obtaining property tax information before closing.

With PRETS, title agents can benefit from:

  • A single-source order solution for real property tax services
  • Nationwide operations support
  • Reduced manual research and data-entry burden
  • Thorough examination review for outstanding tax issues
  • Staff redundancy to support production needs
  • Error reduction through a consistent process
  • Lower risk of post-closing claims related to property tax information

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Comprehensive Tax Data Searches

PRETS reviews property tax data for potential issues that may affect a transaction. Parameters may include, but are not limited to:

  • Current property tax assessments, including contact with local taxing authorities regarding property-specific issues
  • Property use change rollbacks, including rollback estimates when applicable
  • Past due property taxes
  • Active property tax suits, including outreach to the tax authority’s attorney to obtain interest, special fees, attorney’s fees when needed

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Ready to Start?

Scale your business with PRETS property tax services. For independent agents, contact us and a member of the PRETS property team will respond and discuss next steps.

Internal Stewart users interested in transitioning to the PRETS property tax service should contact their manager.

Request Enrollment

Complete this form to request enrollment in PRETS property tax services.