PA Title Insurance Blog

In rem versus In personam.  Do all judgment liens matter to your deal?  Not necessarily.  Judgment liens are monetary awards in favor of ...

John Smith and Mary Jones, a lovely couple, buy a house together, using the services of a reputable PA Title Insurance Company.  They ...

Pennsylvania Transfer Tax Exemptions As a PA Title Insurance company we get inquiries all the time regarding the transfers of ownership for PA properties.  ...

As previously written the Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved a Title Insurance Rate Simplification, Rate Increase and Manual Revisions submitted by the Title ...

  PA Title Insurance Rates are about to change. The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has approved the Rate Simplification for all Title Insurance Rating Bureau ...

Last November a Special Library Tax was approved by the voters in the City of Pittsburgh. The special tax was instituted to generate ...

    It is worth noting that earlier this month, PLTA's President, Phil Janny, provided testimony opposing the Pennsylvania House Bill 1877 The purpose of the ...

Pursuant to the January 1st, 2012 changes by the City of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in increasing its Realty Transfer Tax to 2.8%, below is an ...

This is a continuation of our series of posts on Pennsylvania Transfer tax and the “unusual transaction”.  As a reminder the PA Realty ...

The "unusual transaction" always creates questions on what the applicable amount of transfer tax is or whether it applies at all. We receive ...