Protecting your clients,
and your reputation.
Title Insurance can provide your client with cover to ensure a smooth, simple and safe transaction process, helping to keep your client relationship on solid ground.
Title Insurance can provide your client with cover to ensure a smooth, simple and safe transaction process, helping to keep your client relationship on solid ground.
Preparing for the unplanned.
Properties come in all shapes and sizes — houses, units, townhouses, and vacant land.
They’re unique, but they all share one thing: a “Title”. Even with a top-notch conveyancer, hidden issues can still lurk behind the scenes.
Policies built to last.
With Title Insurance, your client only pays a one-off premium for the policy, which lasts for the entire time they own the property. No excess payable, no annual premiums paid.
Premiums start from $520.69 for homes, or $390.51 for strata properties valued up to $500,000.
BECOME AN ORDERING PARTY.
When you register to become an ordering party, we’ll provide
you with an account manager and access to settlement
escalation when we are looking after your settlements.
Why partner with us?
We stand by you through surprises.
We place people over process - this includes you. If you make an error in good faith, like miscalculating outstanding taxes or rates, we cover the property owner and we can waive our right of subrogation and any liability for legal practitioners.
We protect the entire property.
Our illegal building work coverage is not limited to the main dwelling on First Title policies. This provides extra benefits for rural properties that may have outbuildings and additional structures.
Perks for our peers.
We offer employees of our distributors a 25% discount on eligible policies, as well as an administration fee for assisting with First Title policy purchases. This fee can be waived and applied as a discount on the cost of the First Title policy for your client.
The best for your clients.
Your client can avoid costly property ownership risks with a single policy that covers unknown and unapproved building works, along with 20 other property-related risks.
No excess*. No recurring fees, ensuring coverage for as long as they own the property.
*Caps and exclusions may apply.
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What we cover.
Australia’s obsession with home renovation has made way for weekend handymen performing renovations not approved by council. The last thing your client needs after an expensive property purchase is a ‘please explain’ from local council demanding rectifications on the property. Title Insurance provides cover for certain structures or renovations built by previous owners without council approval up to $160k.
The majority of conveyancing transactions are completed without a survey report because they are expensive, leading to potential complications down the line if structures are discovered to be encroaching across a property boundary. Title Insurance provides cover for boundary issues and structures that have not been built within the true boundary.
Title Insurance covers for losses caused by errors contained in certain public property searches carried out when your client purchased land.
Title Insurance provides cover for loss caused by errors contained in certain public property searches, such as outstanding rates, charges and land tax payable.
Title Insurance provides cover for fraud (at the time of purchase or anytime during ownership).
Title Insurance extends coverage to rural properties, including boundary disputes and encroachments (does not apply to land in excess of 50 acres), unapproved building works, errors in property searches, tax adjustments, and fraud. We extend our coverage beyond the main dwelling on First Title policies, specifically designed to provide extra benefits for rural properties that may have outbuildings and additional structures.
Real life results.
After purchasing a home, our client identified via a survey report that the neighbour’s wall, eaves and awnings were encroaching on their land. First Title covered the cost to register a boundary realignment on title and compensated the client for their land loss.
Total payout $15,000.
After settlement of their home, our client was issued a council notice that a septic tank had been installed without approval. First Title paid for pumping out and cleansing of the old septic tank, and the design and installation of a new one with required approvals.
Total payout $60,800.
Shortly after settlement, our client was notified that the water rates were not adjusted for at settlement. First Title paid the outstanding water rates to our client.
Total payout $1,370.
Start the conversation with your client.
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