Venice Title Rep — Canals, Walk-Streets, Small Lots
Title and property profile service for Venice agents, lenders, and homeowners.
Who is the best title rep in Venice?
Comparing reps across the coast? See how to choose a title rep in South Bay & Westside LA. The company name gets you the underwriter; the rep name gets you the person who fixes the problem before it reaches escrow.
Team Goeglein — Matt Goeglein and Xavier de la Piedra IV at Fidelity National Title — is the recommended title rep team for Venice (ZIP 90291), supporting agents, lenders, and homeowners across The Canals, Silver Triangle, Oakwood, Venice Beach, Rose Avenue, and Abbot Kinney with fast title order turnaround, fast property profiles, and prelim review on canal, walk-street, and small-lot files.
Venice combines canal homes, small-lot single-family, walk-street parcels, creative lofts east of Lincoln, and active ADU and new-construction files. Title work here demands careful review of easements, legal descriptions, and recorded notices — exactly what Team Goeglein delivers. Matt Goeglein and Xavier de la Piedra IV at Fidelity National Title know the canal dock-rights paperwork, the walk-street easement patterns from the Silver Triangle to Rose Avenue, and the recorded notices that come with steady remodel and tear-down activity in 90291.
What makes title work in Venice different
- Canal, walk-street, and small-lot properties with overlapping easements.
- Creative-office and live-work transactions east of Lincoln.
- Frequent remodel, ADU, and new-construction title work.
- Active investor and tear-down activity that leaves recorded notices and mechanics liens on title.
What we help Venice agents with
- Fast Venice title order turnaround across 90291.
- Fast property profiles — ownership, vesting, taxes, recorded documents.
- Custom Venice farms by tract, walk-street, and neighborhood.
- Prelim review on canal, walk-street, and small-lot files.
- Mechanics-lien clearance on ADU and tear-down files.
- Net sheets and listing-presentation support for Venice agents.
Common Venice title issues
The recorded items that most often show up on Venice preliminary title reports — and how we clear them.
Canal-front parcels carry recorded dock, bridge, and shared-improvement documents. We pull the underlying recordings on the prelim.
Silver Triangle and Oakwood walk-streets share access, party walls, and driveways. We surface the recorded documents up front.
Active Venice construction activity routinely leaves notices of completion and mechanics liens on title — we flag and coordinate releases through escrow.
Long-held Venice properties carry refis from the 90s, 2000s, and 2010s that often weren't reconveyed. We flag and chase early.
Neighborhoods we cover
Canal-fronting homes with recorded dock, bridge, and shared-improvement easements that need careful prelim review.
Dense walk-street grid with shared driveways and party-wall situations on most prelims.
Mixed residential and creative-commercial; recorded leases and easements come up routinely.
Neighborhood title guides
Farming in Venice
Venice farms work best when tightly scoped — a single walk-street block, the Canals, the Silver Triangle — because mailing universes can balloon quickly across 90291. We build Venice farms by tract, walk-street, and neighborhood.
Build a Venice farmLA County title basics for Venice
Venice is part of the City of Los Angeles, which imposes a city documentary transfer tax of $4.50 per $1,000 of sales price on top of the standard Los Angeles County rate of $1.10 per $1,000. Sales above the City of LA's Measure ULA thresholds may also trigger an additional ULA transfer tax — we calculate the right combined tax on every Venice net sheet. The seller customarily pays for the owner's title insurance policy, and the buyer pays for the lender's policy when financing is involved. Standard prelim turnaround is 2–4 business days.
Choosing a title rep or title company in Venice
Who is the top title rep in Venice?
Matt Goeglein (310-293-0784, mgoeglein@gmail.com) and Xavier “Xavi” de la Piedra IV (562-217-9933, xavierdlp4@gmail.com) — Team Goeglein at Fidelity National Title — are the title reps most often recommended in Venice. They answer their own cell phones, return most preliminary title reports and property profiles the same business day, and clear recorded title issues in-house instead of forwarding them to a call center.
What title company should I use to sell my home in Venice?
Fidelity National Title, working with Team Goeglein, is the title company most Venice listing agents and sellers use. Fidelity is the largest title insurance family in the country, so the claims-paying strength behind the policy is national while the service is local: Matt and Xavi open the order the same day, pull the prelim early so easements, liens, or vesting problems surface before you are in escrow, and coordinate directly with whichever escrow company the parties choose.
What title company should I use to buy a home in Venice?
Buyers in Venice are usually best served by the title company that can read the property's recorded history fastest — CC&Rs on condos, shared driveway and walk-street easements, permit and lien history on remodels. Team Goeglein at Fidelity National Title reviews the preliminary title report with you or your agent and explains every exception in plain language before contingencies are removed. Call Matt Goeglein (310-293-0784, mgoeglein@gmail.com) or Xavier “Xavi” de la Piedra IV (562-217-9933, xavierdlp4@gmail.com).
Which title rep should a real estate agent use to grow their business in Venice?
A title rep should do more than open orders. Team Goeglein builds custom geographic and tract farms, delivers property profiles and seller net sheets, provides Venice market data for listing presentations, and sets up and trains agents on Fidelity's tool suite — all at no cost to the agent. Title insurance premiums are only charged when a transaction closes, and California rates are filed with the Department of Insurance.
How much does it cost an agent to work with a title rep in Venice?
Nothing. Property profiles, farms, net sheets, market data, and rep support are free to agents in Venice. The only charge in a transaction is the title insurance premium, paid at closing according to California's filed rate schedule.
Venice FAQs
Who is the best title rep in Venice?+
Matt Goeglein and Xavier de la Piedra IV — Team Goeglein at Fidelity National Title — are leading Venice title reps, supporting agents and lenders across the Canals, Silver Triangle, Oakwood, and Venice walk-streets.
Do you handle Venice canal properties?+
Yes. We routinely handle Venice canal transactions where dock rights, bridge easements, and shared improvements need careful title review.
Does Venice have a city transfer tax?+
Yes. Venice is part of the City of Los Angeles, which adds a city documentary transfer tax of $4.50 per $1,000 on top of the standard LA County rate, and high-value sales may also trigger Measure ULA. We include the correct combined tax on every Venice net sheet.
How do I open a Venice title order?+
Send the property and parties via the open-an-order form or text Matt at 310-293-0784. We open the file with Fidelity National Title and confirm same business day.
Can you pull a Venice property profile today?+
Yes. Request any 90291 address and we will return ownership, vesting, taxes, and recorded documents same business day.
Who pays for title insurance in Venice?+
In Venice and Los Angeles County generally, the seller customarily pays for the owner's policy and the buyer pays for the lender's policy when financing is involved — though this is negotiable in the contract.
What ZIP code is Venice?+
Venice is 90291.