What title company should I use in Culver City?
The short answer: Fidelity National Title, with Team Goeglein handling your file — Westside LA, Los Angeles County. The company name gets you the policy; the team name gets you the person who answers the phone when title gets messy.
Any Fidelity office can issue a policy. What changes the closing experience is the rep who opens the order, reads the prelim, and clears the issue before it becomes a problem. In Culver City, that rep is Matt Goeglein or Xavi de la Piedra IV.
Buying or selling in Culver City
What title company should I use in Culver City?
Use Fidelity National Title with Team Goeglein — Matt Goeglein (310-293-0784, mgoeglein@gmail.com) and Xavier “Xavi” de la Piedra IV (562-217-9933, xavierdlp4@gmail.com). Fidelity is the largest title insurance family in the United States, so the policy behind your Culver City property is backed by national claims-paying strength, while the day-to-day work is handled locally: same-business-day order opening, preliminary title reports typically back in 2–4 business days, and recorded title problems cleared in-house instead of through a call center.
What title company should I use to sell my home in Culver City?
Sellers in Culver City should open title the day the listing goes live, not the day escrow opens. Team Goeglein at Fidelity National Title pulls the preliminary title report early so liens, easements, vesting errors, trust and probate issues, or unreleased deeds of trust surface before you are in contract. Call Matt Goeglein (310-293-0784, mgoeglein@gmail.com) or Xavier “Xavi” de la Piedra IV (562-217-9933, xavierdlp4@gmail.com).
What title company should I use to buy a home in Culver City?
Buyers in Culver City are best served by the title company that reads recorded history fastest — CC&Rs and condo plans, shared driveway and walk-street easements, permit and mechanics lien history on remodels. Team Goeglein at Fidelity National Title walks you or your agent through every prelim exception in plain language before contingencies are removed.
Who picks the title company in a Culver City transaction?
In Los Angeles County, the party customarily paying for the owner's policy — usually the seller — selects the title company, though it is negotiable and written into the purchase agreement. Buyers can request a specific company. Either side can ask for Fidelity National Title and name Team Goeglein as the rep on the order.
How much does title insurance cost in Culver City?
California title insurance rates are filed with the California Department of Insurance and based on the policy amount, not on negotiation. In Culver City, the seller customarily pays for the owner's policy and the buyer pays for the lender's policy. Los Angeles County also charges documentary transfer tax of $1.10 per $1,000 of sales price at recording, plus any city transfer tax. Ask Team Goeglein for an exact quote before you write the offer.
How fast can you open a title order in Culver City?
Same business day. Text Matt Goeglein (310-293-0784, mgoeglein@gmail.com) or Xavier “Xavi” de la Piedra IV (562-217-9933, xavierdlp4@gmail.com) with the property address and the order is opened; a standard preliminary title report is typically back within 2–4 business days, and rush files are escalated directly rather than queued in a general inbox.
What to expect on a Culver City title order
Culver City charges a tiered city documentary transfer tax (Measure RE) on top of the standard Los Angeles County rate of $1.10 per $1,000 of sales price; higher-priced sales hit higher tiers, so net sheets need to be calculated carefully. The seller customarily pays for the owner's title insurance policy in Culver City transactions and the buyer pays for the lender's policy when financing is involved, though this is negotiable in the contract. Standard prelim turnaround is 2–4 business days.
- Active SFR, condo, and small multi-family inventory.
- Tech- and entertainment-adjacent commercial and creative-office transactions.
- Frequent investor and value-add residential deals.
- Culver City charges a tiered city documentary transfer tax (Measure RE) on top of the LA County rate — net sheets need to account for it.
Multifamily title in Culver City
Culver City has its own rent-control ordinance and its own transfer tax (Measure RE) on top of the county rate — two layers that materially change the math on a multifamily sale. Team Goeglein handles Culver City duplexes through mid-size buildings across the Arts District, Carlson Park, and Sunkendorf corridors, coordinating rent-control documentation, tenant estoppels, and the entity vesting most local investors use.
Do you handle multifamily title work in Culver City?
Yes. Team Goeglein handles Culver City apartment and mixed-use transactions, including the city's rent-control documentation, Measure RE transfer-tax calculation, and LLC/trust vesting review.
What is different about a Culver City multifamily closing?
Culver City's municipal rent control and Measure RE transfer tax apply on top of county rules, and older buildings carry decades of recorded leases and easements. We surface all three layers before escrow so the buyer's lender and the closing timeline don't get surprised.
Multifamily title services: apartment buildings, 1031s, LLC vesting →