5,200+ manual property searches per month were performed in Fidelity National Title Insurance’s Title Policy system by a National Real Estate Law Firm with 60+ offices. Finding Fidelity policies to base property title on significantly reduced this firm’s title costs.

However, the firm’s title employees had to manually login to Fidelity’s Title Policy System, enter property information and view the results. Manual searches were time consuming and open to entry errors.

To avoid double entry, this law firm wanted a way to use the property address information already available in their real estate title system.
 

The law firm used Softpro’s Real Estate Closing System. However, the Softpro System doesn’t have a title order tracking module.

Years ago API Coders’ designed a MS SQL Real Estate Title System for this law firm. All orders already passed through our custom code to normalize the data before being accepted into our title portal.

Fidelity has a FNF SOAP API which allows access to all their title policies. All that was needed was a way to take all the orders as they were being sent to the title system from Softpro and automatically check the Fidelity Title System using their FNF SOAP API for policy availability.

If a policy was available, a colored icon is set to visually notify the title department. One click of the icon and all Fidelity PDF title policies matching the property are displayed.

Since policies become available constantly on Fidelity’s FNF Title Policy System, an icon was placed on reports to do one click real time title policy searches using the title system’s property information. No manual entry is required to search for a property address.

With an automated solution, the cost of running real estate titles is reduced further. Employees are able to focus on processing orders quickly. The real estate law firm was able to expand offices without increasing staff.