# The Talon Group

> The Talon Group is a title insurance and escrow closing operation that sits in the middle of real estate deals - the party that checks who really owns a property, clears the liens and back taxes nobody mentioned, holds the money in escrow, and gets the deed recorded so a sale actually sticks. It paired local underwriters and closers who knew their county's quirks with the deep reserves of a national title company (First American Title), and built its reputation on a plain promise: closing day should be uneventful.

- **Founded:** 2003
- **Headquarters:** Bellevue, Washington, United States
- **Team size:** About 95 employees associated with the group; the Puget Sound operation ran roughly seven regional offices, and the affiliated Michigan title agency is a locally owned 11-50 person operation.
- **Products:** Title Insurance, Escrow & Closing Services, Title Search & Examination, Settlement (RESPA) Services, Online Transaction Tracking
- **Notable:** Launched a new Pacific Northwest title-and-escrow brand from scratch in 2003 and scaled it to roughly seven offices across a five-county region., Paired local underwriting and escrow expertise with one of the largest title insurance reserves in the industry., Fielded proprietary technology that let clients track their transactions online, ahead of much of the industry.

## Products & services

- **Title Insurance** — Owner's and lender's title policies that protect buyers and mortgage lenders against defects in the chain of title - undisclosed liens, unpaid taxes, forgery, recording errors, competing ownership claims - discovered after closing.
- **Escrow & Closing Services** — Neutral third-party handling of funds and documents through a real estate transaction: holding earnest money and loan proceeds, coordinating signatures, disbursing payoffs, and recording the deed.
- **Title Search & Examination** — Research of public property records to build the chain of title and surface anything - liens, easements, judgments, heirs, back taxes - that could cloud ownership before a sale closes.
- **Settlement (RESPA) Services** — Full settlement services performed in-region; the affiliated Michigan agency performs RESPA settlement services across all 83 counties of the state.
- **Online Transaction Tracking** — Proprietary technology that let clients and their agents follow the status of a title and escrow file online rather than by phone tag.

## Achievements

- Launched a new Pacific Northwest title-and-escrow brand from scratch in 2003 and scaled it to roughly seven offices across a five-county region.
- Paired local underwriting and escrow expertise with one of the largest title insurance reserves in the industry.
- Fielded proprietary technology that let clients track their transactions online, ahead of much of the industry.
- Built a Talon-branded title and escrow footprint that continues in Michigan across all 83 counties.

## Latest updates

- **2011-08** — First American Title consolidated The Talon Group and Pacific Northwest Title back under the First American Title brand in the Puget Sound market.
- **2025-01** — The Talon name continues as a title and escrow agency serving local Michigan markets (Traverse City, Ludington, Manistee) across all 83 counties of the state.

## Links

- Website: https://thetalonsgroup.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-talon-group
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/TalonTitle
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetalonsgroup/

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