Perry Title Company
Perry closings done right: title search, escrow, doc prep and recording from a Florida title agency licensed statewide.
Atlantic Title Firm provides title insurance, escrow, and closing services throughout Perry and the rest of Taylor County. Buyers, sellers, FSBOs, investors, and lenders rely on us for accurate, on-time closings — backed by local Perry know-how and statewide reach. Perry is the Taylor County seat and the Forest Capital of Florida, a mill town on Highway 19 surrounded by pine plantations, with the Big Bend coast of Keaton Beach, Dekle Beach and Steinhatchee thirty minutes away, a coast that took direct hits from Idalia in 2023 and Helene in 2024. Since Perry is the seat, every Taylor deed records here. Our Perry closings mix in-town resales, timber acreage with mineral reservations and coastal rebuild lots.
On a typical $220,000 Perry sale, the Florida-specific closing costs run about $2,742 (deed doc stamps + owner’s title + recording). In Taylor County, the seller customarily pays the owner’s title policy and usually chooses the closing agent.
Title & Closing Costs in Perry
If you have bought or sold in another state, two Perry line items will look unfamiliar. Florida taxes the transfer itself through deed doc stamps at $0.70 per $100, and it fixes the owner's title premium by regulation, so the rate is identical whether you close with us or anyone else in Taylor County. Worked through on a $220,000 Perry sale:
Example: $220,000 sale in Perry
These are illustrative — your actual costs depend on price, financing, prorations, and who pays what under the contract. Run your own numbers with the Perry closing cost calculator, or use the statewide tools below:
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What Is Different About Closing in Perry
Idalia and Helene rebuild titles. Keaton Beach, Dekle Beach and Steinhatchee lost most of their older homes in 2023 and 2024. We pull the county’s substantial-damage determinations, every repair and rebuild permit and check for demolition and debris liens before a buyer commits.
Coastal lots and the CCCL. Gulf-front and canal parcels sit in VE flood zones and seaward of the Coastal Construction Control Line, with sovereign submerged land and dock questions. We flag the CCCL and confirm every dock is permitted.
Timber land and mineral reservations. Most Taylor acreage traces to Buckeye, Foley and other timber-company conveyances with mineral and access reservations, plus agricultural exemptions and greenbelt clawbacks. We clear or except the reservations before the policy issues.
Manufactured homes and access. Many Taylor homes are manufactured on owned land, and some parcels reach the road only over timber-company land. We confirm legal access and handle retiring the title.
Who Pays for Title Insurance in Perry?
Who writes the check for the owner's policy in Perry? By Taylor County custom, the seller, which is also why the seller usually gets to choose the closing agent. The custom is strong but not binding: the contract's title paragraph decides, and we close plenty of Perry files where the buyer pays and picks, or where the cost is split.
Perry Closing Cost Quote
Buying, selling or refinancing in Perry? We'll send a written quote for title, escrow and recording within one business day.
Property Taxes & Homestead in Perry
The Taylor County Property Appraiser assesses Perry property every January 1, and the total levy is about 19.0 mills per $1,000 of taxable value (the 2025 City of Perry total rate; unincorporated Taylor County parcels use a different, usually lower, rate). A permanent resident can claim the homestead exemption and the Save Our Homes 3% cap; an investor or second-home buyer cannot, and every buyer inherits a fresh market-value assessment the year after closing. Model it before you make an offer.
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Once you sign and fund, Atlantic Title Firm records your deed (and mortgage, if any) with the Taylor County Clerk in Perry, pays the statutory recording fee of $10 for the first page plus $8.50 per additional page, and remits the deed and note doc stamps and intangible tax. Electronic recording means a Perry deed is usually on record the same day.
How Your Perry Closing Works
Open the File
Send us the executed contract — you, your agent or your lender. We open escrow, order the Perry search and send wire-safety instructions the same day.
Search & Clear
Our examiners run the Taylor County records for liens, judgments, easements and gaps in the chain, then clear what turns up.
Commitment & Figures
You receive the title commitment; we order payoffs, estoppels and the survey and build the settlement statement with your lender.
Sign, Fund, Record
You sign in person, by mail or by remote online notary; funds disburse; the deed records with the Taylor County Clerk and your owner's policy issues.
Perry Title & Property Considerations
Downtown Perry’s 1900s plats carry vacated streets and railroad rights of way, and older homes have unreleased mortgages and heirs’-property situations. Vacant coastal lots attract seller-impersonation fraud after disasters, which we screen for. Most Perry-area addresses are unincorporated Taylor County, with different millage from the city.
Deeds record with the Taylor County Clerk right in Perry. Recording is statewide, $10 for the first page and $8.50 per additional page, and we e-record on closing day.
Our Perry title search and examination are built to surface issues like these before you close — so you take title clean and your ownership is protected from day one.
Neighborhoods & Areas We Serve in Perry
Atlantic Title Firm closes throughout Perry, including downtown Perry, the Highway 19 corridor, Keaton Beach, Dekle Beach, Steinhatchee, the Aucilla River side, Shady Grove, Salem and the Taylor timber country:
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Does Atlantic Title Firm close in Perry and Keaton Beach?
Yes. We handle title insurance, escrow and closings throughout Perry, Keaton Beach, Steinhatchee, Shady Grove and the rest of Taylor County, for buyers, sellers, landowners, rebuilders and lenders.
What do title insurance and doc stamps cost on a Perry sale?
On a $220,000 Perry sale the Florida-specific items are about $1,540 in deed documentary stamps, $1,175 in owner's title insurance and roughly $27 in recording. Our Perry closing cost calculator adds lender fees and prorations.
Who pays for title insurance in Taylor County?
The seller customarily pays for the owner's title policy in Taylor County and usually chooses the closing agent. It is negotiable and the contract controls.
What should I check on a Keaton Beach lot after the hurricanes?
The county's substantial-damage determination, every repair and rebuild permit, demolition and debris liens, the CCCL and the flood zone. We pull all of it before you commit.
Do Taylor County timber parcels have mineral reservations?
Most do. We identify the reservation on the commitment and explain what it means before you buy.
A dedicated closer, co-branded marketing, and clear updates on every file — see why Perry agents make us their preferred title company.
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