Settlement Agents who close real estate transactions, such as Title Companies, Escrow Companies and Attorneys, often need mobile notaries to witness borrowers’ signatures on loan documents. Lenders, Builders and Estate Agents need good notaries as well.

This small, but critical component of the real estate deal called the “loan document signing” is an art form commonly dismissed as a clerical formality.

When an accurate signature is required over distance and need the next day, time is crucial as the deal could be dependent on its success. Customers of specialist notaries depend on them to uphold their reputations as closing professionals by representing them at this stage of the process.

It is therefore vital to use those notaries that will look after the reputation of the company that employs them, and that of the client being served.

So, beyond the basic capability of notarisation, what do you look for to effectively satisfy any customers’ signing needs?

The Preferred Notary is very happy with their role and knows it inside out. It is important that the borrower perceives that the notary is a neutral party, outsourced by the estate agency. The notary signing agent is therefore the purpose of making sure the borrowers are properly identified and the loan documents are properly executed.

The Preferred Notary role has developed away from other services within the process like estate agent, lender, closer or attorney within the transaction process. They recognise the expertise of fellow professionals when customers ask details about terms, and the effect of the financial and legal aspects of any document they have been asked to sign. The other professionals are normally available to help to sort the needs of any of the clients.

If you are looking for a reliable practitioner within the business, I would recommend searching in the phone directory under ‘solicitors sussex’, or ‘solicitors Crawley’ and selecting Bennett Griffin.