Title company in Melbourne · Brevard County
Paradise Title is 21 miles south of Melbourne, 32 minutes down US-1 in Sebastian. Recording goes to the Brevard County Clerk of the Court, the same office that takes Palm Bay. What differs is what a search here must cover.
What a search here has to cover
Melbourne’s settlers arrived after 1877. Eau Gallie was founded separately in the 1870s by William H. Gleason. In 1969 the two voted to consolidate, doubling Melbourne’s size.
Eau Gallie
Pre-1969 instruments, plats, easements and ordinances covering half the city are indexed under Eau Gallie, not Melbourne.
Melbourne
Everything recorded before that vote is still recorded the way it was written.
City of Melbourne
We search both, which is the difference between finding a 1940s easement and closing over it.
The Eau Gallie Historic District sits in that older half: 9.43 acres, 22 properties, 12 contributing structures from roughly 1900 to the 1950s. The City adopted Design Guidelines with it and designated it only with every owner’s written agreement. Guidelines restrict use, so they belong in the file.
The files this city sends us
The lease comes with the house
Tenant-occupied purchases
We assign the lease and transfer or account for the security deposit under s. 83.49 F.S.
Estoppels, milestone and SIRS
Condo and association files
Estoppels from the association, plus the milestone inspection and structural integrity reserve study questions behind any coming assessment.
L3Harris, Northrop, Collins, Embraer
Relocation closings
Cleared aerospace and defence hires arrive on an employer programme and a fixed start date. We work to the date.
2.8% growth against Palm Bay’s 23.7%
Older resale files
Open and expired permits, additions nobody permitted, prior renovation liens, and lead-based paint disclosure before 1978.
The address is not the jurisdiction
A Melbourne mailing address is not always the City of Melbourne.
West Melbourne, Melbourne Village and unincorporated Brevard areas such as Suntree and Viera all carry Melbourne mailing addresses. Each means a different municipal lien search, code enforcement authority and millage. We confirm jurisdiction from the parcel, not the envelope.
How your file runs
Contract in, file open
The same day it arrives, and we tell you who is handling it.
We search
Both names, Melbourne and Eau Gallie, plus the lien search for the parcel’s actual jurisdiction. A defect gets a phone call and a plan.
Figures go out before closing day
Not at the table.
You sign in Sebastian
We record with Brevard, and the policy follows.
Questions
Questions we get from Melbourne.
Why does a Melbourne title search have to look under Eau Gallie?
Melbourne and Eau Gallie were separate municipalities until they consolidated in 1969, so anything recorded before then is indexed under whichever city was in force at the time.
My mail says Melbourne. Is the property in the City of Melbourne?
Not necessarily, because West Melbourne, Melbourne Village and unincorporated Brevard areas such as Suntree and Viera also carry Melbourne addresses, each with its own lien search.
I am buying a 1950s Melbourne house. What do you look for?
Open and expired permits, additions that were never permitted, liens left from earlier renovations, and the federal lead-based paint disclosure required on homes built before 1978.
I am buying a rented Melbourne property. What happens to the deposit?
The lease runs with the property, and s. 83.49 F.S. requires the tenant’s security deposit to be transferred to you or accounted for at closing.
I am relocating to Melbourne on a fixed start date. Can you work to it?
Yes, we open the file the day the contract arrives and send your figures out ahead of closing day rather than at the table.
My Melbourne property is on the Eau Gallie side. Does the historic district affect me?
Only if the parcel sits inside the Eau Gallie Historic District, which covers 9.43 acres and 22 properties, because inside it the City’s adopted Design Guidelines restrict alterations and run with the land.
Why Paradise Title
Who actually handles your Melbourne file.
Paradise Title has been closing from the 1919 brick house at 1208 US-1 in Sebastian since 2005. Diane Shampine and Kim Muir run the closings, and Sandy Carpenito searches and examines the title here in our own office rather than sending it to a vendor three states away. Between the three of them there is more than 75 years of title work. We are an independently owned title and escrow company, and an agent for Chicago Title Insurance Company, part of Fidelity National Financial.
Call Today for a Title!
There is no form on this website. Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, a person here answers the phone. Tell them the address and the closing date and they will tell you what happens next.