Escrow Services in San Bernardino County, California

Every deed, deed of trust and reconveyance for a property in the county is recorded with the San Bernardino County Assessor-Recorder-County Clerk, whose main office is in the City of San Bernardino. The county documentary transfer tax is $1.10 per $1,000 of value, and your settlement statement shows it along with any city tax and who pays each under your contract.

The county's housing is varied: older homes in the valley cities, master-planned communities with HOAs and special taxes in the west end, foothill and mountain homes in mapped fire hazard areas, and desert properties that may use septic systems or wells. Each brings its own disclosures and documents, and we adjust the escrow instructions to match.

We handle purchases and sales, For Sale By Owner transactions, refinances, short sales and 1031 exchanges anywhere in the county. If you are in the High Desert or the mountains, signing can be arranged with a mobile notary.

Choose your city below for local details, or open an escrow and tell us the property address.

Our office on Plum Lane in Redlands puts us close to the valley cities of the county, and we work with buyers, sellers, agents and lenders from the West End to the High Desert and the mountain communities. Mountain properties around Big Bear Lake, Lake Arrowhead and Crestline can involve cabins with septic systems, snow-load or road maintenance agreements, and fire hazard disclosures, while desert properties in places like Twentynine Palms or Barstow may involve wells, unpaved access or vacant land. Whatever the property, we write the escrow instructions to match the signed agreement and track each deadline until closing.

The county's cities run from Chino and Montclair at the Los Angeles County line through Ontario, Fontana and Rialto to San Bernardino, Redlands and Yucaipa, then north over the Cajon Pass to Hesperia, Apple Valley, Victorville and Adelanto, and out to Barstow, Needles and the Morongo Basin. Each has its own mix of housing and local rules, but every sale in the county records with the same county recorder.