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| Kathy Kwak |
CHICAGO, IL – Proper Title, LLC,
a full-service title insurance firm serving the commercial and residential real
estate industry throughout the Chicagoland area, has announced the opening of a
new office at 552 S. Washington St., Suite #120, in Naperville, Ill., to
accommodate its fast-growing business.
The firm now offers a total of 10
closing locations across Chicago and its suburbs.
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| Kim Behrens |
“The timing is great due to the summer surge of home sales as the
typically busy spring season was postponed due to the pandemic,” said Kathy
Kwak, executive vice president of operations and counsel for Proper Title.
Quickly after shelter-in-place orders began, the firm expanded closing options
to include curbside and remote service to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
“I’m so proud of our staff that got creative and persevered
through the initial stages of this pandemic to develop safe solutions to
serving our clients and making closings happen with the same high standards
Proper Title is known for,” said Kwak.
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| Richard (Dick) Bales |
“To open a new office on top of all the
other challenges is another incredible accomplishment. Since we expanded into
the western suburbs two years ago, we have been capturing more and more market
share of the area’s title business.
"This new Naperville office is a perfect
complement to our existing offices in Oak Brook and St. Charles, and is
convenient for so many of our real estate attorneys, brokers and lenders.”
The new 1,100-square-foot Naperville office offers three closing
rooms and curbside capability to accommodate its steady stream of residential
and commercial closings.
As the state’s fourth-largest city, Naperville
continues growing in population, and this new Proper Title office is expected
to complete a high volume of closings, according to Kwak.
In July, Proper Title hired two industry veterans to serve clients
in the Naperville office: Richard (Dick) Bales as a senior underwriting
consultant and counsel, and Kim Behrens as an escrow officer.
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| Proper Title's new offices at 552 South Washington Street, Suite #120 Naperville, IL |
Both new hires
came to Proper Title after long tenures at Chicago Title Insurance Company,
including 31 years for Bales and 20 years for Behrens.
In addition to his
previous role as assistant regional counsel, Bales traveled the state as a
guest lecturer on all aspects of title insurance and has written numerous
articles for the Chicago Bar Association, the DuPage County Bar Association and
the Illinois State Bar Association.
Behrens most recently was an escrow closer
in Chicago Title’s Aurora/Yorkville office.
CONTACTS:
Kim
Manning, kmanning@taylorjohnson.com, (312) 267-4527
propertitle.com.
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