Greater Illinois Title Company, a Chicago based title insurance and real estate information services firm, has been recognized as one of the top places to work in the Chicago metropolitan area by the Chicago Tribune. The company is on the list of The Chicago Tribune Top Workplaces as a Workplace Achiever in 2014.

The Top Workplaces are determined based solely on employee feedback. The survey is conducted by Workplace Dynamics, LLP, a leading research firm on organizational health and employee engagement. WorkplaceDynamics conducts regional Top Workplaces programs in 40 major markets across the United States. The evaluation takes into account employee benefits, support of the local community and employee job satisfaction.

Greater Illinois Title Company’s success is tied to its people. Customers are the motivation and focus of the company and that attention to the customer has allowed GIT to connect with a wide variety of different clients to provide customized yet personal service. GIT has developed a company culture that provides flexibility, growth opportunities and a collaborative environment.  GIT staff cited the company’s great management, acceptance of new ideas and felt confident about their future at GIT. As evidence of being a Top Workplace, there are twenty-five employees that have been with the company for more than 25 years.

“We are very excited about the recognition of GIT being a Top Workplace in the Chicago metropolitan area,” stated Greg Kosin, President. “At GIT, employees work together to build a great company where they want to go to work. We have a culture of smart, dedicated and passionate people.”

Since 1985, Greater Illinois Title Company has been providing the Chicago with an innovative range of title insurance, escrow closing and real estate information services. The company has sixteen locations in Illinois and its subsidiary, Greater Indiana Title Company has four locations in Northwest Indiana.

For more information contact: Greg Kosin at: greg.kosin@gitc.com

Greater Illinois Title Company will hold its next Continuing Legal Education Seminar on Wednesday, November 5th at Maggiano’s in Oak Brook. This presentation will educate attorneys by offering an overview of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s eClosing Pilot Program. This program will target research on eClosing solutions involving managing documents, data transfer, electronic signatures, and consumer awareness.

This CLE series will provide a quality speaking lineup, including Ralph Schumann, Alec Cheung, and Nancy Pratt.

GIT has also invited a Chris Christensen, PeirsonPatterson LLP, to provide insights from the legal perspective as it relates to the CFPB eClosing Pilot Program.

To register for more information click here.

Greater Illinois Title Company (GIT), a Chicago-based real estate information

services provider and Illinois’ largest title insurance agency, has announced that

it has opened a full service title insurance and closing operation in Indiana.

Greater Indiana Title Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Greater Illinois

Title Company has opened its main office in Merriville and closing locations in

Munster, Valparaiso and St. John. Greater Indiana Title will service customers in

Northwest Indiana and throughout the state.

Cindy Colvin has joined Greater Indiana Title Company as a Senior Commercial

Escrow Officer. Ms. Colvin, formerly a commercial loan officer and commercial

lender, most recently worked as a Commercial Closing Officer and Account

Manager for a local title company. She has been in the industry for over twenty years.

L to R: Kristin Busch, Greater Indiana Title Company; Cindy Colvin, Greater Indiana Title Company

Kristin Busch also joined Greater Indiana Title Company and has been named

Executive Account Manager for GIT. Ms. Busch, who has fifteen years of

industry experience, received her MBA from Indiana University. She will be

responsible for business development and sales throughout the state. She will

also focus her efforts on national business to be serviced by GIT’s National Title

Services Group™.

Greater Indiana Title Company will offer title insurance policies underwritten by

Chicago Title Insurance Company and Old Republic National Title Insurance Company.

Founded in 1985, Greater Illinois Title Company is the largest title agency in

Illinois and one of the largest title agencies in the country. In 2013 it was named

in the Top Ten in the country and awarded the Title Agency Excellence Award

by the Fidelity National Title Group. The company operates through a network of

sixteen offices in the Chicago area and provides title insurance, land surveys, tax

deferred exchanges, construction and commercial escrow services, sale and

refinance closing services and real estate information for customers across the country.

“We are expanding our reach into new states to follow existing customers and to

gain access to new customers and new markets”, stated GIT’s president,

Gregory M. Kosin.  “Cindy and Kristin will be valuable and innovative resources

to clients and will focus their efforts on growing GIT’s business across all market

segments.”

For Further Information Please Contact:

Gregory M. Kosin

Greater Illinois Title Company

120 North La Salle Street Suite 900

Chicago, Illinois 60602

Phone: 312.264.4714

greg.kosin@gitc.com

Greater Illinois Title Company will continue it’s CLE series “Real Estate  for Changing Times.” This presentation will provide attorneys with current information by offering an overview of important topics such as recent Commercial and Construction Real Estate law update, the CFPB E-closing Pilot Program, and matters relating to the Federal Regulation of Real Estate. 

Located in the heart of Downtown, this CLE series provides a quality speaking lineup, including Samuel H. Levine, Christopher W. Christensen, and Timothy V. Kemp.

To register for more information click here.

Greater Illinois Title Company is a proud sponsor of the Crain’s Real Estate Breakfast on Tuesday, September 23^rd  at the Chicago Club.

Coffee Networking Reception 7:30 a.m. • Breakfast Program 8:00 – 9:45 a.m.

Don’t miss featured guest, W. Rockwell “Rocky” Wirtz, interviewed by Alby Gallun, Senior Reporter, Crain’s Chicago Business.

To register or for more information click here

Greater Illinois Title Company announced that it has formed a new division, the National Title Services Group ™ (NTSG) to streamline its growing national business through a separate business unit. NTSG™ will provide new opportunities for out-of-state residential and commercial title business development and will provide full service title insurance and settlement services for real estate transactions nationwide.

GIT now writes title insurance policies and can handle closings directly in five states: Illinois, Iowa,  Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. With the NTSG in place and operating, and through our national resources with bothChicago Title and Old Republic National Title, GIT can now coordinate transactions in any of the other 45 states seamlessly and through a single point of contact for clients.

Greater Indiana Title Company, a subsidiary of Greater Illinois Title Company, will be opening an office in Munster, IN by the end of June and will follow with an office in Merriville, IN by the end of July.

The NTSG™ will be headed up by Guy P. Lundstrom, Senior Vice President, a thirty year veteran of the title industry. He will be assisted by Dan Hyma, Vice President, a twenty five year veteran. NTSG™ will coordinate commercial title clearance, commercial escrow closing matters and commercial underwriting decisions for GIT’s expanding national business.

GIT will be operating through the following entities:

Illinois:         Greater Illinois Title Company

Iowa:             Greater Illinois Title Company

Indiana:        Greater Indiana Title Company

Wisconsin:  Greater Wisconsin Title Company

Michigan:     GIT Michigan Title Services

All companies will offer title insurance policies underwritten by Chicago Title Insurance Company and Old Republic Title Insurance Company. All title order requests should be referred to Guy and Dan who will be managing the NTSG™. The National Title Services Group™ will process all title orders outside of Illinois.

NTSG can be reached at ntsg@gitc.com or at 312.264.5000.

Please feel free to contact me any time with any questions.

Gregory M. Kosin

                President             

Email: Greg.Kosin@gitc.com

Greater Illinois Title was a proud annual sponsor of the Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association IMBA Golf Outing last week. GIT also sponsored a hole on the beautiful Silver Lake Country Club, Orland Park course. A few GIT account managers were in full attendance and dressed the part.

GIT is proud to welcome Bill Motluck to the company as a Senior Account Manager. Bill earned a BA in Business Administration from Lewis University and spent time as a business manager with the San Diego Padres baseball organization. He also owned a Century 21  real estate offices in Chicago Heights and Richton Park.

Bill spent 7 years in sales with GIT before departing for a period of time with the Fidelity family of title insurers. Bill brings experience, dedication and enthusiasm to his role of Senior Account Manager at Greater Illinois Title. Bill will be based out of the GIT Downers Grove office and looks forward to working with his many friends and associates in the industry. Welcome back Bill!!

GIT held another very successful CLE Seminar yesterday. We had over 110 attorneys attend and were treated to one of our best programs ever. GIT is taking the lead to inform the attorney agent community of the need for data security and to prepare for new regulatory compliance issues in the future. Data Security, bankruptcy, and commercial case law updates were the hot topics.

Greater Illinois Title Company (GIT), a Chicago-based title insurance and real estate information services provider, has announced that Dan Shook of Aurora has been named a Regional Account Manager for the company.

Dan Shook started his career at Real Estate Index, Inc. a division of Fidelity National Title Group where he was responsible for residential and commercial business development. He was a Million Dollar Club Award winner for seven straight years and was later promoted to Director of Sales. After a brief period in the pharmaceutical industry, Dan Shook worked for Prairie Title as an account executive and in 2013 joined Meridian Title Corporation as a Senior Account Manager.

The announcement was made by Gregory M. Kosin GIT’s President. Mr. Shook’s territory will include Kane, Will, Kendall and parts of Du Page County. “Dan Shook’s expertise in sales, marketing and his knowledge of the industry will assist the company in its executing its strategy of organic growth and expanding our geographic footprint,” stated Kosin.  “He will focus his efforts on all segments of GIT’s business and continue the tradition of integrity and excellence in customer service at GIT.”

Greater Illinois Title Company is the largest title agent in Illinois and one of the largest title agencies in the country. The company provides title insurance, construction and commercial escrow services, sale and refinance closing services and real estate information throughout Illinois.

Greater Illinois Title Company currently operates through a network of sixteen offices located in Arlington Heights, Crystal Lake, Gurnee, Northbrook, Wheaton, Westchester, Downers Grove, Geneva, Oak Lawn, Orland Park, Homewood, Shorewood, Yorkville, in Chicago on North Milwaukee Avenue, Lincoln Park and in the Loop at 120 North La Salle Street.