Proper Title, LLC, a full-service title insurance agency serving the residential and commercial real estate industries, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
The company launched in 2013 with two offices in Chicago’s north suburbs – Northbrook and Libertyville. Since then, the title insurance agency has expanded to 14 closing offices spanning locations throughout metropolitan Chicago and Northwest Indiana.
“Proper Title’s evolution is unmistakably a result of our experienced, knowledgeable team building strong relationships and making customer service the top priority,” said Kathy Kwak, chief operating officer, Proper Title. “I’m looking forward to see where our continued standard of excellence will take us over the next 10 years and beyond.”
In 2015, Proper Title founded Proper Giving, a nonprofit organization funded with a percentage collected from every residential and commercial transaction. To date, Proper Giving has donated $420,000 to local charities, with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago being the largest beneficiary. In addition, Proper Title employees volunteer at Lurie Children’s throughout the year and support the hospital’s annual Move for Kids walk. Proper Title also emails its attorney clients requesting they nominate their favorite not-for-profit charity for a quarterly charity nomination. Proper Title’s board of directors reviews the nominees and sends a $2,500 donation to the selected charity.
Proper Title has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers and has won the Fidelity Excellence in Action award for nine consecutive years.
Other accolades include being named a top workplace by the Chicago Tribune in 2022 and earning the WFG National Title Insurance Company Wow Award in 2021 and 2022.
Established when the housing market was beginning to rebound from the Great Recession, Proper Title identified a growing demand among attorneys, brokers and lenders for concierge-level delivery of title insurance and escrow services. This led to rapid expansion. By its fifth year, Proper Title had emerged as the fastest-growing title agency in the Midwest. In 2018, the agency added offices in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood and in west suburban Oak Brook, Ill. Offices in south suburban Orland Park and northwest suburban Park Ridge were added in 2020, and closing locations in Naperville, Ill., Schererville, Ind., and Valparaiso, Ind., opened in 2021.
“As someone who has been with Proper Title since day one, it has been exciting to see how we have risen to be one of the largest title insurance agencies in Illinois in just 10 years,” said David Zawadzki, vice president of business development for Proper Title. “I am grateful to our excellent team of professionals who have gone above and beyond in customer service and to our clients who have trusted us with their real estate closings.”