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DMV Title Guy is your trusted title and settlement partner in Alexandria, VA. Fast, reliable closings for agents, lenders, and investors across Alexandria (independent city).

What We Offer

Title Services in Alexandria, VA

Pruitt Title LLC has been serving the Virginia real estate market since 2007. Our team handles every aspect of the title and settlement process — from search to closing — so your transaction closes on time, every time.

  • Title Search & Examination
  • Owner's Title Insurance
  • Lender's Title Insurance
  • Settlement & Escrow Services
  • Title Curative Work
  • Deed Preparation & Recording
  • 1031 Exchange Closings
  • Refinance Closings
  • Commercial Transactions
  • New Construction Closings
  • Investor / Wholesale Closings
  • Remote Online Notarization (RON)

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How It Works

The Closing Process in Alexandria

From contract to keys, here's what to expect when you work with DMV Title Guy in Alexandria, VA.

1

Open Order

Submit your purchase contract or refinance details. We'll confirm receipt within hours.

2

Title Search

We examine public records going back 50+ years to ensure clear, marketable title.

3

Title Commitment

You receive a full title commitment with all conditions and coverage details.

4

Clear to Close

We coordinate lender, buyer, seller, and agent schedules for a smooth settlement.

5

Settlement

Documents signed, funds disbursed, deed recorded. Keys delivered.

City of Alexandria· Recording & transfer taxes

What closing actually costs in Alexandria, VA

Median home price
$625,000
Typical total
2% to 5% for buyers, 1% to 3% for sellers
Regional transportation fees (seller)
0.2%
Recording office
City of Alexandria

What varies most in Alexandria is property type, not the tax schedule. The city's stock runs from Old Town rowhouses to Eisenhower Valley high-rises, and the paperwork differs sharply between them: a condo purchase brings a resale packet and an association transfer fee, an older Old Town parcel brings a longer chain of title and sometimes a historic-district covenant recorded against it. Both add cost and days that no percentage table shows.

Alexandria is an independent city, so it records through its own circuit court clerk rather than a county's. Virginia gives no locality the power to levy a transfer tax, so nothing of that kind is added here.

A sale in the City of Alexandria carries two separate regional fees, each $0.10 per $100: the regional WMATA capital fee under Va. Code § 58.1-802.3, which applies because this is a Northern Virginia Transportation Authority member, and the regional congestion relief fee under § 58.1-802.4, which applies because this is Planning District 8. Both statutes place the fee on the grantor, though in each case the parties may agree the buyer pays part of it, so the default is $0.20 per $100 of the sale price on the seller. On a $625,000 sale the two together come to $1,250. Purchase closings only: a refinance records a deed of trust rather than a conveyance, so neither fee nor the grantor tax applies to one.

Recordation tax is Virginia's state rate of $0.25 per $100 under Va. Code § 58.1-801, paid by the buyer. Under § 58.1-814 a locality that adopts an ordinance may add one-third of that ($0.0833 per $100), also charged to the buyer — so no Virginia locality levies $0.10 as recordation tax. Whether the City of Alexandria has adopted that ordinance is not reflected in these figures; confirm with the Circuit Court Clerk before relying on a recordation number.

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