Orange Coast Title history

In 1977, Orange Coast Title purchased a defunct title company in Riverside County and renamed it Orange Coast Title Company of Riverside.

OCT's Builder Services/Commercial Division began operations in 1979.

By 1983, OCT had garnered more than 13% of the Orange County market and achieved a No.

By 1986, the Riverside and San Bernardino county operations were combined into one office in Colton, California.

In late 1987, OCT acquired Terra Title in San Diego County, an established, successful organization with a complete title plant.

OCT created Orange Coast Financial Corp. in February of 1988 as a subsidiary to act as trustee in non-judicial foreclosures and as accommodator in 1031 exchanges.

Opening an office in Whittier, California, Record Title Company of California began to market residential resale and Builder Services business in May 1990.

In December 1991, Record Title Company of California combined its Santa Ana, California and Whittier, California offices in La Mirada, California to form at the time the largest single operation in the OCT organization.

In April 1992, Record Title Company of California changed its name to Orange Coast Title Company of Los Angeles.

In 1994, OCT took the lead in title technology, establishing a World Wide Web presence.

In 1995, OCT acquired BEC Trust Deed Services, a foreclosure trustee.

In July 1996, OCT opened Equity Title Agency in Phoenix, Arizona where it has grown to cover the entire "Valley of the Sun". Today Equity Title Agency is one of the premier and most successful Affiliated Business Arrangements in the US.

In 1997, BEC Trust Deed Services changed its name to Integrated Lender Services (ILS).

In February 2001, OCT purchased the assets of First Centennial Title in Reno, Nevada.

In January of 2002, California Title Company opened its doors in Orange County.

In 2003, Orange Coast Title of Riverside changed its name to Orange Coast Title Company of the Inland Empire (OCT IE) and San Bernardino County was added to its licensing authority.

In 2004, OCT became the first underwritten title company to obtain a license to operate in all 58 counties in the State of California.

In 2005, OCT's Lender Services Group in Anaheim, California opened a single office operation under the name Orange Coast Title Company of Texas in Sugar Land Texas, providing the ability to service its customers there and as a base for future growth.

In 2006, OCT opened Real Advantage (now OCLS) to round out its services to Lender clients in 38 states.

Courtesy Title's name was subsequently changed to Equity Title Insurance Agency and subsequently sold in 2008.

In 2009, OCT merged its OCT LA and OCT IE subsidiaries together to form Orange Coast Title Company of Southern California.

In 2014 OCT purchased a non-operating Title Insurance Company "Olympic Title Insurance", recapitalized it and re-domesticated it to California, renamed it Real Advantage Title Insurance Company (RATIC) and began writing title policies as a captive insurer.