Clever Closings Expands Its Digital Title and Escrow Service to 11 States, With Two More Planned in 2026

Clever Real Estate's closings division has added eight markets since June 2025, with escrow leaders bringing 250 years of combined title and settlement experience.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Clever Closings, the digital title and escrow division of Clever Real Estate, is now live in 11 states, up from three in June 2025, and expects to open Ohio and Pennsylvania before the end of the year. The expansion will put the division in 13 states less than three years after it began closing transactions.

Clever Closings places licensed local branch managers in every market, several with more than two decades of experience in their state, while intake, processing, and post-closing run centrally on one national platform. Every party to a transaction gets a direct line to the person running the file and a response within two business hours. Escrow staff compensation is tied directly to client survey scores, not just the number of files closed, a structure that is rare in the title industry.

Clever Closings takes a tech-forward approach to title and escrow, running every file on a single digital platform. Agents, buyers, sellers, and loan officers see every update in real-time, without the need to call or email for updates. Documents and messages are encrypted, and clients can deposit earnest money from their phone. Built-in fraud protection verifies each party's ID against public records and screens wire instructions before any money moves.

"Title has historically been an office-heavy business, and that overhead gets passed to everyone in the transaction," said Tony Chahal, President of Agent Network and Closings at Clever Real Estate. "We built the opposite. We use AI and our digital platform to handle the document review, status updates, and wire screening that take up most of a traditional escrow officer's day, so our licensed local experts can focus on the parts of a closing that need a person. That is how we can serve any local market without opening a dozen offices."

Clever Closings currently operates in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Ohio and Pennsylvania are on track to launch this year, which will put Clever Closings in markets accounting for roughly 60% of U.S. home sales, according to Redfin data. The division is on pace to grow closed transactions nearly 70% in 2026 and has already surpassed its 2025 total.

As a result of Closings' rapid growth, Clever promoted Chahal to President of Agent Network and Closings in July 2026, where he oversees the platform's 13,000 active agents, in addition to the title and escrow business he founded in 2023. Before Clever, Chahal served as Head of Strategic Relationships at HomeLight, where he led the go-to-market strategy and a national sales organization across the company's trade-in, cash offer, and closing services businesses.

"Clever is a vertically integrated platform built to make great agents dramatically more productive," said Clever Co-Founder and CEO Luke Babich. "The average agent in this industry closes two transactions a year. Agents in our elite partner program close 21. We're aligning our organization to keep delivering tech, services like Closings, and high-quality lead flow that help great agents build a great business."

Agents at Compass, RE/MAX, Keller Williams, eXp, and Coldwell Banker have closed transactions through Clever Closings. Chahal credits the division's 90% five-star rating to hiring licensed local experts in each state rather than staffing new markets remotely. The division is recruiting escrow officers and branch managers in Ohio and Pennsylvania ahead of launch.

Learn more at: https://www.cleverclosings.com

About Clever Closings

Clever Closings is the title and escrow division of Clever Real Estate, built to give real estate agents and their clients a modern closing experience. Every party gets real-time visibility into the transaction, encrypted document handling and messaging, digital earnest money deposits, and a choice of in-person, mobile notary or remote online notarization. The platform is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified and operates under ALTA Best Practices. Clever Closings is live in 11 states, with Ohio and Pennsylvania launching in 2026.

About Clever Real Estate

Clever Real Estate allows sellers to compare top-rated discount real estate brokers and low-commission realtors in their local area. Clever's content reaches over 12 million readers annually, and its nationwide agent matching service has a 4.9-star Trustpilot rating across more than 4,500 customer reviews. Since launching in 2017, Clever has reached over $17.3 billion in real estate sold, matched over 271,000 customers with realtors, and saved consumers over $250 million on commission fees. Clever's network spans over 13,000 agents across all 50 states.

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SOURCE Clever Closings