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Owner's Title Insurance
An owner's policy issued at the time of the purchase of the property shall be based on the full consideration, including the aggregate unpaid principal sum of any mortgage(s) or other liens, claims, taxes and any other municipal charge not being paid, and any amount in excess of the full consideration the purchaser may request. In a transaction involving the sale of real estate, an owner's policy must be issued unless the new owner has waived, in writing, the purchase of an owner's policy in accordance with 31 Pa. Code 126.1.

Where an owner desires that an owner's policy be issued after acquisition of title, the rate shall be based upon any amount the owner may request but not less than the present fair market value of the property as of the time the owner's policy is issued.

Issuance of an Owner's Policy After Acquisition of a Property by a Lender
When the lender insured under a loan policy acquires title to the land by foreclosure or by voluntary conveyance in extinguishment of the debt and requests owner's title insurance, such lender may be issued an owner's policy and the applicable Charge shall be based upon the fair market value of the property at the time the owner's policy is issued.

Reissue Rate
A purchaser of a title insurance policy shall be entitled to purchase this coverage at the reissue rate if the real property to be insured is identical to or is part of real property insured 10 ears immediately prior to the date the insured transaction closes when evidence of the earlier policy is produced notwithstanding the amount of the coverage provided by the prior policy.

The provisions of this section are not applicable to the Approved Attorney Procedure.

Subdivision or Condominium Regimes
When title insurance has been issued to an operative builder and within 10 years of the issuance of the title insurance policy, the operative builder sells completed units out of the subdivision, planned unit development, cooperative or condominium, the Charge shall be 90% of the reissue rate when evidence of the earlier issued policy is produced. For the purpose of this Section, an "operative builder" shall mean one who assembles and sells:

(a)  group of at least five units on a single tract or series of contiguous tracts;

(b)  or a group of at least five units developed pursuant to the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act or pursuant to a cooperative regime.

Refinance and Substitution Loans
When a refinance or substitution loan is made within 3 years from the date of closing of a previously insured mortgage or fee interest and the premises to be insured are identical to or part of the real property previously insured and there has been no change in the fee simple ownership, the Charge shall be 80% of the reissue rate.

The provisions of this Section are not applicable to the Approved Attorney Procedure.

Permanent Loan Following a Construction Loan
When a policy has been issued on a construction loan mortgage, and within 6 months from completion of the building, the same mortgagor executes a new mortgage, the Charge shall be 50% of the reissue rate provided that the new policy is being issued by the same Insurer which issued the previous construction loan policy.

The provisions of this Section are not applicable to the Approved Attorney Procedure.

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