Pictured: President and CEO Craig Haskins and Chairman Jeff Green
The Knight Barry Title Group is a trade name for several title insurance agencies operating in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Florida and Texas under the names:
Knight Barry Title, Inc.
Knight Barry Title Advantage LLC
Knight Barry Title Services LLC
Knight Barry Title Solutions, Inc.
Knight Barry Title United LLC
Community Title Services LLC
Essential Title LLC
Focus Title LLC
Founders Title LLC
Impact Title, LLC DBA Connect Title LLC
Porter Title LLC
Premier Closing Services LLC
Stellar Title Services LLC
Sterling Title LLC
Superior Title LLC
Venture Title LLC
Wisconsin Title Group LLC
The history of Knight Barry Title began in April 1836 when the pioneering Albert G. Knight arrived in Racine, Wisconsin. On December 29th of that year the area became known as Racine County. Soon after that Albert became the County Clerk, the County Treasurer and in 1854 formed a company dealing with title abstracts. Knight’s company was responsible for storing the original plat maps of Racine County in a brick vault in his office next to the County Courthouse. When the Courthouse burned down January 24, 1861, Knight's records were used to restore the court's records. Now over 168 years later, Knight Barry Title still provides random missing documents to the County when needed. Since that auspicious beginning, the company remained in the hands of leaders including a Register of Deeds, County Clerk, Treasurer, Assessor and Under Sheriff.
In 1979, Jeffrey B. Green purchased the company (then known as Knight-Barry Abstract Company) from the Patrick and Foldy families and renamed it Knight Barry Title. In 1994 Jeff expanded the company beyond Racine County and opened an office in the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin. The company focused on the Racine and Kenosha markets for many years until Jeff hired his step-son Craig Haskins after his graduation from the University of Florida.
Together Jeff and Craig began an aggressive expansion plan for the company to capitalize on the technological advances Knight Barry Title created in the early 2000’s when the internet became the main distribution method for data and information to lenders. Craig created a proprietary software system called The Q, which today contains millions of lines of code and is maintained by an in-house software development department. It would be a decade more until the company’s competitors offered such services.
During that time, Knight Barry Title looked to grow quickly. Its first acquisition was of Port Abstract & Title in Port Washington, Wisconsin in 2001. More than 20 years later and over a dozen Wisconsin acquisitions under their belts, Craig and Jeff focused on other states - namely Minnesota - and have acquired several companies there. Soon after beginning its expansion into Minnesota, the focus turned to Florida and in early 2019 Knight Barry Title acquired two agents in the Florida panhandle. By now you will find our offices in more than a dozen different Florida towns. In mid-2020 in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, Knight Barry Title found its way to Houston Texas and opened its first office there.
To this day the company analyzes 10-15 agency acquisitions per year and is always looking for that next great opportunity.
Today, the Knight Barry Title Group has over 80 offices in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Florida with more than 400 experienced title, closing, and escrow professionals making it one of the largest title agencies in the US.
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