Chicago-based Proper Title, LLC has launched its national commercial services division with the promotion of Charity Murow from senior underwriting counsel to director of underwriting and compliance and the addition of Cullen Marshall as national commercial underwriting counsel and Dolores Saavedra as senior national construction escrow manager.
In addition to providing title insurance and underwriting for commercial real estate transactions nationally, Proper Title has an in-house construction escrow team that manages the distribution of funds on construction projects.
Murow will lead the underwriting charge of the newly formed division, which officially launched in January 2024, following Proper Title’s biggest year ever for commercial real estate transactions.
In 2023, the title insurance agency closed more than 80 national commercial real estate deals, but with the addition of Marshall and Saavedra, the team could see that number easily reach triple digits.
One of the new hires to Proper Title’s National Commercial Services team is Cullen Marshall who joined the firm in January as national commercial underwriting counsel. Marshall most recently served as vice president and regional underwriting counsel for Title Resources Guaranty Company in St. Louis, where he was the lead underwriting contact for title agents across a multi-state division. Prior to that, he served as vice president and division underwriting counsel for Old Republic National Title Insurance Company in St. Louis.
A licensed attorney in Illinois and Missouri, Marshall began his career a decade ago as a junior associate attorney for Kodner, Watkins & Kloecker, LC, where he assisted senior attorneys with corporate entity formations, real estate closings, settlement negations and foreclosure proceedings.
A 23-year veteran of construction escrow, Dolores Saavedra also joined Proper Title in January as senior national construction escrow manager. Most recently, she was vice president – construction escrow manager at Near North Title Group in Chicago. Prior to that, she spent 18 years at First American Title Insurance Co. in Chicago as a senior construction escrow officer.
