Question

In some parts of the country, the buyer and the seller never meet at closing; the paperwork is handled by an escrow agent in a process called

Answer 1

Closing escrow

Step-by-step explanation:

Closing escrow refers to completing the sale and transfering the ownership from the seller to the buyer in a process in which a third party that would be the escrow agent maintains the papers and the money until the operation is closed. According to this, the answer is that in some parts of the country, the buyer and the seller never meet at closing; the paperwork is handled by an escrow agent in a process called closing escrow because the escrow agent keeps the funds and the paperwork until the transaction is complete and because of that the buyer and the seller don't need to meet at closing.