Stewart's primary operating unit division for international business, Stewart International, directs Stewart's global real estate information operations. Stewart has established capacity to carry out business in over 40 foreign countries and has offices in Latin America, Europe, Canada and Australia, as well as emerging markets where legally valid land entitlement systems are just beginning economic development and personal freedom. Stewart International's three main business units - Land Market Development, Land and Real Estate Information Systems, and Title, Escrow and Closing Services - each complement the other in helping Stewart reach the long-term goal of providing clear and readily transferable title to real property throughout the world.

Stewart's core belief is that social stability and increased prosperity are created when private citizens and businesses own their homes, land and buildings and have clear, transferable title to their property. Readily transferable titles facilitate inflow of private capital for mortgage banking and finance of economic development without increased central government borrowing. Mortgage loans on land and other real estate can be securitized and sold on the world money market, thus stimulating increased capital investment, commerce and savings.

Whether entering a new market or maintaining its business relationship over time, Stewart builds on more than 110 years of title and land information experience, partnering with local experts to enhance the existing land and property structure. Stewart is committed to enhancing the property and land transaction process by providing the global market with the experience and technology to enhance every aspect of land development: from privatization of former government-owned lands to the securitization of mortgages to be sold on the world money market. Stewart focuses its business model on providing the local market with the tools needed to increase the speed and security of land transactions, creating market-specific products and services: local solutions for local markets.