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Westcor launches investor services division
Posted Date: Sunday, March 27, 2016
Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. launched a new division specializing in investor services. It will deliver an end-to-end suite of products and services for institutional clients in the whole loan and single family rental markets. Keep reading to learn more.
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Title underwriters report financially stable results in 2015
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Demotech Inc.’s Senior Financial Analysts Douglas Powell and Paul Osborne provided an exclusive analysis to The Title Report regarding the performance of underwriters in the title insurance industry. They noted industry has experienced significant underwriter consolidation, but have remained vigilant in achieving overall profitability. Keep reading to learn more of their insights.
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U.S. title insurance industry 2015 GAAP financial results
Posted Date: Monday, March 14, 2016
Fitch Ratings today has released its 2015 review of the U.S. Title Insurance Industry in a special report titled 'U.S. Title Insurance Industry 2015 GAAP Financial Results'.Fitch anticipates revenues to be flat to slightly negative in 2016.
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Kensington Vanguard acquires Property Title Group
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Kensington Vanguard National Land Services, an independent full-service national title insurance and settlement agency, continued to expand its national platform with the acquisition of a controlling interest in Property Title Group LLC, a New Jersey-based title insurance provider. Keep reading to learn more.
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Company launches title services division
Posted Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016
A company with more than 60 years in the real estate industry announced that it would create a specialized title industry services group. The division will provide services such as risk management, cybersecurity planning, business valuations and more to the title industry. Read on for the details.
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EPIC bought by MCS to expand service offerings
Posted Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016
EPIC Real Estate Solutions has been bought by Mortgage Contracting Services (MCS) to help expand the services offerings to MCS clients. Read on for more details of the acquisition.
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Realogy subsidiary buys Phoenix firm
Posted Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016
Property Frameworks, a subsidiary of Realogy Holdings, said that it has acquired Southwest Realty & Property Management, a property management firm in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Realogy is the parent company of a variety of real estate companies, including Title Resource Group, which has more than 50 brands, 340 branches and 1,800 employees to handle title and settlement transactions. Read on for details.
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Proper Title opens new headquarters
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Proper Title, LLC expanded its Chicago office and opened a new headquarters in Palatine, Ill. This expansion is in response to the firm’s exponential growth. Keep reading to learn more.
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Title Alliance partners with RE/MAX Professionals
Posted Date: Sunday, March 13, 2016
Title Alliance continues its western growth by teaming up with RE/MAX Professionals, an affiliate of the international RE/MAX network. Title Alliance CEO Jim Campbell said he is confident that they will help to lead Title Alliance to milestones far beyond his projections. Keep reading to learn more.
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Ernst, eLynx link system for better closings
Posted Date: Sunday, March 13, 2016
Ernst Publishing Co. and eLynx have linked their software to enable lenders and settlement agents to close mortgage loans more accurately, quickly and compliantly, according to their announcement. Ernst Publishing President and CEO Gregory Teal said this is a perfect fit for both companies and delivers benefits to all customers. Read on to learn more.
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AmeriNotary offers a new platform
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016
AmeriNotary announced a new platform to deliver assignments directly from title companies to notary loan signing agents. That platform made its debut March 15. Read on to learn more.
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Premium Title integrates with Mortgage Builder
Posted Date: Sunday, March 13, 2016
Premium Title announced an integration with Mortgage Builder. It provides customers with the ability to share data and documents, auto-populate title fees on a Loan Estimate and place a title order directly from within the Mortgage Builder LOS. Keep reading to learn more.
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Kensington adds senior EVP to the fold
Posted Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016
Kensington Vanguard National Land Services has added a senior executive vice president to its Business Development Division. The new hire brings more than a decade of title insurance experience with two of the nation’s largest underwriters. Read on for more details.
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Two counties join CSC eRecording platform
Posted Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016
Two new counties in Oregon and Wisconsin are eRecording through Corporation Service Co., the company announced. Read on to find out more about the counties.
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Coast Title Insurance Agency grows team
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Coast Title added a title insurance agent to the team. Owner and President Sandra McDermott said she brings excellent customer services skills. Read on to learn more.
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Stewart hires district manager
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Stewart Title named a new district manager for the new Southeast States District. He will be responsible for agency operations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina. Keep reading to learn more.
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Survey: Agents were ready, trained for TRID
Posted Date: Sunday, March 13, 2016
Five months into the implementation of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule, a new survey of nearly 10,000 agents shows that nearly all report that they were ready Oct. 3, although most view the TRID process so far as negative or very negative. Read on for details and insight from the leader of the company which conducted the survey.
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CoreLogic: More than 90 percent of borrowers have equity in homes
Posted Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016
CoreLogic announced that its latest look at the market at the end of 2015 showed that more than 91 percent of all properties with a mortgage had some equity. How much equity do they have, and what does that mean for the potential of the refi market in 2016? Read on for the details.
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National foreclosure inventory down, CoreLogic says
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
CoreLogic released its January 2016 National Foreclosure Report, showing the foreclosure inventory declined by 21.7 percent. The number of completed foreclosures in January 2016 was down 67.6 percent from the peak in September 2010. Read on to learn more.
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RealtyTrac says home flipping up slightly in 2015
Posted Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016
RealtyTrac’s Home Flipping Report showed that nationwide, home flipping rose slightly in 2015 from a year earlier. It was the first annual increase in home flipping after four consecutive years of declines, the report stated. Read on for more details.
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Ten-X lists winter’s hottest housing markets
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Ten-X released its Top Single-Family Housing Markets Report for winter. It ranks the nation’s 50 largest housing markets according to current and forecasted housing fundamentals. Keep reading to learn more.
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Three partner to offer single-source compliance solution
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016
PYA, Real Estate Data Shield and Security Compliance Associates have come together to offer the title and settlement industry a single-source compliance solution, Certification+. It is designed to satisfy regulatory and compliance requirements set forth in ALTA Best Practices and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA.) Read on to learn more.
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Survey: Industry making strides on TRID, work to be done
Posted Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016
For the first time since Oct. 3, a survey detailing the effects of implementation of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule studied homebuyers who had gone through the mortgage lending process before and after the new forms were in place. What the ClosingCorp Home Buyers Study found was showed positive signs, such as buyers finding the new forms easier to understand and being able to save money by shopping for settlement services providers. However, challenges remain. See what ClosingCorp CEO Brian Benson told The Title Report about the findings.
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Live coverage: Checking in from Indianapolis
Posted Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016
The Title Report is on site in Indianapolis this week for the American Land Title Association Business Strategies Conference. Read on for a glimpse from the show and some of the topics we’ll be featuring soon.
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CFPB webinar to answer industry’s TRID questions
Posted Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016
Six months after the implementation of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced it will conduct a webinar to address questions about TRID. Read on for details.
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MBA data shows applications up, margins down
Posted Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016
New data from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows that mortgage applications for new homes increased in February from a year earlier, but a separate report shows that independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks saw their net gains on originations drop 60 percent in the fourth quarter after the implementation of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule. Read on for the details.
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Cordray: TRID enforcement ‘remains open-ended’
Posted Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray told the House Financial Services Committee that the bureau’s enforcement of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule remains open-ended. He also discussed the potential for future enforcement action and written guidance on the rule. Read on for the details.
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PLS now offering permit resolutions
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Professional Lien Search (PLS), a property research company, has branched into the permit resolution service. It’s a solution aimed at keeping the closing process smooth and on track, according to the company’s announcement.
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