Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Title Leader. Title Leader is designed specifically for default services law firms, whether you have a captive title company or not. We’re a workflow automation platform AND a national title search vendor. Eliminates hundreds of wasted hours for each paralegal that handles title searches. Get More Info.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Unlike site-built homes, which are always titled as real estate, over 40% of manufactured housing is titled as personal property (the same way a car is titled). To date, Title I programs have been grossly underutilized , due largely to outdated program requirements and guidelines.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Department of Homeland Security and title insurance company Charter Title. In 2017, Cunningham, de Jong and three others founded Sales Boomerang, an automated borrower intelligence and retention system for the mortgage industry. Cunningham brings more than 20 years of experience, including stints at the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As an organization dedicated to protecting property rights, the American Land Title Association (ALTA) wants to help ensure laws do not discriminate against or prevent people from legally purchasing real estate. Laws should also be clear on the role title insurance professionals play in facilitating transactions with foreign owners.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

CoreLogic has debuted a new security solution for multiple listing services designed to reduce the risk of cybersecurity threats. Recent cybersecurity incidents in the industry underscore the vulnerability to cyber threats. In late 2023, title insurance companies First American and Fidelity National Financial suffered cyberattacks.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Mortgage Industry Standard Maintenance Organization (MISMO) announced last week that the organization is looking for participants for an initiative focused on standardizing pre-closing title document data sets. These documents are required nationwide and title and real estate agents have access to standard templates from ALTA.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

Stavvy , a fintech company specializing in digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate companies, announced on Wednesday a new partnership with WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG) to provide the company and its customers with eClosing technology solutions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

These workflows help title and settlement companies track how data and decisions flow from initiation to outcome. When investing in a technology that someone else designed to automate workflows, it’s important to ask — how do I make this workflow work for me?

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

CHLA commends FHA for its work on its “Mythbusters” initiative, designed to blow up the myths around FHA loans by educating lenders and home sellers. CHLA has also applauded FHFA Director Thompson for FHFA’s work in championing lower cost alternatives to title insurance, such as using attorney opinion letters.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This move comes after a year of change for the title industry. We have designed our RON strategy to be simple and open, so that our partners have the flexibility to choose from an ecosystem of trusted partners to get their deals done.” eOriginal announced the release of its new ClosingCenter 2.3,

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Northern Virginia and Maryland (DMV) area, Baltimore, Fairfield County Connecticut and Seattle, title insurance companies are now required by law to file reports identifying individuals who made all-cash real estate purchases exceeding $300,000 through shell companies in the Texas cities of Houston and Laredo.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Click here to nominate an industry insider — a client, colleague, boss or friend — it can even be you! For eight years, HousingWire’s Insiders award has been recognizing the high-achieving industry pros whose roles require them to work behind the scenes while making a major impact within their organizations.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

CHLA commends FHA for its work on its “Mythbusters” initiative, designed to blow up the myths around FHA loans by educating lenders and home sellers. CHLA has also applauded FHFA Director Thompson for FHFA’s work in championing lower-cost alternatives to title insurance, such as using attorney opinion letters.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The GTOs require title companies to identify the people behind shell companies used in all-cash purchases of residential real estate. Our real estate market is a relatively stable store of value, and it can be opaque, and there are gaps in industry regulation,” Andrea Gacki, FinCEN’s director, said in early October.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

From leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence (AI) and digital marketing to mastering financial literacy, mortgage and real estate professionals have come together to provide these skills to loan officers in a new book titled, “Rethink Everything: You ‘Know’ About Being A Next-Gen Loan Officer.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The American Land Title Association announced the promotion of Vice President Kelly Romeo to senior vice president and the newly created role of chief information officer. Romeo also will continue to oversee the education department, NTP Designation program, legal publications and the ALTA Registry.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Most digital solutions in the lending industry are designed to solve one problem and built for one audience in mind. And since Stavvy is designed for the title agent workflow, closing agents can easily integrate the platform into the way they already work. For lenders, Stavvy features full vendor title compliance.

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Open Title Texas is proud to announce its entry into the Texas real estate market. Backed by a legacy of service excellence, Open Title Texas offers a comprehensive suite of solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of real estate brokers, sales professionals, and consumers alike.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The integration also aims to tackle the payment procedure during a real estate closing, in which several parties receive payments through sources like broker/agent commissions, underwriter fees, title search fees, taxes, payoffs and seller proceeds.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

The goal is to quip key stakeholders and decision-makers in the housing industry with the knowledge necessary for preventing bias and enhancing the quality and integrity of real estate appraisals. “Our team is spearheading the transformation of the appraisal industry through education and technology, propelling it into the 21st century.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

NTC offers a paid-in-full suite of services, including lien release, borrower mailings, collateral file management and title curative, plus a self-service platform, PerfectDocs. NTC completed the work on time and maintained a 99% compliance rate with MERS and associated data while reviewing each document for accuracy before execution.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

Serhant’s new brokerage is designed to break the traditional model, with divisions focused on media, branding and technology to reach consumers in a new way. 4 will kick off two days of expert insight and networking around All Things Housing for professionals in mortgage, real estate, appraisals, title and more.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

With the goal of highlighting the critical role that marketers play, HousingWire’s Marketing Leaders award spotlights the industry’s highest-achieving marketing execs who are driving their businesses to adopt more innovative, data-driven, and customer-centric approaches to stay competitive in today’s landscape.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Below are a few lessons title agents can take from previous down cycles that could help them adapt to current market conditions. It’s been a while since the settlement services industry faced such a competitive market. It’s not surprising because title agents are almost forced to act on a day-to-day— or even hour-to-hour— basis.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2021

Like every industry, the real estate profession grappled with doing business during the pandemic – not just for the sake of doing business, but for the unnerved consumers trying to navigate the home-buying process during an alarming present and an uncertain future. Title is the key to unlocking the transaction slowdown.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

With various headwinds working against the mortgage industry, Candor is in a position of optimizing personnel levels, Showalter explained. The firm’s automated underwriting tech is designed to augment human underwriters’ capabilities, allowing underwriters to handle more loans. In August 2021, Candor raised $12.5

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

Volatile mortgage rates and economic uncertainty have rocked the housing market this year, challenging mortgage lenders, real estate agents, title companies and appraisal firms to adapt quickly to changing conditions. That’s why we’ve designed our HW Annual event Oct. Register here. The post Why you should attend HW Annual Oct.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Accurate Group is one of the two companies under the approved service providers for Fannie Mae’s Value Acceptance + Property Data that also offers title and closing solutions along with valuation services , said Paul Doman, president and CEO of Accurate Group.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

Stewart is one of the largest global title insurance companies and underwriters in the industry. Our vision is to be the premier title services company ,” said Beth Fowler, EVP of Lender Services at Stewart. Our vision is to be the premier title services company ,” said Beth Fowler, EVP of Lender Services at Stewart. “To

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The most likely outcomes include: Lenders: Fewer than 50 mortgage lenders will transition to a federated model that enforces the controls necessary for secure cross-industry interoperability. Title: Title may be best positioned to implement the “trust model” that defines the responsibilities of all parties to a complex transaction.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

Remote Online Notarization is a hot topic in the real estate title industry for good reason. While the pandemic thrust RON into the mainstream of the industry, many are still wondering how the technology can benefit them and the closing process going forward. In our industry, that often means home closing documents.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s why they’ve introduced the homegenius Platform, an integrated solution consisting of advanced technology , data science, machine learning and AI designed to drive value and bring ease to consumers through the home buying and selling journey. The process of finding, buying and owning a home today is disjointed, antiquated and messy.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

At First American, we focus on building internally where we think we have the right to win: digitizing and automating settlement, the search and examination process, and title decisions. RON is a great example: Only 15-20% of RON happens in real estate — everything else is in other industries. Everything else we look to partner.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But what about what’s next for the housing industry? Unlike asking a Magic 8 Ball about the future and crossing your fingers that you get the answer you want, this December/January issue was designed to give as much clarity and insight as possible around what to expect in housing in 2022, so you can enter the next year ready to compete.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Through their visionary leadership, they have propelled the industry forward, driving change, fostering inclusivity and taking the reigns as female executives in a traditionally male industry. The following list of honorees comprises many more examples of exceptional leadership from some of the industry’s most accomplished women.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

That’s where reverse purchase financing comes into play, the funding option specifically designed for older Americans. They own the home with their name on the title, as with any mortgage, traditional or reverse. 6 “The truth is the real estate industry hasn’t really needed to learn about this financing option over the past decade.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Kosta Ligris, CEO and co-founder of Stavvy, about how the mortgage tech journey has expanded beyond eClosings and is reaching all corners of the mortgage industry, from appraisal and valuation to internal workflows and processes. . This is true for the application and process of a mortgage as well.

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