Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

By contrast, many European countries have a centralized, government-managed land registration system, which requires government review before property transfers are effective. Once the parties have closed, it is only then that we place the transfer document (deed) in the government land records. Nor are the land records authoritative.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2025

Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. “ALTA and the title industry continue to develop innovative solutions using title insurance that support housing affordability and expand access to homeownership while protecting the places people call home,” said Chris Morton, CEO of the American Land Title Association (ALTA).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

in land use change, 0.8% in builder/developer land, 4% in recent build and 1.1% Places poised for growth but not at the top of the list include Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Madison and Milwaukee Wisconsin, which have all seen recent land use changes. Lakeland measured 4.6% in new construction, 7.2% in recent permits.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

This bodes well for those hoping to see a soft landing, and for those hoping for lower mortgage rates. The Fed can live with 3% wage growth and 1% productivity growth, and now that wage growth is slowly moving under 4%, they will feel more like pilots who can land the plane. High school graduate and no college: 4.1%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

His research focuses on housing production and land usage at the local level. Salim Furth joins Simonsen to share his expert opinions on the current housing crisis and the various factors that impact new development in certain cities. The conversation begins with a question on housing policies and their effects on certain areas in California.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-guaranteed loan eligibility for the descendants of certain veterans; the creation of incentives for local governments to “eliminate unnecessary land use restrictions;” and limits to the role of private equity in the housing space.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

In sum, our analysis shows Fannie Maes title insurance pilot will have a profound and long- lasting impact on closing costs, potentially eliminating a barrier that prevents many homeowners from pursuing a refinance or other financially beneficial transaction. It is clear this program should continue and expand, a summary of the study states.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

San Francisco-based private lender Kiavi announced on Thursday that it has secured $300 million in capital after another securitization of its residential transition loans (RTLs). As the 21st transaction made under the company’s LHOME Mortgage Trust, Kiavi’s total volume of notes offered sits at $5.8 billion since 2019.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

Another year of slow home sales resulted in a further decline in title insurance premium volume, according to the American Land Title Association (ALTA)’s Market Share Analysis report released Thursday. The other top 10 companies for Q3 2024 were Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. In 2024, the title industry generated $16.2

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2025

Century 21 Real Estate is expanding its footprint in northeastern North Carolina through the affiliation of Carolina Land and Home Realty — a full-service brokerage based in Ahoskie. The office will now operate as Century 21 Land and Home Realty.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2025

The American Land Title Association ( ALTA ) has announced three internal promotions as part of a broader effort to strengthen leadership and advocacy across the title insurance industry. Elizabeth Blosser Elizabeth Blosser has been named as chief strategy, communications and innovation officer.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Why listing scams are on the rise Unlike home sales, land transactions often skip in-person meetings or property access, which makes it easier for scammers to impersonate legitimate owners without detection. Watch for these red flags Repeated use of the same property Scammers often recycle the same land listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

The American Land Title Association (ALTA) Homeowners Policy available in some states and for certain residential properties may offer some coverage for post-closing issues like forgery or impersonation. Dovidio noted that standard title insurance policies typically only cover issues that arise before a sale is finalized.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mortgage banking executive and industry mergers & acquisitions advisor Rick Roque has taken a new executive position at NFM Lending. Roque will lead NFM’s retail growth strategy as corporate vice president of retail, NFM’s Managing Director Greg Sher announced on LinkedIn on Friday.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In a post on X, the governor said that taxing land/property “is the more oppressive and ineffective” form of taxation. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that he wants to eliminate property taxes in the state. “Property taxes are local, not state.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For homebuyers, the good news is that the median sale price continues to fall, with Novembers figure landing at $406,100. The growth also bucks the historic trend of sales dropping between October and November. While thats a 4.7% year-over-year increase, its the fifth consecutive month of declines from the 2024 peak of $426,900 in June.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The grant funds will be primarily deployed to bolster infrastructure, construction or renovation of community buildings, housing rehabilitation, land acquisition and economic development for the American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday announced the disbursement of $72.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In its race against other brokerages to add agents, eXp Realty has scored big in California. Prime Real Estate Team is leaving the white-label brokerage Side and taking its 21 agents to eXp. Led by the wife-and-husband team of Angelica Galeana Yost and Robert Yost, the team serves the Sacramento and Folsom areas of Northern California.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Landing page open house sign-in tools A dedicated landing page for sign-ins provides a branded, customizable way to collect guest information. They specialize in real estate sites that make creating a professional landing page for open house sign-ins easy, helping you capture leads and showcase your brand. Visit Real Geeks 4.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 1925, the state Legislature passed the New Hampshire Zoning Enabling Act , which gave municipalities the right to zone their own land. That is a lot of land, and it is a significant contributor to the cost of building new housing, said Bob Quinn, CEO of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors (NHAR).

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2025

Houston , which has fewer land-use regulations than most cities, ranked first in both permits and sales of newly built homes at 11,047 and 1,314, respectively. The Big Apple has notoriously strict land-use restrictions that critics say stymie efforts to build more housing that the city desperately needs.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Active listings landed at 212,437 at the end of January, a staggering 19.4% According to a report from Redfin, for-sale inventory at the end of January in Florida was up 22.7% year over year. At 172,209 homes, its the highest reading of any month dating to when Redfin started keeping records in 2012. year-over-year jump.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2025

The initiative also encourages the consideration of underutilized federal land for residential use. .” The Let America Build campaign advocates for the elimination of regulatory barriers and modernized zoning and permitting laws to speed up or allow housing development.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

is the only scrap that landed. Most of the value of your house is actually in the land, Myers said. When house prices are inflated, it’s not that the construction cost is inflated the land underneath the house has gone way up. Well, now that the land’s been ruined, that portion of your land value is affected.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2025

Conventional marketing is on life support; bloated email blasts, generic landing pages, lead forms no one fills out. They’re not just outdated. They’re invisible to the modern consumer. Today, people crave relevance, not reach. They want conversations, not campaigns. That’s where conversational marketing steps in.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

One of the things that we’ve been intrigued by is a way for people who have had their home burned down, and perhaps they can’t recover through insurance , is using some of the land-use reform laws in California to be able to think about rebuilding their land differently, he said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A lower Fed funds rate can assist with land purchases and apartment construction, but that process would take considerable time before we see any development. But the market has only been able to maintain the low 6% rate for short time periods. If we want to see significant growth in housing starts, we need to hold that level for longer.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Diane Tomb is CEO of the American Land Title Association. From putting a warning on an email signature to working with government agencies to identify those committing fraud, real estate professionals can protect consumers, and their hard-earned savings, from bad actors. To contact the editor responsible for this piece: zeb@hwmedia.com

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As short-term interest rates decrease, some lending opportunities, such as land purchases and apartment financing, are improving. It’s important to note that remodeling workers comprise a significant portion of the residential construction workforce. However, housing starts have declined for some time, as shown in the chart below.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

Please reach out to our guest experience team at reservations@avantstay.com and we will do our best to find you a landing spot. Airbnb is helping to connect survivors and first responders with emergency housing through a local nonprofit, 211LA.

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Real Estate News

MAY 12, 2025

Steve Capezza will lead growth and M&A strategy at the brokerage giant to solidify and strengthen its position as the leading player in real estate today.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

The concept of the neighborhood center would be a new land-use designation that would bolster the zoning capacity of commercial centers, adding more residents to areas with existing businesses and amenities. He is also looking to create 30 neighborhood centers that could allow for the construction of five-story apartment complexes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Lindsay Brugger, vice president of urban resilience at the Urban Land Institute , said that as LA moves forward to rebuild, the region is unfortunately already struggling to provide affordable and attainable housing. She’s moving in this weekend, Peranio said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

Since mid-February, over 80 listings for burned lots in Pacific Palisades and Altadena have appeared on the market following the devastating Los Angeles wildfires that took place in January, with land parcels fetching prices exceeding initial expectations. Anecdotally, I have heard that lots are selling quickly at the premium, she said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

RealTrends excludes transactions such as commercial, rentals, lease, land, empty lots, and outside referred business from published totals. The RealTrends Verified City Rankings are based on the agent’s and team’s physical location, as submitted to RealTrends in the submission application.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

The Neal & Neal Team handles a wide range of residential real estate, from rural land to high-end homes. Their commitment to culture, scalability, and agent success aligns perfectly with what were building at eXp.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

The American Land Title Association (ALTA) noted that title insurance companies were already exempt from the BOI reporting requirement due to the rules exemption for state-licensed insurance producers. FinCEN began accepting BOI reports from new and existing companies in January 2024.

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