An estimated 47 percent of bank-owned homes nationwide are still occupied by the previous owner who was foreclosed on. Source: RealtyTrac
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WFG NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY APPOINTS DAN HASSEN AS SVP, SOUTHWEST REGIONAL MANAGER FOR ITS AGENCY DIVISION
Portland, Ore., May 9, 2024 – WFG National Title Insurance...
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Williston Financial Group Acquires West Coast Local Retail Title Operations from Doma
Transaction helps drive Company’s new singular strategy and refined focus...
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WFG NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY APPOINTS DAVID JENKINS AS SVP, NATIONAL AGENCY MANAGER AND PROMOTES TIM HOOPER TO SVP, MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL MANAGER
Portland, Ore., April 11, 2023 – WFG National Title Insurance...
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Title Industry Visionary Patrick Stone Offers Insights on How to Survive and Thrive in the Current Down Market
During the recent Q4 WFG Insights: Quarterly Economic Outlook webinar, WFG National...
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WFG Insights - 2023 Forecast: WFG's Patrick Stone Offers an Optimistic Outlook for the Second Half of the Year
There’s no question the first half of this year will...
Only 380,000 new households were created over the past 12 months compared with an historic average of 1.1 million new households annually. Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Of the 1.25 million homeowners whose trouble mortgages have been modified under the Treasury Department’s HAMP program, 27 percent have re-defaulted on their loans. Source: Treasury Department Report
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has received 207,000 consumer complaints to date, 109,000 of them related to mortgages. Source: CFPB.
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TITLE TOTALS
Title underwriters generated $3.4 billion in premiums in the third quarter of last year, a 1.4 percent increase over the $3 billion originated in the same quarter of 2012. ─… Read More »
Q: Does the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulate title insurance agents? My understanding is, it does not, and, that being the case, I don’t understand how the agency can require… Read More »
Q: What is the required timing for providing the new Integrated Disclosures to consumers? A: Lenders have to provide the new “Loan Estimate” (combining the old Good Faith Estimate and… Read More »
Q: I’ve been hearing a lot about the need to encrypt e-mails in order to prevent the disclosure of sensitive, personal information they might contain. Are title agents required to… Read More »
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In that vein
In that vein, Ragas’ report revealed rising prices for homes that have not been repaired since Katrina. The price of homes in fair and poor condition rose 40.6 percent to… Read More »
Iqaluit is located next to a river. Given all that, it would be foolish not to consider the idea of a small hydroelectric generating station on the Sylvia Grinnell River… Read More »