The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) new mortgage disclosure rules take effect August 1, but the American Land Title Association (ALTA) is hoping the agency will revise the new disclosure… Read More »
Recent Posts
-
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...
-
Williston Financial Group Acquires West Coast Local Retail Title Operations from Doma
Transaction helps drive Company’s new singular strategy and refined focus...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
News
The American Land Title Association is asking the CFPB to rethink the kind of information the agency will collect for its new consumer complaint database. The millenials are coming! The… Read More »
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued proposed regulations governing drones, opening the door to some commercial uses (including those sought by real estate brokers) but leaving it closed, for… Read More »
The financial pendulum has swung again, making buying a home more affordable than renting in a majority of major housing markets for the first time in nearly a decade. That… Read More »
More than two-thirds of the 3,600 counties responsible for recording mortgage documents nationally are now able to handle that process electronically. And much of that progress has come in the… Read More »
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has slapped two financial institutions with enforcement actions and one with a civil suit for implying in ads to consumers that they had an official… Read More »
Do you have a TRID plan? That’s a plan for managing the seismic changes that will transform mortgage originations and real estate closings August 1, when the Consumer Financial Protection… Read More »
TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule As the August 1, 2015, effective date for the new TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule approaches there is a noticeable increase in the number of articles, webinars,… Read More »
To: Settlement Agents In December, Bank of America announced that it would generate and deliver the buyer/borrower Closing Disclosure when the new documents take effect on August 1, 2015. This… Read More »
Hewlett Packard security researchers reported that 44 percent of known breaches happened as a result of server misconfigurations and vulnerabilities discovered years ago. The report cites 33 percent of identified… Read More »