Settlement services providers wondering how mortgage lenders will respond to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) Integrated Mortgage Disclosure requirements have gotten an answer from two of the largest ones. … Read More »
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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...
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The RESPA winds are blowing again and they seem to be nearing gale force. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which has replaced the Department of Housing and Urban Development… Read More »
With the widely publicized hacks of computer systems at (among others) Target, Sony and the U.S. Central Command (the latter occurring while President Obama was giving a speech describing his… Read More »
By Steven Winkler, Chief Underwriting Counsel and Secretary Williston Financial Group Title insurance coverage for access to a property is well-established but not well understood. The American Land Title… Read More »
NEW YORK Atlantis National Services Inc. has completed the audit examination required for SSAE 16 SOC1 Type 2 certification. The certification is one way title agents can demonstrate that they… Read More »
The massive winter storms that hit the East Coast and the Midwest in late January and early February made snow a four-letter word for anyone in their path. The storms… Read More »
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt insists that loans with low (3 percent) down payments, which Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will now be able to purchase, are no… Read More »
Since the economic downturn and well into the housing recovery, real estate industry executives have been blaming unduly conservative appraisals for scuttling home sales. But the gap between what owners… Read More »
President Obama covered a lot of domestic and foreign policy ground in his state-of-the-union address, but one topic was conspicuously absent: Housing. The President referred to housing policy only indirectly… Read More »
Sales of new homes rebounded smartly in December after sinking in November) for the second consecutive month) to the lowest level since July of last year. December sales by contrast,… Read More »