Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Title insurance is imperative for lenders to ensure the borrower has ownership rights to a property, but it doesn’t just protect against problems affecting title. The capital markets depend on the due diligence, transparency, and protection our industry provides to do its job. Why is a title search necessary for refinancing?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

This slows the search and underwriting processes, makes them more prone to errors and delays closings at the expense of the homebuyer. DataTrace delivers advanced real estate data and title search technology and automated examination and production solutions used by leading title and settlement service companies.

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Realty Biz

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When you’re buying a home, you’ll need a title search so that you can get title insurance. Title searches can also reassure buyers, making sure there is a smaller chance of problems with the title later on. We will take a look at the things you need to know about a title search and how it works.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2021

HousingWire spoke with Steve Greenfield, Altisource General Manager of Mortgage Real Estate Solutions, about the state of the mortgage market and how Altisource’s HomeVal solution is benefiting lenders. HousingWire: What are some due diligence and underwriting challenges loan originators face today?

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Title search and recording fees A title search reveals whether or not there are any liens against your property or conflicting ownership claims that would prevent you from selling. Title searches typically cost around $75 to $100 ; sellers and buyers customarily split this fee in Alabama.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2023

This is especially important in today’s fast-paced real estate market, where time is of the essence. What is a title in the context of real estate? In real estate, a title is a legal document that establishes ownership of a property or asset. How has technology impacted the industry?

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

“The integration creates a more secure, fully integrated portal to SoftPro 360’s automated title search and closing process,” Portner said. Tools now exist that connect data sources, enabling title reports to be quickly delivered.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2022

ATA National Title Group serves both residential and commercial clients, and provides title searches and escrow services. The firm is licensed to issue title insurance in 30 states and, thanks to partnering relationships, ATA offers title and settlement services in all 50 states.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2021

Interest rates were at an all-time low last year, which is why the housing market saw such a spike. There’s also a chance your lender will require another title search and title insurance, which would add to your costs. Mortgage rates vary. Take the pandemic, for example. Consumers took advantage of those low rates.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2023

After a few years of nothing less than an automation revolution in the title industry, market uncertainty and declining volume are now testing just how effective our efforts have been. There’s no doubt the title industry has made significant gains in streamlining over the past two years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2021

“With their industry-leading notary panel and technology platform, Signature Closers is the perfect addition to our digital capabilities, advancing our strategic vision of accelerating, securing, and simplifying the title and closing process for our customers,” said Stewart CEO Fred Eppinger. Streamline by combining services.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

Join this webinar for a discussion on changes in market demographics, suppliers and how focusing on customer experience and taking a few simple steps during the mortgage loan process can close deals 3x faster. Since 2000, TitleWave has delivered more than 6 million title search reports to over 12,000 customers, the company said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

However, as the market has slowed, PropLogix believe the percentage of title agents feeling that generating new business is their greatest challenge has increased. Townsend added: “All those people who said they don’t have someone dedicated to marketing, that is the top of that chart that is juggling too many roles.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Since 2015, ALTA has provided education through Home Closing 101, a consumer-focused website that provides information about the closing process, how they can protect their property rights, how to file a claim, and how to find a title company. Ask your title company who pays in your area and if a discount is available.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Texas-based technology company RamQuest announced its title and closing digital network — called “Closing Market” — has integrated with SearchCONNECT , an affiliate of Investors Title and National Investors Title Insurance Company , which provides search solutions in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

After years of historic growth, the housing market is beginning to normalize. While some are using the current market uncertainty as an opportunity to promote products that offer less protection under the illusion of saving consumers money, now is not the time to start embracing shortcuts to well-established processes and products.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

These innovations have helped — not hindered — title professionals offering the same, robust coverage and protection that homeowners have depended on for over a century. Some vendors push alternative title insurance products that are marketed as cheaper options. Not all innovations are created equal.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

“The organic growth that Proper Title has been able to achieve in one of the most competitive markets in the country is proof that this company does it differently and better, and this is what attracted me to this opportunity,” Hoffman said. How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2021

Qualia announced Monday a new integration with title automation company DataTrace , giving Qualia Marketplace users direct access to DataTrace products and services without leaving the platform. DataTrace provides title search and automation solutions to the title and settlement service industries.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

Marketplace, a solution that enables title and escrow professionals to discover, engage, and manage payments and reporting directly with vendors such as title search providers, notaries, release tracking providers and more.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Utilizing automated valuation models instead of full-blown appraisals or title searches in lieu of title policies makes loan production less expensive and more rapid,” according to the report. Tappable home equity is expected to decrease to a forecasted $18.1 trillion as of the fourth quarter of 2023 from an expected $19.4

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2021

The gap between appraisal and what buyers are willing to pay in one of the wildest real estate markets in modern history has created friction between agents, lenders and appraisers working under stressful conditions. How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. She recently had a deal fall apart due to appraisal.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Its solutions are customizable to help give clients an edge in today’s uncertain market. HomeVal, a Premium Title and Springhouse Valuations HELOC Hybrid solution, provides a full suite of customizable, low cost products delivering precise title search and valuation data with greater speed and ease.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

2020 and 2021 were two of the best, as well as most challenging years in the title industry as a whole given tremendous changes in the market historically low rates and an ongoing impact and uncertainty caused by COVID,” Stewart chief executive officer Fred Eppinger said during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

The ability to analyze millions of alerts that underwriters have cleared and then feed that information back into the model, is what makes AI Score one of the most sophisticated models on the market. All of our title solutions are supported by the industry’s largest geographic collection of title plants.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

In today’s low interest rate, high-volume market, lenders need a way to manage their mortgage volume while providing a consistent, high-quality customer experience. ServiceLink’s EXOS Title engine automates the title search, pulling available land records data together to create a complete property profile.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

A qualified appraiser will compare recent sales of similar local properties, market trends and conduct a visual inspection of the home’s interior and exterior to determine the property’s fair market value. Due to today’s booming housing market, the appraisal process may take anywhere from days to weeks to complete.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

However, while the title space has made tremendous strides in recent years, there is still a tremendous amount of “button mashing” being done. The challenge for title agencies or settlement services firms serving multiple or unique markets extends beyond the need to understand and stay current with the differences in those markets.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2021

We continually monitor volumes, market nuances and industry trends to ensure our products – and our staff – meet our clients’ needs. We’ve secured calendar availability from our notary panel at month-end, providing unrestricted closing capacity in many of our lenders’ top markets.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A unique convergence of “The Great Resignation” and increased retirement and attrition — at the same time that the largest segment of the American workforce ages is running headlong into what’s expected to be a competitive purchase market — will require title agencies to put more focus on their service levels.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

“I always joke that we work in an industry that literally researches the past, and because of that, sometimes, I feel like our marketing, sales, and technology live there too,” Sam Trimble, vice president of strategic growth and development at Fidelity National Financial , said. Our lives can’t go backwards,” Svoboda said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

One would be hard-pressed to find many title agencies that aren’t using some level of technology in that regard. Other complex and time-consuming tasks addressed by improved technology include title searches, document preparation, lien releases, and even the closing itself, as RON and digital closings gain adoption rapidly.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

The Hubzu Signature Seller program, which combines the use of a professional listing agent with the expanded scale of a nationwide auction marketing company to engage buyers and create competition for the property. Rental conversion, where the seller may stay in the home as a renter – no moving or life disruption.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

One would be hard-pressed to find many title agencies that aren’t using some level of technology in that regard. Other complex and time-consuming tasks addressed by improved technology include title searches, document preparation, lien releases and even the closing itself, as RON and digital closings gain adoption rapidly.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

A title check is a key workflow step that provides instant awareness on the condition of title — based on title underwriter guidelines — andvalidateskey details about the property and consumer through an easy-to-understand data result at the start of the loan origination process. That’s much too late in the process.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Prior to the advent and widespread use of title insurance, before taking title to a property, the buyer required that the title be free of any rights, interests, liens or encumbrances of others for which the buyer would be responsible for. We haven’t seen any real data based on the conversation that it is going to save money.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

For a one-time fee paid at closing, title insurance protects homeowners and lenders from defects not only discoverable in public records search but also from unknown risks such as fraud and forgery that are not revealed in a title search. Diane Tomb is chief executive officer of the American Land Title Association.

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