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Biden tax credit to rehab homes is finally unveiled

Housing Wire

How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. Why use several vendors for title searches, appraisals and underwriting when you can use one? The tax credit would cover the difference between total development costs — including acquisition, rehabilitation, demolition and construction — and the sales price.

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Opinion: What you need to know for a successful real estate transaction

Housing Wire

Buyers, sellers and lenders all have a stake in the sale, and title and escrow ensure that everyone’s interests are protected. They also help to prevent fraud and ensure that the sale is conducted legally and ethically. Another benefit of title and escrow is that they streamline the real estate transaction process.

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DataTrace’s TitleIQ leverages automation to reduce human error and further streamline processes

Housing Wire

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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Qualia courts proptech firms with title, escrow offering

Housing Wire

Why use several vendors for title searches, appraisals and underwriting when you can use one? Qualia announced in December that it had acquired a rival in the title and escrow software space: Adeptive Software , the creator of ResWare production software for title and escrow professionals (the sale price was not disclosed).

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Title Search: Your Ticket to Finding Liens on Your Property

HomeLight

Open liens could affect your home sale because a new owner would become responsible for the property debt if you transfer title without clearing the lien. Also, a title insurance company will exclude coverage for any liens that cloud, or negatively affect, the property’s title. How a professional title search works.

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How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency

Housing Wire

HomeVal delivers those solutions with precise title search, valuation data and current property photographs from one convenient source in a single detailed report. Also, the limited number of homes for sale currently could mean home values remain high, which will increase equity for most homeowners. It’s easy to see why.

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As title insurance volume shrinks, workers take on more tasks

Housing Wire

According to PropLogix, the most common tasks outsourced are municipal lean searches, title searches, tax reports, judgement searches, UCC searches and HOA research. All those small businesses, they are doing a little bit of everything,” Tomb said.

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