Title Insurers Staff Down 11.4%

Title Insurance business is improving slowly, adding 1,000 [...]

New York Looks at State Run Title Insurer

Is it the End of the World as We Know It? New York is considering a state run “Title Guarantee Department” that would appoint directors who in turn would appoint and hire “officers and agents as it may require,” according to PRNewswire.com

In response, a new lobbying group has taken the initiative to attempt to stop [...]

Title Companies Have Private Information, Is it sage

Companies that deal with sensitive information, such as Title Insurance Companies have need to take particular attention to the new social media, especially with the use of confidential information being sent via I-Phones and Blackberries.

According to Darity Wesley of Privacy Gurus, here are some guidelines in that regard.

The skill that is absolutely essential to [...]

Tri-Star Title Agency Owner sentenced

Roseann Wagner, 45, of Prior Lake, Minnesota was sentenced  in federal court for stealing more than $470,000  for payment of title insurance premiums and recording fees.  Wagner, a licensed insurance agent, owned and operated Tri-Star Title, a title insurance agency. The investigation also found that Wagner had withdrawn nearly $100,000 from ATMs and cashiers at a [...]

Title Insurance Around the Country

Today’s news for the Title Insurance Industry is not good, reading like a bad novel… In Georgia [...]

FHA Opens New Foreclosure Rules

A great article from Preservation Monthly. The FHA is opening a one year program to help stabilize neighborhoods struck with foreclosure. The program, available February 1st, 2010 will allow access to FHA insurance much faster.

In today’s market, FHA research finds that acquiring, rehabilitating and the reselling these properties to prospective homeowners often takes [...]