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The title insurance industry prepares for battle

Housing Wire

With the housing market slowing down from its pandemic-fueled frenzy, wire fraud threats, regulatory challenges and the perennial challenge of an aging workforce, the title insurance industry will have a lot to juggle in the new year. For the title insurance industry, she feels this will result in a thinning of the herd.

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Opinion: Is the time ripe for a third way to tap home equity?

Housing Wire

Homeownership is a bedrock for the American Dream, in no small part because it is also a durable, reliable long-term investment. The time-tested resiliency of home values highlights home equity’s importance to American households and its significance for residential real estate investors alike. Are home equity investments the answer?

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American Digital Title is open for business in California

Housing Wire

American Digital Title Insurance Co. , a Denver-based insurtech title insurance provider controlled by insurance giant Munich Re , has been authorized to underwrite title insurance in California, the second largest title insurance market in the country. Holding Corp. which is owned by Germany-based Munich Re.

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Make Your First Investment Property an Attractive and Profitable Option

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

How can you capitalize on your first investment property? Whether your first investment property will be a rental or a flip, your goal is to walk away with more money than you put into it. Today, Cleveland Appraisal Blog shares a few tips for first-time investors. You’ve just purchased your first property to renovate.

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White House aware of issues over investment properties

Housing Wire

The federal government is well aware that mortgage lenders and industry stakeholders are frustrated by the 7% cap on second homes and investment properties that was implemented as part of a broader series of amendments to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ‘s Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements. The revised PSPAs require that beginning Jan.

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Crisis management in real estate: 8 tips for handling difficult situations

Housing Wire

Consider the residential client disappointed at the lack of inventory , or the commercial investor with many vacancies in a once-thriving property. Legal disputes. Address other important items, including relevant contact information for support professionals, such as legal counsel, insurance providers and emergency services.

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Stone Point Capital, Insight Partners to purchase CoreLogic

Housing Wire

Stone Point and Insight Partners are highly respected investors who recognize the value and potential of CoreLogic’s digital content, solutions and market-leading platforms that power the housing economy,” CoreLogic President and CEO Frank Martell said. The investors dropped their takeover bid on Nov.

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