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Title insurance industry premiums spike $7B year over year

Housing Wire

The American Land Title Association saw a nearly 36% year-over-year increase in title insurance premium volume in 2021 for a staggering $7 billion spike, according to the trade group’s Market Share Analysis , published Friday. The title insurance industry generated $26.2 The title insurance industry generated $26.2

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5 updated predictions for the second half of the 2022 housing market

Housing Wire

However, inventory of for-sale homes for sale continued to lag in prior years, and despite posting some seasonal increase, barely offered relief for frantic home buyers. At the 2004 pre-Great Recession peak, the cash-out share of volume originations reached 17.7%.

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UNDERSTANDING THE TRUE COST OF HOMEOWNERSHIP

Will Springer Realtor

The soaring prices of insurance and energy have dealt a two-pronged blow to homeowners’ wallets, with no relief in sight. Nationwide, home insurance premiums have surged by an average of 21% year-on-year, as of May 2023, equating to an annual increase of $244 per household. Good things come to those who wait!

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Inside Redfin’s unique, brave and vulnerable business model

Housing Wire

And so, because of that, we had to make our agents independent contractors and terminate their pension plan and health insurance.”. I did a nine to five job – inventory analysis – in my mid-to-late 20’s,” said Goldberg, presently a Redfin agent in Charlotte. “It It was as boring as it sounds like.

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The Modern Health System: Where Technology and HIPAA Compliance Collide

GoForrmz

Since then privacy has been codified into multiple laws, but it wasn’t until 1996 that the Healthcare Insurance and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed in the United States setting the standard that medical practices follow to this day. ” — Connecticut General Assembly Office of Legislative Research, 2004.