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FAR parent updates investors on AAG integration, business performance

Housing Wire

Business update and market share The company announced the availability of the update in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Company has substantially completed its exit from all non-core businesses at the end of Q1’24.”

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Opinion: Title insurance is vital to protecting the American dream

Housing Wire

As someone who spent a career in the title insurance industry – both as a builder of a title business and leader of the industry’s trade group, — I am proud of the role we play in helping to protect what most Americans consider the biggest purchase of their lives. Why is a title search necessary for refinancing?

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Candescent Capital Ventures Taps Adam Johnston as SVP, Chief Program Management and Valuation Officer

Appraisal Buzz

Over the past 20 years, he has served in key leadership roles in mortgage banking, private mortgage insurance, and appraisal management. He has led complex business projects and integrations for mergers and acquisitions. Johnston is an experienced industry veteran.

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Attracting More Appraisal Business

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

Most appraisers are experiencing a significant slowdown in mortgage lending work due to rapidly increasing mortgage rates which are slowing down the housing market. I have seen a slowdown in my lending work also. Half my work is non-lending work, and that’s been a blessing. Isn’t this just good business practice anyway?

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The “Big Four” take on the upstarts in title insurance

Housing Wire

Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for next year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. share of the market controlled by small, independent title insurance companies.

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University Bank adds four reverse mortgage veterans to its HECM division

Housing Wire

Both Droge and Olmos come to University Bank from Open Mortgage , which shuttered its own top 10 reverse mortgage lending division late last year. Sue Haviland has also joined the division as a loan officer, coming off of a roughly three-year stint as Finance of America Reverse (FAR)’s national sales trainer in learning and development.

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FHA removes mandatory mortgage branch registration requirement

Housing Wire

It wants smaller loan originators, credit unions and others “to offer FHA-insured loan products in branch offices that they did not previously register due to business volume considerations, thus expanding the availability of FHA programs to underserved communities,” the notice said.

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