Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

This bifurcation of skills over the past few decades has caught title managers with a foot in two different camps culturally, and struggling to correctly staff and manage the distinct aspects of their businesses with employees who have wildly different expectations. There are the indirect costs related to loss of productivity.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

7 money moves for a prosperous New Year Use these seven tips to save money, get additional tax benefits and make the most of your insurance , credit cards, retirement accounts and more. Create a business holiday spending plan If you don’t already have a business holiday budget, consider what you can realistically afford to spend.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

Title insurance veteran Janice Cassidy has been named agency compliance manager at North American Title Insurance Co., She has also worked as an auditor, claims analyst, software tester and escrow compliance and business analyst for Fidelity National Financial , where she worked for more than eight years. a subsidiary of Doma.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

To convert these leads into business, the brokerage developed teams — also called units — headed by captains who are successful agents with high lead conversion rates. Djon Luxury Real Estate is expanding its sell-side business, training buyer-side real estate agents on the necessary contracts and selling their value to the consumer.

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The Appraiser Coach

JANUARY 23, 2024

The doctor doesn’t greet you at the door or go over your insurance with you. There are those who have discovered the law of delegation, and have found someone who is loyal and will do anything to help their business succeed. Those people are a blessing to any business they work for. Yes and no.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

These providers help title insurance professionals receive the tools to “stay compliant, reduce costs and inefficiencies and grow their business,” according to a statement. Doma Academy also provides resources like webinars and training to prevent wire fraud. Doma is eager to introduce paymints.io

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Reverse mortgage loan originators all seem to agree that 2024 is off to a better overall start in business than a tepid 2023 might suggest. Probably about 20-25% of my business has been that product.” A tax and insurance escrow account is used for budgeting and administration, similarly to traditional mortgages.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

HousingWire: Servicing has always been a challenging business, but you believe that there are external forces at play that are about to raise the level of difficulty significantly, can you please explain? Meanwhile, homeowners insurance is increasingly becoming a bigger issue for consumers and servicers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

As 2023 turned to 2024, hackers remained busy, infiltrating LoanDepot just four days into the new year. In addition to accepting what industry professionals feel is inevitable, cybersecurity experts stress the importance of protecting passwords and training employees on basic security principles. million customers. “I

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Axis 360 Lift strives to offer a comprehensive understanding of the mortgage business by addressing each step of the process. Many Axis trainees come from sales-based careers in hospitality, retail or insurance, which makes it easier to adapt to the mortgage business. But some are completely fresh to the field.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

The title insurance giant announced that Frank Sodaro will succeed Karl Mueller as chief financial officer when Mueller retires at the end of June. Lieser has worked in Old Republic’s title insurance business for 37 years. For all of 2020, the company reported a 20% increase in title insurance income, rounding out at $3.29

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In mid-November, the Federal Bureau of Investigations released its 2022 Congressional report on business email compromise (BEC) and real estate wire fraud. of transactions had issues leading to wire and title fraud risk at closing and 5% of transactions were not registered or valid in title insurer systems at time of closing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

But unlike financing with a traditional mortgage, monthly principal and interest payments are not required on the loan, so long as the homeowner keeps up to date with real estate taxes, homeowners’ insurance and property maintenance. The 6% limit also includes payment of the Up-Front Mortgage Insurance Premium (UFMIP).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Plus, we offer appraisals and field services through other Altisource’s lines of business, including insurance through CastleLine. HW: What would you say to potential clients who are already extremely busy and concerned about the tech integration/implementation process? Security is a major priority for us too.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A housing market marked by relatively high interest rates and tight inventory — and punctuated by the practice of home inspection waivers to sweeten offers — are taking a bite out of business for home inspectors, who play a key role in the sales process by ensuring that buyers are not being sold a lemon of a house. and Canada. Binney said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

The pandemic disruption to normal mortgage business operations and forced business closures has placed additional strain on the hiring and training of new employees with relevant experience to address workflow volume spikes associated with refinancing and loan modifications.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The American Land Title Association’s (ALTA) 2021 Wire Fraud and Cyber Crime Survey noted in a third of all real estate and mortgage transactions, title insurance professionals reported cyber criminals trying to deceive employees into wiring money to fraudulent accounts. . To boot, check fraud is also on the rise.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

A HECM is insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 2 and cannot be frozen or reduced at any time. The borrower simply needs to pay taxes, insurance and keep up to date on home maintenance. Another advantage of HECMs over HELOCs is that they’re FHA-insured and offer unique borrower safeguards. trillion in home equity.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

According to a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation , business email compromise in real estate, which is how most wire fraud is conducted, impacted a total of 2,284 victims in 2022, resulting in $446 million in losses. Cybercrime rings have taken aim at U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

[They likely] would feel much more confident that they can keep a significant amount of the proceeds from their departure home and not have to make monthly mortgage payments, provided they continue to pay their taxes and insurance and maintain the home,” said Rob Cooper, National Purchase and Builders Sales Leader for Longbridge. “If

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

After all, title insurance is only issued after the public records are thoroughly scrutinized. An increasingly aggressive regulatory enforcement stance at the federal and state levels, plus the perennial threat of fraud and error in the production (and support) processes are very real dangers to title agents and business owners.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Take, for example, Miami-based proptech firm Realfinity , which aims to challenge the status quo with a new business venture. Other potential business opportunities are created down the road through refinances. I have had agents tell me, ’You’re not getting any of my mortgage business anymore,’ he said. Risky business for LOs?

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

It’s significantly impacting the title insurance industry now and will only become more prominent as the boomer workforce continues with retirement plans. The solution to these rising threats — as is the case with most cyber-defense strategies, is proactive planning, oversight, and training. Financial and operational headaches.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2022

Samson has a different business model and branding than Compass, but both brokerages identify as “agent-centric.”. Samson is so agent-centric, in fact, that its agents receive a 100% commission split and services like training, office desks, and help with marketing. From one perspective, the U.S. real estate agent is in peril.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Managing a profitable mortgage business can be challenging in the best of markets. Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) are valuable assets for mortgage lenders when origination business is slow. A well-trained servicing staff, equipped with the right software, can service 700 or more loans per employee.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

The title insurance industry is on the front lines in a never-ending war with the fraudsters. Businesses are hit less often than consumers, but they are getting almost three time the amount of money from business than they are from individual consumers, so it is not a matter of if you will get hit, but a matter of when.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

I graduated high school quite early and I ended up being a title clerk there for a while before going to university, where I got a degree in business. BH: Your fabulous side is definitely showcased on your social media platforms – you do a great job of highlighting your personality, while educating people about title insurance.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Let’s face it: joint ventures (JVs) and affiliated business arrangements (ABAs) are all the rage in the residential real estate space right now. One would think CRE businesses would be knocking down the door to harvest new forms of income. And why not? Instead, they’re leaving money on the table. Not to mince words: title is hard.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

VP, Sales Training. Mortgage Insurers. Westcor Land Title Insurance Company. WFG National Title Insurance Company. VP, Equitable Housing, Single-Family Business. Managing Director, Business Optimization. Enact Mortgage Insurance. Enact Mortgage Insurance. MIAMI Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2020

In its July 21, 2020, statement of charges, NYDFS alleged that First American Financial, one of the country’s largest title insurers, failed to properly respond to a security vulnerability on its website. Second, centralize controls and empower your Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

CM : Firstly, reverse mortgages, whether government-insured or proprietary, are non-recourse loans. That’s why we do everything we can to help lenders—first, understand the product complexities and second, its application across a myriad of unique borrower scenarios—before we approach the value-add of the product for their businesses.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

Should Propy succeed, they would change and maybe jeopardize the business of title insurers (the initial sale did not obtain such insurance). Karayaneva urged real estate agents to get on board and become “crypto certified,” an unofficial designation the company bestows following training and course work.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The title insurance industry is built on service. In combination with the pandemic-driven “Great Resignation,” the pivot to a purchase market that will demand more, not less, service creates an equation unfavorable to title agents and business owners across the industry. We will soon find out. But it goes beyond benefits.

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Lamacchia Realty

MAY 20, 2022

The Boston Business Journal has named Lamacchia Realty to its exclusive 2022 Fast 50 list, which represents the 50 fastest-growing private companies in Massachusetts. The numbers are crunched and analyzed by the Business Journal’s research department. On Thursday, May 19th Boston Business Journal held an event for the Fast 50 Honorees.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

They essentially housed our entire business,” Millstein said. “I Some of the independent title insurers the firm contracts out to were having an issue. The advice we have been giving everybody is to think about business resilience and what the worst case scenario might look like and how you can recover from that,” he said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

As a driver of the economy, housing should be bolstered by: Non-bank lending institutions to lend in lower-income areas and to minorities in the same way that CRA provides for banks Reducing government-insured and guaranteed mortgage loan fees. Reducing government-insured and guaranteed mortgage loan fees.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

They have had conversations with their business partners to identify vulnerabilities and have tried to act as soon as possible to mitigate risks. Training their workforce is also crucial, they said. Valverde said the problem affects homeowners, investors and insurance companies, and Ginnie Mae is “a bridge for all those counterparties.”

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