On Dec. 1, title professionals will begin submitting reports to FinCEN regarding certain non-financed transfers of residential real estate to legal entities or trusts.  While title agents are scrambling to figure out how they are going to fulfill the new real estate reporting rule (RER) from an operational and financial standpoint, they are also confronted

By all counts, 2024 was a lackluster year for real estate and refinance transactions for many title agents, but the New Year promises an uptick. as pent-up demand brings more people into the general real estate market and current homeowners who have put off refinancing for cash-out necessities jump back in. Here are the predictions,

Technology as a percentage of a company’s annual revenue has nearly doubled since 2016. According to a Deloitte Global Technology Leadership Study, the average tech budget as a percentage of revenue grew from 3.28% in 2016 to 5.85% in 2024. Of course, for some industries that percentage is far greater, for instance in banking and

As we look ahead to 2025 and an improving housing market you may be entertaining the idea of adding new capabilities to your tech stack to improve productivity and streamline your processes. As you are contemplating the addition of a new application, consider the impact the integration of new technology is going to have on

It’s so easy to adopt a preferred method of communication with our customers and make that de rigueur for every occasion and for every customer. The more helpful approach may be to map your customers’ experience with you and determine at each juncture what the preferred communication method should be. For instance, you may want

This past spring, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) launched a public inquiry into why mortgage closing costs have gone up in recent years, opining that expensive closing costs can result in lower down payments and higher mortgage costs overtime. It isn’t the first time that regulators have been perplexed in trying to understand the reason and

The outside salesperson in most companies, particularly in the title insurance industry, has the most contact with the actual customer and often has the best insight into what the customer needs as well as what frustrations they experience in the course of a real estate transaction. The challenge is how to get the voice of