 Los Angeles title leader shares operations update amid wildfiresTuesday, January 14, 2025 As historic and devastating wildfire continues to move through the Los Angeles area, a leader of Anywhere Integrated Services’ West Coast operations shared an update with The Title Report.
As of Jan. 13, 24 people have been confirmed to have died as a result of the wildfires. That’s in addition to the displacement of thousands of others and destruction of 12,000-plus structures, including some of Anywhere’s offices and employees’ homes. .
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 CertifID acquires Paymints.ioTuesday, January 14, 2025 CertifID is acquiring digital money transfer platform Paymints.io, enabling extended security and enhanced consumer convenience for real estate transactions, according to the companies.
CertifID adds that as many as one in 20 homebuyers and sellers fall victim to fraud during real estate closings, with the FBI reporting nearly $2 billion stolen over the past decade due to real estate cybercrime.
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 NFIB: Fewer small businesses plan to raise compensation Tuesday, January 14, 2025 New data from the National Federation of Independent Business shows fewer small-business owners are planning to raise compensation over the next three months with labor costs reported as a top challenge.
The share of small-business owners reporting labor quality as their top operating problem was unchanged from November.
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AmTrust Title appoints Florida state counselTuesday, January 14, 2025 AmTrust Title Insurance Co. has tapped a new Florida state counsel who brings more than a decade of experience in the title and real estate law industries to his new position.
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 First American economist: Expect housing market progress, not perfectionFriday, January 10, 2025 First American Deputy Chief Economist Odeta Kushi provided a housing market outlook for 2025, cautioning industry peers to expect progress but not a return to pre-pandemic booms.
Housing inventory issues, a defining feature of the pandemic and post-pandemic markets, are likely to persist in the year ahead, according to Kushi.
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 Report: Business leaders cast doubt on AI-driven cybersecurity Friday, January 10, 2025 A new report shows a large portion of business leaders expressed doubt over the effectiveness and safety of artificial intelligence- (AI) driven cybersecurity solutions.
The study cited rising concern over distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, with 65 percent of leaders across surveyed regions anticipating AI-driven DDoS attacks to dominate within the next four years.
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 Calabria offers exclusive take on housing policy under second Trump termFriday, January 10, 2025 October Research’s Keys to Real Estate podcast broke its season hiatus for an exclusive interview with Dr. Mark Calabria, senior advisor at the Cato Institute and former Federal Housing Finance Agency director under Donald Trump.
In conversation with Chief Knowledge Officer Mary Schuster, Calabria shared his perspective on what the housing and lending industries might face during Trump’s second term.
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