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  • Fidelity Title Calls Off the LandAmerica Merger (92)
    • Rhonda Porter: I’m re-reading the email in comment 87, I think the key word is “ownership” in stating their ownership does not include LandAmerica...
    • Rhonda Porter: The link is from Rainier Title’s website for their rate sheets. The cover of the rate sheet has LandAmerica and Commonwealth front and center....
    • Kary L. Krismer: Rhonda, what I’m not seeing in that link is a reference to Rainier Title (except for the web address). But I love this part of the email:...
    • Rhonda Porter: Roger, I wonder if AmTrust doesn’t understand “who’s who” in title–that’s amazing–thanks for sharing that. I...
  • Is the housing market performing “as expected”? (104)
    • Kary L. Krismer: I think what Bernanke was doing was trying to avoid the mistakes of Ford/Carter where the Fed clamped down on (what I consider non-existent)...
    • ARDELL: I blame Bernanke for pretty much everything. His penchant for reversing Greenspan also reversed the Country. He didn’t want to put his finger in the dike...
    • Kary L. Krismer: Bernanke will be in place possibly through Obama’s first entire term, or at least most of it (unless I’m forgetting how long he’s...
    • ARDELL: I keep thinking how lucky Obama is going to be a few years from now, if he can take the credit for things getting better. He certainly won’t get the...
  • HUD Passes RESPA Reform, New GFE Coming in 2010 (47)
    • jeremy hickling: Yeah- turning over all direction of 3rd party service providers to borrowers might in many cases be like turning loose addicts in a pharmacy. They...
  • Q&A with the Banker Panel at the National Auctioneers Association (2)
    • Kary L. Krismer: Sniglet, bankers might not know that. Non-judicial foreclosure is so favorable to lenders that they probably don’t even typically look at the...

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Owning the Malibu Community

About a month ago, I got a call from a friend who highly recommended that I give a chance to a real estate agent who is working very hard to break into the Malibu market. The idea of “owning” a piece of Malibu is somewhat irresistible to me (even if it is only the [...]

Should You Pay More For THIS House?

When determining how to structure an offer on a property, one of the key considerations is, “How scarce a commodity is this home?” How scarce it is to you, depends on the parameters you have set, and why you like this particular home, which varies from person to person.
If the property is unique because [...]

Title Insurance: Kickbacks, Competition & Pricing

Editor’s Note: Tim Kane owns and manages (with his wife Lynlee) Legacy Escrow, a local escrow company and has been a regular fixture of the Seattle blogosphere for the past year or so… Not only does he run his own blog, the closing table, but he has contributed to numerous threads on RCG under the [...]

Day Two - Realtor Mid-Year

Yes, I am tardy with my report for Day 2. There was not much going on from an interesting meeting standpoint so I visited the tradeshow floor. For anyone that has not been to a Realtor tradeshow, it is certainly an experience. Flashing buttons, contests, people throwing free things at you. [...]

Day One - Realtor Mid-Year

I just attended my first meeting at the NAR Mid-Year. It was the MLS Association Executives Committee Meeting. There were three presenters to the group and I will provide some highlights of their presentations.
Laurie Janik, NAR General Counsel
Laurie indicated that claims against MLS under the NAR EO Insurance Policy have for the first time [...]