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Assurance, Dodd-Frank Act, Real Estate Market, Recording Fees

A Good Time to Catch Up

Assurance, CFPB, Fraud, Illinois, Leading Title Agent, Real Estate Market, WGN-TV

SPRING HAS SPRUNG. Will the Market Pick Up?

Assurance

Can CRE Lead the Way?

Last year’s federal tax legislation has begun to sink in, with employers adjusting withholding levels to match the new IRS charts and many employees seeing larger paychecks as a result. It’s hard ...

Commercial Real Estate, Housing, TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure

Illinois Moving Forward on Regulatory Guidance for Title Insurance Fees

In a most welcome development, last week I attended a meeting at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago called by the Illinois Department of Financia...

Regulations and compliance

Closing a Volatile Year

As 2017 comes to a close, I am hard pressed to think of a year in my lifetime that witnessed so much Washington-based controversy since Vietnam coupled with Watergate. Front and center on my mind at t...

CFPB, Housing, Taxes, TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure

The Tax Plan Cometh

We have to address the elephant in the room: tax code changes and their effect on housing in 2018 and beyond. First, NAR reports that next year could see an increase in existing home sales due to an i...

Cyber-security, Taxes, TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure

Housing Inventory Still an Issue

Commercial Real Estate, Cyber-security, Housing, Real Estate Market

Homes more valuable than ever. Is that a good thing?

As CNBC reported, last week Zillow said that the median value of all U.S. homes has exceeded $200,000, the highest it has ever been. Zillow also said ...

CFPB, Cyber-security, Housing