Pull up a chair! It’s time to get cybersecurity aware! October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the crew at Florida Network Agency is on board to share tips that can protect your most important asset…YOU! Freddy McFraudster would like nothing more than for us to sit back and let him have his way with our...
The title insurance industry has been ripe for mergers and acquisitions since the national underwriters began gobbling up smaller underwriters and agents across the country decades ago. After the Great Recession decimated the real estate industry, picking up the pieces in the title insurance industry led to a lot of shifting of assets and territories...
Well, it’s that time of year again: conference season! Among our FAN, NTS, PDS and AMD Enterprises brands, we’ll have representatives at quite a few events in the next couple of months. We hope to see you at any of the RESPRO, ALTA, MBA or Florida Land Title Association events. And this year, attending live...
NTS is blazing new trails! We’ve recently introduced our RON services into the Texas market! As reported by American Land Title Association, Network Transaction Solutions (NTS), a multi-state provider of title support services including remote online notary (RON) recently introduced its RON services in Texas. NTS has completed nearly 1,000 RON closings in Texas since...
It’s difficult to calculate the enormity of the societal shifts that have taken place due to COVID 19. The scramble to move a workforce home, the desperation for housing to accommodate home offices and – for a time – home schooling, and the efforts of service providers to rethink the delivery of goods and services....
The annual National Settlement Services Summit (NS3) took place earlier this month, and FAN and AMD were there in full force! While it’s always great to see old friends and make new partners and contacts, it’s also useful to check out the content…especially after having a year or so without many in-person events. Here’s what...
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, mortgage credit availability decreased in April for the second month in a row. Joel Kan, MBA’s Associate Vice President of Economic and Industry Forecasting said mortgage credit availability fell as lenders reacted to the jump in mortgage rates over the past two months. With home prices still escalating. interest...
Especially during purchase market cycles, title insurance is a fast-paced business with a lot of moving parts. Employees have to be empowered to make decisions and move things forward without fear of being taken to task for making a wrong move. This is true for every title agent or owner, and especially for owners who’ve...
There is nothing more exciting in the world then working for months, sometimes years, to put together a merger and to finally watch it come to fruition. In the months leading up to the merger, you undoubtedly gave a lot of thought to the logistics. Bringing two companies together often means merging office space, restructuring...
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” In some ways, Charles Dickens opening salvo to his book A Tale of Two Cities feels just about right for 2022. Fresh off two straight years of historic origination volume and waves of title profits, most title businesses knew that the refinance train...
