If you have been a title business owner for any length of time, you probably feel like you have a master’s degree in crisis management. What hasn’t been thrown your way in the past few years? Think firestorms on the west coast and hurricanes on the east coast, or pandemics and cybercrime invaders. And now...
News outlets are reporting that a home in Gulfport, Florida, was put up for auction for non-fungible token (NFT). The property was subsequently transferred for about 210 Ethereum, a type of cryptocurrency, which converted in cash to approximately $631,790. Although the transfer was billed as the first property exchange using cryptocurrency, the truth is hundreds...
We recently noticed some eye-opening employment statistics in the February jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics? For starters, there are reportedly 10M+ job openings in the U.S. currently, and only 6.5M people actively looking. Wow. This is an important stat for the title insurance industry to pay attention to, because when the Spring...
The mortgage industry is also talking about eClosings and RON. Naturally, one of its leading trade publications approached our own CEO, Aaron Davis for his thoughts recently. (Subscription required) A recent study by Notarize found that lenders can save up to $444 on per loan costs with full eClosings. Title/settlement firms can save up to...
AMD Enterprises’ Own Aaron Davis Talks RON, eClosings in This Month’s ALTA Title News AMD and FAN CEO Aaron Davis is a little bit bearish on RON and eClosing crossing the adoption threshold in 2022. Yet, he’s also a little bullish, too. He shared his thoughts in an article written by ALTA VP of...
It’s been an active year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the settlement services space, to the surprise of nearly no one. 2020 was a record year for title order volume, leaving many firms flush with cash. Last year was a year of opportunity in a rising purchase market. This trend is expected to continue...
2021 has been a very busy year in the title industry, and not just because of the amazing order volume. As recent headlines will confirm, M&A activity continues to remain hot as the weather cools down, and will likely continue deep into 2022. Our own resident M&A expert, Aaron Davis, in addition to speaking on...
There aren’t a lot of business execs, owners or decision-makers out there who haven’t heard of the prestigious Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management (OPM) Program. And there aren’t a lot of people…um….anywhere, who aren’t aware that Harvard Business School is one of the very best in the world. So we’d like to take a...
NTS’s own Andrea Somers (our operations manager) was recently honored by the Florida Land Title Association for her work as the Chairperson of the FLTA Cyber Security Committee and the committee’s success. FLTA’s president, in presenting the award, complimented the work of Andrea and the committee co-chair, Shelly Mannebach, as “a perfect example of putting...
If you weren’t able to get to ALTA ONE this fall, or even if you did, but missed the session, now’s your chance to see our own Aaron Davis and a distinguished panel of experts (FNF’s Chuck Cain, alanna.ai’s Hoyt Mann, Premier One’s Kevin Nincehelser, Equity Real Estate Services’ James Schlimmer). Their discussion centered around...
