The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), one of the U.S. Treasury’s leading agencies in the fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism, renewed its Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs) earlier… read more →
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Know your types of title insurance There are different kinds of title insurance available to homebuyers. Owner’s Policies protect the purchaser against encroachments onto an adjacent property, previously undiscovered liens… read more →
Shop Around for the Best Deal Title insurance involves a two-part process. First, a search of a property’s title history is conducted to look for errors or problems with the… read more →
The Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act, commonly known as FIRPTA, was originally enacted by Congress in 1980. Congress created FIRPTA based on reports that non-U.S. investors (investors without… read more →
It has now been a little over 2 months since the CFPB’s Know Before You Owe TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures (TRID) went into effect and several reports show that the number… read more →
Since 2012, Secure Insight has vetted and monitored nearly 15,000 settlement agents in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. During that time period these agents closed… read more →
Moody’s Investors Services reported that several third-party firms found TRID violations in more than 90 percent of the loans that were audited. The data is based on approximately 300 loans… read more →