After back-to-back record setting years, the real estate industry is adjusting to higher interest rates while consumers deal with raging inflation, higher gas prices and watch their retirement savings dwindle each day. If your business wasn't healthy prior to this downshift, we don't blame you- we've all been busy!

Now is the time for a check up, and FNF can help you. In this episode, Chuck Cain invites FNF's Vice President, Market & Technology Development Ethan Powsner to share how he and his team help agents improve their business.

A state lawmaker says he has introduced that could help first-time homebuyers navigate the challenges posed by the current real estate market. The bill Sen. Bill Blessing (R-Colerain Township) is sponsoring, SB334, would make it tougher for corporations to buy homes in bulk. Blessing said corporations are buying homes in bundles then renting them out, often taking opportunities away from potential first-time homeowners.

Despite a targeted focus by staff and political hand-wringing by elected officials, delayed permitting in Dallas continues to cost developers and the city millions of dollars as intake exhausts resources. “Between this past quarter and the quarter before it, there is an uptick of almost 290 more permits,” Assistant City Manager Majed Al-Ghafry told Dallas City Council during a May 2 briefing. “As we are inundated with permits, it keeps adding up.”

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Whether representing a plaintiff determining where to file a lawsuit or a defendant evaluating whether it can remove a state action to federal court, lawyers are often tasked with determining the citizenship of a party that is an LLC. In many instances, such an evaluation requires information beyond the lawyer’s reach, and often, identifying an LLC’s immediate owner leaves the attorney no better off than before, if that owner is simply another LLC. It is not uncommon for lawyers to discover layer after layer of LLC ownership before discovering who the ultimate, individual owners are.

 Legislation headed to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk for signature seeks to formally establish the state borderline between Michigan and Indiana, something that has not been done since the early 1800s.

The Biden Administration has proposed to limit the gain that can be deferred under a like-kind exchange of real estate under section 1031 to $500,000/year for individual taxpayers (or $1 million/year for married individuals filing jointly).

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The New Jersey Appellate Division recently reversed the finding of a lower court, which had denied a lender and property owner’s motion to vacate a final judgment in a tax sale foreclosure. See Pc8reo v. Block 3031, 2022 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 670 (App. Div. Apr. 22, 2022). In the case, BRR purchased a property in 2019 via a loan secured by a mortgage that was assigned to lender, Toorak. BRR failed to pay taxes, and the municipal tax collector sold the tax lien certificate to Plaintiff.

The question in litigation is usually “WHAT”: what happened, what contract was breached, what did someone do or fail to do, and so on. In Hughes v. CJM Resources, LP, the question was, “WHO” had the right to file the suit in the first place? The Eastland Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s holding that the plaintiff no longer owned the causes of action he pursued after he conveyed his mineral and royalty interests to a third party.

The title company claims the notary was negligent when checking the California driver’s license since the notary failed to observe the license was fake.

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky recently held that a lender might have a professional negligence claim against a law firm when the law firm conducted a title search for the incorrect property, the resulting mortgage encumbered the incorrect property and, as a result, the lender was forced to repurchase the mortgage.

The tenant claims they are entitled to purchase the property under their right of first refusal since the owner did not offer them with a valid offer and demanded a price greater than the price agreed to with the third-party buyer.

In our previous NFT Newsroom posts, we explored the differences between virtual real estate and physical real estate as well as the process of leasing virtual land in metaverse. Today, we are focused on the comparison between the purchase transaction of virtual real estate in the metaverse and the purchase of real estate in the physical world.

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There is good news for home buyers as developers – after selling all the flats and handing over the society – have been asked to fulfill the documentation process for the conveyance deed. This means tenants need not run from pillar to post for this document anymore.

Transferring property from one owner to another is taking a lot longer in Alberta than it used to. Professionals in the real estate, law and land surveying industries say the title registration delays have yet to derail deals, but they are holding up certain types of real estate transactions. They are also a looming problem for municipalities, which send out property tax bills this month.

The Telangana High Court has held that a person, whose title is in dispute, cannot invoke the provisions of Section 48 of the Land Acquisition Act, 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 for withdrawal of land acquisition proceedings.

Over the last two weeks, trips to and from home have gotten a little longer for Pat and pretty much everybody else in a specific Elko New Market neighborhood. A handful of concrete barriers have been up across sections of two private streets near Boulder Pointe Golf Club since mid-April. The headache for homeowners can be blamed on an ongoing dispute between a homeowners association and a property owner.

Ziel Feldman is in good company. At least that’s what the real-estate developer at the center of one of the most spectacular meltdowns in recent memory has been telling himself. The Manhattan real-estate industry is a game of winners and losers, Feldman says, and even titans lose big sometimes. Over the past 18 months, Feldman’s firm, HFZ Capital Group, has been obliterated by foreclosures and investor lawsuits, a collapse that has dredged up unflattering details about the company’s inner workings.

An eviction drama that shook Crown Heights has taken an unexpected turn.

An attorney for Ida Robinson, a 98-year-old who alleges a real estate operative stole her row house and evicted her, withdrew a motion alleging fraud.

For agents interested in growing their business by expanding into multiple states, we’re here to make the process simple and profitable. We offer you one point of contact to streamline your options and solutions.

In a collection that’s been growing for decades, Ann Mahony has what she estimates are over 5,000 vintage handkerchiefs, depicting everything from nursery rhymes to leisure pursuits, such as skiing and golfing. Most of her cloths are from the U.S. and range from 70 to 100 years old.

A teenager from Boulder has created an invention that he wishes he didn't have to – a grocery bag that doubles as a bulletproof vest. Eighteen-year-old Trent Bush was in his senior year of high school when 10 people were shot and killed inside the Boulder Table Mesa King Soopers. A month after that tragedy, Bush came up with the idea for a tote bag that could turn into body armor.

If you attend a service in the small Roman Catholic church Sankt Maria in the Liesertal north of Gmünd in Carinthia, you might find that the pastor has to pause the sermon for an unusual reason: A road runs through the middle of the church.

Australian cyclist Nick Clark built a loyal following at his Virginia bike shop, based in part on his national and international results and a lengthy professional career. There was just one problem: none of it was true.

Goudier Island, off the northwest coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, is home to what one stamp collector from England described in 1946 as “the loneliest post office in the world.”

In 14th-century China, a craftsperson carves intricate designs into an ivory globe hiding secrets. In 17th-century England, a young chaplain bets that he can solve an enemy cipher over dinner. Puzzles have always fascinated us. They’ve been used to encrypt top-secret military secrets and to frustrate us with our lack of knowledge around five-letter words(Looking at you, Wordle.)