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Attorney General takes action against real estate company Action 9 first investigated last year [Florida]
Florida Attorney General’s office is taking legal action against a major real estate company it claims swindled homeowners with quick cash offers.
Action 9′s Todd Ulrich first reported on the company over a year ago, and in a recent investigation, Ulrich found dozens of local consumers signed contracts with MV Realty not realizing it was a 40-year deal to sell their house or they would have to pay thousands of dollars in penalties.
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Mortgage Rates: Inside the Numbers with Expert Analysis from Black Knight's Andy Walden
The headlines are intended to grab us and get that click. But what's really going on in the bond markets? What direction are mortgage interest rates headed? And what key data are industry insiders watching to determine how, and when the market will improve?
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Fraudulent Zillow listings continue string of real estate scams in Wasatch Back [Utah]
The Park City Board of Realtors says multiple property listings on Zillow have been identified as fraud, as owners who aren’t selling are seeing their homes on the website listed as for sale by owner.
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Important Notice for Maine Bureau of Insurance Licensees: Confirm Your Email Address and Other Contact Information
The Maine Bureau of Insurance is now using email to send notifications to licensees, including invoices, copies of licenses, late renewal notices, continuing education reminder notices, license expirations, and various other correspondence.
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Whitfield County real estate deeds go digital [Georgia]
Whitfield County Clerk of Superior Court Babs Bailey held an open house to showcase the release of the new online Grantor/Grantee Index and Deed retrieval solution.
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SOLD! Iowa Farmland Hits $30,000 Per Acre
That’s right, there is now a $30,000-per-acre club in Iowa.
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Unused commercial space continues to convert into much-needed apartments [California]
The adaptation of vacant or underused commercial property, such as hotels and offices, into apartments has become a sustainable option for creating more housing
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Vantage Point: Road or No Road? [Pennsylvania]
It looks like a public road, it’s used like a public road, but is it one?
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Ag Law Developments in the Courts
Recent court developments involving farmers, ranchers, rural landowners and agribusinesses.
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Till...Rent...Do Us Part?
A Connecticut appellate court reversed in part a judgment involving a landlord who sought damages for back rent from a husband and wife.
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Surprising Legal Ground Rules for Squatting in Washington State
What first comes to mind when you hear the word "squatting?" For many people, squatting conjures up images of homeless people setting up tents on vacant city lots or maybe even occupying an abandoned building. While these are both examples of squatting, they're not the only situations in which squatting can occur. In some cases, squatting may even be legal in Washington State.
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NY Passes Prohibitions Regarding Registration of Defaulted Mortgages
As of November 21, 2022, New York prohibits local government registration of defaulted residential mortgages before a notice of pendency is filed in court. The new law also places limits on local governments and mortgage lenders and servicers that use these registries.
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Voluntary land registration [Scotland]
Registers of Scotland have announced their ambition to have 100% of the land in Scotland mapped on this new Land Register by 2024. Kirstin Wilson explains the merits of voluntarily registering your property before this date.
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New bill would abolish squatter's rights in Alberta
A new bill aims to abolish adverse possession in Alberta in an attempt to defend landowners’ property rights.
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The Line: Ushering in the Future or a Smokescreen for Repression? | |
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In January 2021, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia announced The Line, a “civilization revolution” designed to “transform the concept of a conventional city into that of a futuristic one.” 170 kilometers long and with walls taller than the Empire State Building, The Line promises to create a city without roads or cars, instead relying on “invisible technology” and artificial intelligence to place everything residents might need within a five-minute radius.
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3 arrested in Queens deed thefts, 5 at large: AG | |
Last month, Attorney General Letitia James called on New York lawmakers to consider deed theft a standalone crime to make it easier to bring offenders to justice.
In the meantime, though, James is making do.
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Title Agents Take Business to the Next Level | |
We're here to make the process simple and profitable for agents interested in growing their business by expanding into multiple states. We offer you one point of contact to streamline your options and solutions.
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The Best Part of Waking Up Is A Quarter-Million Dollars In Your Cup
In 1995, moviegoers were treated to a psychological thriller titled “Copycat.” It has generally good reviews — a 75% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes to go with a 64% audience score on the same site, and the late Roger Ebert gave it 3.5 stars out of four. If you read through some of the reviews, you’ll see the same trend — a decent but not spectacular plot sets an acceptable floor, and the star power of Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, and Russell Christoff carry the film beyond those limitations.
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Kelvin-Helmholtz: Rare wave clouds amaze sky-watchers in Wyoming
Stunned sky-watchers in the US state of Wyoming have snapped photos of a rare cloud formation crashing across the horizon like ocean surf.
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Jonathan the tortoise celebrates 190th birthday, oldest living land animal
Jonathan first arrived in his current home on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic in 1882 as a gift to the governor of the island, which is a British territory. At that time, he was thought to already be 50 years old.
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NYC Has the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, But Another NY City Has a Keg Tree
Rochester Genesee Keg Tree will be lit Friday night. While not as traditional as the Rockefeller tree, the Genesee Keg Tree pays homage to the brewery and the 600-plus employees who work there.
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Her Mother is Also Her Uncle
A young girl underwent a DNA test to establish her paternity. The results that came back were so confusing that the science director of the genetic institute in Colombia, Juan Yunis, assumed the sample was contaminated and ordered the test done again. But the results were the same. Some parts of her genome excluded her mother as a parent, while others excluded her assumed father. Further tests found that the child's mother had XY chromosomes in her blood, which indicate a genetic male.
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Just Room Enough Island [Wellesley Island, New York]
This Tiny Island Only Has Room For One House
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