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What We've Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate: How Traditional Financial Reporting Contributes to Misunderstanding of Title Insurance Loss Activity
This paper focuses on a specific financial reporting practice that has contributed to the Title insurance industry's failure to communicate the unique characteristics associated with its loss containment activities. The author believes that communication can be enhanced if both parties, the Title industry and its regulators, address and acknowledge the...
Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Title Insurance, Author, Financial Planning, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Finance, Business Operations
White papers 2006-11-01
Realtors Promote Competitiveness of Title Insurance Industry
Real estate professionals assist in nearly all aspects of the home purchase transaction by serving as a valuable source of information and offering their expertise to both first-time and experienced home buyers. When real estate agents, for example, recommend a title company, they know their reputation and livelihood is on...
Tags: Title Insurance, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2006-04-28
Home Buying 101: What's Title Insurance, and Do I Need It?
A title is a written document that shows ownership of property. It includes the signatures of current owners and a legal description of the property. A title is also known as a deed. Before one closes on a new home, a title examiner will conduct a title search. This is...
Tags: Property, Title Insurance, EzineArticles.com, Title, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2006-01-27
Chicago Properties - Title Insurance Tips
If one plans to buy a Chicago property, the sooner one learn about title insurance, the better. For many first time Chicago real estate buyers, the first time they hear about title insurance at the closing of their Chicago property. This paper presents the basics of title insurance for protecting...
Tags: Business Operations, Chicago, Title Insurance, Real Estate
White papers 2006-01-05
Title Insurance - Examples of Problems and Advice
Title insurance prevents the property owner from suffering financial loss if, at any time during his ownership of the property, someone comes along who can show that they have full, or partial, ownership of the property instead. Every mortgage lender one is aware of requires title insurance be purchased to...
Tags: EzineArticles.com, Title Insurance, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2005-09-01
Understanding Title Insurance
Title to a property is a record detailing the owners of the property and rights associated with the ownership. Title typically shows a progression of ownership from the first owner to the current one. Title is a fairly simple concept, but when it goes wrong it is a nightmare. That...
Tags: Real Estate, Business Operations, Title, EzineArticles.com, Title Insurance
White papers 2005-08-22
How Are Title Insurance Companies Using GIS?
When one thinks of GIS, title insurance isn't the first thing that comes to mind. However, many title offices are finding GIS is just what they need to help with their mapping and document management needs. Title plants, data centers that process thousands of land records each day, have found...
Tags: Software, Business Operations, Real Estate, GIS, Title Insurance
White papers 2005-07-05
An Overview of Easements
Title insurance is generally - associated with insuring a purchaser's or lender's interest in a particular piece of real estate. The right to use an easement is often considered less important than unencumbered title of the insured parcel. An easement, however, can significantly affect the value of the insured parcel.
Tags: EzineArticles.com, Title Insurance, Parcel, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2005-06-28
Cracking Down on Illegal Practices in the Title Insurance Industry
This paper investigates the practice of rebating in title insurance industry. Since approximately 1997, insurance regulators allege that title insurers began engaging in the illegal practice of rebating by forming captive reinsurance companies that in turn draw rebates from the title insurance companies. These sophisticated schemes are designed so that...
Tags: Insurance, Real Estate, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Title Insurance, Practice, Insurance Company
White papers 2005-06-23
Title Insurance Protects Your Financial Investment
There are two types of title insurance: lender policy and the owner's title insurance. Most lenders require a loan policy when they issue a loan to protect their interest should a problem arise. The policy amount decreases each year and eventually disappears once the loan is paid off. Therefore the...
Tags: Investment, Title Insurance, Financial, Business Operations, Real Estate
White papers 2005-05-09
What to Expect in Closing Costs on a Home Purchase
New homeowners are often taken aback by up-front closing costs such as mortgage and title insurance, attorney fees, recording fees and loan points, which can run into the thousands of dollars. But there is no need to be afraid of these charges. With a little background on their purpose and...
Tags: Lender, Title Insurance, EzineArticles.com, Real Estate, Mortgages, Business Operations, Finance, Capital Structures
White papers 2005-02-20
The Role of the Monoline Requirement in Assuring Title Insurance Effectiveness
A "monoline" requirement, i.e., the statutory restriction of companies writing a particular line of insurance to writing only that line, occurs today in just three property-casualty lines: title insurance, mortgage guaranty insurance, and financial guaranty insurance. In light of the trend toward the elimination of specialization for all types of...
Tags: Finance, Corporate Insurance, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Insurance, Real Estate, Title Insurance
White papers 2004-12-01
Trends in Real Estate and Title Insurance
In an age of special purpose entities, bankruptcy remote entities, check-the-box filings, and securitized real estate, there has been a re-emergence of property ownership by tenancies in common, a throwback to an earlier era. While tenancies in common certainly offer investors new opportunities, they also raise important issues for both...
Tags: Title Insurance, Entity, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2004-04-12
The Monoline Restrictions on Mortgage and Title Insurance, With Special Application to California
This paper provides an economic analysis of the monoline restriction for both mortgage and title insurance. The purpose is to evaluate whether or not the monoline requirement continues to represent good public policy. California is used as an important and typical case study. This paper reviews these two industries and...
Tags: Purpose, Title Insurance, California, Mortgages, Real Estate, Insurance, Financial Planning, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
White papers 2003-06-17
Title Insurer Year-End 2002 Results: Firing on All Cylinders
This paper on title insurance explains the declining interest rate environment throughout 2002 provided a fertile market for mortgage refinancing activity, driving the title insurance industry to its second consecutive year of record-breaking revenues. The most prosperous year in title insurance history occurred despite a dismal economic backdrop in which...
Tags: Business Operations, Real Estate, Title Insurance, Firing
White papers 2003-03-13
Monoline Restrictions, With Applications to Mortgage Insurance and Title Insurance
The key goal of this paper is to investigate the conditions under which monoline restrictions represent sensible regulatory policy. This is an intriguing question because multiline insurance structures have the obvious diversification benefit that the firm's capital is available to support claims against any of its lines. Indeed, all states...
Tags: Title Insurance, Mortgage, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Insurance, Corporate Insurance, Finance
White papers 2003-01-27
Review and Outlook: 2002-2003 U.S. Title Insurance
In spite of the expected decline in title revenues the title insurance industry is in very good shape, and supports the reports Stable Rating Outlook. The health of the title insurance industry is based on quality balance sheets exhibited by most companies in the industry, expectations for a continuation of...
Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Title Insurance, Real Estate, Balance Sheets, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2003-01-15
Title insurance: Is It Wanted Here?
This paper discusses about title insurance which was developed in the post-Civil War era in the United States of America, supplementing existing lawyer's and conveyance's 'error' insurance by providing insurance against any defect in titles to real estate, in the absence of reliable title registration systems. The state-run registers were...
Tags: Finance, Corporate Insurance, Business Operations, Mortgages, Financial Planning, Insurance, Real Estate, Capital Structures, Title Insurance
White papers 2002-11-14
A Transaction-Cost View of Title Insurance and Its Role in Different Legal Systems
This article outlines a transaction cost theory of 'title insurance' and analyses the role it plays in countries with recording and registration of land titles. Title insurance indemnifies real estate right holders for losses caused by pre-existing title defects that are unknown when the policy is issued. It emerged to...
Tags: Business Operations, Real Estate, Title Insurance
White papers 2002-10-01
Banks as Insurance Referral Agents? The Convergence of Financial Services: Evidence from the Title Insurance Industry
The purpose of this paper is to offer a glimpse into the potential industrial organization of the property casualty insurance (P&C) market if banks continue to penetrate it at current rates. To do so, the paper studies an insurance market where banks are already integral in distribution: Title insurance. They...
Tags: Agent, Title Insurance, Bank, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Financial Planning, Insurance, Real Estate, Convergence, Financial Service, Business Operations
White papers 2002-09-01
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