Mark Your Calendar Now! The CLTA is looking forward to welcoming you to the 113th Annual Convention at the Park Hyatt Aviara located north of San Diego in beautiful Carlsbad, California. Mark your calendar for April 26-28, 2020. Your support of the title industry is sincerely appreciated by all CLTA members. ...

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires the Attorney General to solicit broad public participation and adopt regulations to further the purposes of the CCPA. ...

Alastair Mactaggart, the founder and chair of Californians for Consumer Privacy has announced that he is filing the California Privacy Enforcement Act initiative to appear on the November 2020 ballot. The threat of an earlier initiative ...

The California Law Revision Commission (CLRC) is considering a tentative recommendation on Revocable Transfer on Death Deeds (ROTDD). The Commission is considering whether to recommend ...

Senate Bill 190 (Dodd) requires The Office of the State Fire Marshal to develop a model defensible space program that shall be made available for use by local governments in the ...

The Legislature passed a statewide rent control bill entitled The Tenant Protection Act of 2019, (Assembly Bill 1482) that limits rents in California by placing an upper limit on annual ...

You may have heard that for the first time since 1994, certain home sales of $400,000 and under will soon not need an appraisal because of revisited federal regulations. ...

In 2016, the Legislature expanded the types of instruments that may be recorded electronically and the types of entities that could submit instruments electronically. The revised law ...

Real estate data and technology company CoreLogic announced that it has acquired National Tax Search LLC, which provides property tax management services to lenders, real estate ...

The California Association of Realtors “2020 California Housing Market Forecast” has been released and C.A.R. sees a small uptick in existing single-family home sales of 0.8 percent next year to reach ...

Although half of California voters considered California “one of the best places to live,” more than half have thought about moving out of state. The main reasons given are the high cost ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Federal Housing Finance Agency jointly announced that they will allow the government-sponsored enterprises to retain up to $45 billion ...

The IRS has sent a letter to California recorders announcing that effective October 1, the IRS is lowering the fees it will pay for recording Federal Tax Liens and Releases of Federal ...

Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey released last week shows the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.57 percent, down 8 basis points from the prior week. ...

Myles v. Pennymac Loan Services (B288905).  The court upheld a demurrer, rejecting plaintiff's strange claim that an assignment of a deed of trust is void where ...