CLTA is closely monitoring developments pertaining to COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) and its impact on member company operations and staff, including updates from national and local authorities. This resource page can be found here: https://www.clta.org/page/CLTAResourcePage.

 

On this resource page is (a) A list of all country recorders and how they are handling recordation, both paper and E-recording, a (b) A list of all 58 county recorders for title companies or CLTA members seeking further information from them, and (c) Other relevant information helpful to CLTA members.

 

Assembly Bill 3234 (Gloria) amends the Subdivision Map Act to specify that no tentative or final map is necessary to create a parcel or parcels necessary for a housing development project ...

California legislators have introduced a package of bills to promote housing construction by cutting local government fees. Because fees are a large factor in housing costs, the legislators ...

Senate Bill 1079 (Skinner) would authorize local governments to acquire a residential property by eminent domain if it has been vacant for at least 90 days, the property is owned by a ...

On March 11, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued a set of modifications to the proposed privacy regulations. The deadline for written comments on the modifications is ...

To comply with the new state law on female board representation, California publicly-traded companies will have to add 1,000 women board members by January 2021 according to an ...

Fidelity, First American, Old Republic and Stewart reports Q4 earnings an 2019 results...

The California Association of Realtors is not revising its current 2020 housing market forecast in light of the coronavirus, but says that it will continue to monitor the market for negative ...

Mortgage applications increased 55.4 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that a home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles has been purchased for $60 million by the co-founder of a company that was recently sold to Paypal ...

Housing Wire reported that mortgage data and software firm Black Knight has calculated that low borrowing costs have made 11.1 million U.S. mortgages “refi eligible,” meaning borrowers ...

Matson v. S.B.S. Trust Deed Network (D074442). Plaintiffs were the purchasers at a trustee's sale. They bid far more than the property was worth due to mistakenly thinking that the deed of trust being foreclosed was in first position when it ...

Madani v. Rabinowitz (B292395). In this trespass and nuisance action, the court affirmed the trial court's conclusion that defendant's fence and parked cars were continuing encroachments and affirmed the trial court's ...