CLTA has updated its California Anti-Rebate Law Training Manual, a generalized informational template intended to provide CLTA members with readily accessible material on the requirements of ...

Assembly Bill 2980 (Low) originally would have permitted county recorders to cross-reference real property documents on a blockchain ledger. The bill has since been amended to ...

Assembly Bill 3100 (Low) would permit an assumption of a home loan by a existing borrower. This bill requires that a conventional home mortgage loan originated on or after ...

Assembly Bill 491 (Wallis) allows a local agency to adopt an ordinance establishing a procedure to collect certain administrative fines or penalties imposed by lien upon the ...

The Newsom administration released a draft of a proposal relating to streamlining the rate filing approvals for Prop. 103 insurers in response to the insurance crisis affecting the...

Assembly Bill 1950 creates a task force to study how to compensate the former residents of the Chavez Ravine area of the City of Los Angeles who were forcibly displaced by ...

In 2020, pursuant to the passage of state legislation in the form of AB 3121 (Weber), California established a Task Force to “identify, compile, and synthesize the documentary record on a range of ...

The CLTA received a letter from the Department of Insurance on the use of “foreclosure lists” in title marketing practices. This letter is also available on the ...

Fraud and forgery claims represent 21% of the total dollars spent by title insurers on claims expense and losses, with an average claim cost of over $143,000, according to a new ...

The title insurance industry generated $3.35 billion in title insurance premiums during the first quarter of 2024 compared to $3.37 billion during the same period a year ago, according to ...

Last week, Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), showed the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.95 percent. ...

CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, has released the Homeowner Equity Report (HER) for the first quarter of 2024. The report shows ...

Prang v. Los Angeles County Assessment Appeals Board (S266590). The court held that the transfer of the properties from a corporation to a trust resulted in a change in ownership for ...