Register Now for CLTA's upcoming webinar, Death and Title: Estates of Decedents and Probate Issues, a 1-hour live webinar delivered to your desktop on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 from 11:00am - 12:00pm PST. Participants requesting MCLE or PD will receive 1.0 CE credit for participating in the webinar. ...

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. ...

Prior to the end of the legislative session on September 13th, California lawmakers sent several bills to the governor’s desk that seek to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Among the ...

Under existing law, a local government housing element must include an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If the inventory does not identify adequate sites to ...

Governor Newsom’s office announced a proposed deal on Assembly Bill 1482 (Chiu) to cap annual rent increases at 5 percent plus inflation through 2030. The rent cap would not apply to housing built in the ...

ALTA’s Real Property Records Committee has finalized a white paper titled “Privacy, Redaction, and Public Land Records,” which provides guidance on the redaction of information in the public land records. ...

The Board of Equalization (BOE) staff initiated a project to issue a Letter To Assessors (LTA) that summarizes the various written opinions by the BOE's Legal Department addressing (1) a property ...

MISMO recently released its remote online notarization (RON) standards, which include an update to the draft standards issued earlier this year. The RON standards allow the use of audio-visual ...

According to Housing Wire, the real estate data firm Yardi Matrix reported that the national average for cost of rent rose to $1,469 in July, a gain of 3.4% from a year earlier. The top five markets ...

California’s Blockchain Working Group, organized by the Secretary of the Government Operations Agency as required under a piece of legislation passed in 2018, will hold its first meeting in late ...

Fidelity National Financial and Stewart Information Services Corp. have agreed to terminate Fidelity's proposed merger with Stewart due to the Federal Trade Commission’s issuance of an administrative ...

Last month the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) released its Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) Determination to the Southern California Association of ...

The title insurance industry generated $6.95 billion in title insurance premiums during the first six months of 2019 compared to $7.06 billion during the same period a year ago, according to the ...

CoreLogic is forecasting national home prices to increase 5.4% from July 2019 to July 2020, although home prices have been increasing in a narrow range of 3.3% to 3.9% over the past six months. ...

According to the Wall Street Journal the sale of China insurer Anbang’s U.S. hotels was held up when fraudulent deeds were discovered during a title search. Several California hotels were ...

Southern California Edison Company v. Severns (B286354). The court held that grants of easements that also stated that the grantee shall "have free access to the telephone poles and fixtures" created ...

Precision Framing Systems v. Luzuriaga (E069158). The court held that plaintiff's mechanics lien was invalid because it was recorded before plaintiff finished corrective work. Corrective work performed ...

Pena v. Dey (C083266). Defendant was allegedly made a beneficiary of a trust by handwritten interlineations by the original settlor and trustee of the trust. Plaintiff, the successor trustee, asserted ...