CLTA is pleased to release its newest CLTA Titlecast, Commercial Transactions, the first part in a two-part series. CLTA Titlecast episodes are on-demand educational audio/video podcasts FREE to CLTA members. Listen now using your computer or mobile device at your convenience...

Please see link to register below and join the California Land Title Association together with DocuSign on August 24 at 10 a.m. PST for an online webinar to discuss the benefits of RON technology, the current political landscape across the country, and the future for RON in California...

The CLTA has moved to support Assembly Bill 1466 (McCarty), which would enact a program to redact unlawful discriminatory covenants from California real property records, now that...

The Wall Street Journal reported that Sen. Tina Smith (D., Minn.), introduced the Mapping Housing Discrimination Act to appropriate $50 million over 10 years to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The funds would be used for...

The Governor signed into law Assembly Bill 633 (Calderon), the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act. A legislative analysis of the measure indicates that it is “meant to address a longstanding problem: the...

Mortgage and real estate fraud are not going away anytime soon. As settlement providers and insurers, title companies are dead center in virtually every real property transaction or loan refinance in California...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing $67 million in competitive loans through the new Heirs’ Property Relending Program (HPRP). The program aims to help agricultural producers and landowners...

In 2018, State Board of Equalization (BOE) staff initiated a project to issue a “Letter to Assessors” that summarizes the various written opinions by the BOE's Legal Department addressing (1) a property owner's ability to...

Fidelity Reports Second Quarter Earnings Matches Record Margins; First American Reports Record Q2 Pre-Tax Margins; Old Republic Title Insurance Division Pre-Tax Income Doubles from a Year Ago; Stewart Title Segment Pre-Tax Earnings Show Very Strong Growth in Second Quarter...