At CLTA's 118th Annual Convention, CLTA President Shari Schneider proudly presented a series of much-deserved industry awards, recognizing outstanding contributions by individuals who have made a lasting impact to the industry ...

The CLTA Board of Governors and membership-at-large elected the following Officers to serve from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 ...

Assembly Bill 1240 (Lee) has passed the Assembly and would prohibit a business entity that has an interest in more than 1,000 single-family residential properties from ...

Senate Bill 681 (Wahab) was recently amended to change the provisions that deemed abandoned all or a portion of a mortgage debt secured by a subordinate mortgage, based on certain ...

Senate Bill 625 (Wahab) addresses reconstruction of destroyed or damaged structures where there has been a disaster. One of its provisions would make any covenant, restriction, or ...

Senate Bill 518 (Pierson) has advanced in the Legislature and would create the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery (Bureau). The bill would establish ...

Assembly Bill 771 (Macedo) updates California's Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) to match the national standard used in 44 states, simplifying how debtor names are recorded on ...

The CLTA has been following the regulatory process as a second round of changes are pending to proposed privacy regulations. The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) closed its ...

FinCEN announced that it is again seeking comments, due by July 7, on an updated draft of the reporting form that will be used to report information about certain residential real ...

Fidelity National Financial and Fidelity Title Insurance Company have filed a lawsuit in Florida federal court challenging the new residential transfer reporting rules ...

Fidelity Reports Q1 2025 Earnings; First American Shares First-quarter 2025 Results; Old Republic Reports Q1 2025 Results; Stewart Details First-quarter 2025 Results ...

ALTA reported that Fannie Mae published a list of title insurance underwriters it has approved to perform funding functions—except where limited by law—for multifamily ...

As mortgage originations increased in 2024, so did title insurance premium volume. According to ALTA’s Market Share Analysis, the title insurance industry generated ...

Bartel v. Chicago Title Insurance Company. Cal.App. 6th Dist. (H052083) 5/12/25 (Cert. for Pub. 5/30/25). Plaintiff purchased a rural property in Santa Cruz County, which was ...