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7/15/2025
Message from the President
I am deeply honored to have been selected as your 2025-2026 CLTA President and have tremendous gratitude to all of you who serve the CLTA and our industry. Foremost, I wish to thank ...
Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP
Petru Corporation
Capitol Report
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 130 into law, a sweeping measure that enacts a number of significant policies relating to housing, as part of a negotiation with lawmakers over the state’s budget. ...
Assembly Bill 302, which as introduced dealt with health care service plans, was significantly amended in late June to focus on the privacy rights of a new class of “protected individuals” that are defined as ...
Assembly Bill 1529 (Committee on Housing and Community Development) is an Assembly Housing Committee bill that would enact a number of disparate legislative proposals relating to housing. ...
Industry News
The California Association of Realtors released new and revised standard forms on June 24. The most significant revision is to the Purchase Agreement, which was updated to remove ...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) are making historical VantageScore® 4.0 credit scores available to approved users to support the transition to ...
Last Thursday Freddie Mac released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), showing the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.72%. The survey is focused on
The California title insurance industry generated $321,710,735 in premiums in the first quarter of 2025, making it the number three state in title premiums, behind Texas and Florida. New York ...
The California Playbook, published online by POLITICO, reported that a poll from researchers at the UC Irvine School of Social Ecology, which was shared with Playbook, found California’s housing shortage ...
FICO announced the launch of FICO® Score 10 BNPL and FICO® Score 10 T BNPL to incorporate Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) data into consumers’ credit scores. FICO states that these scores are ...
Rocket Mortgage announced the launch of a bridge loan program to allow buyers to purchase their next primary residence before selling their current one. Rocket Mortgages states that this provides both ...
Old Republic Title Tech
Naylor Association Solutions
Court Cases
After deliberating less than 90 minutes, a Los Angeles jury rendered a complete defense verdict for First American Title Insurance Co. in a major class action lawsuit. The verdict came after ...