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Hopdox Founder Paul Clifford Named 2026 Recipient of PRIA's Carl R. Ernst Founders Award
“Paul's impact on this industry is hard to overstate,” said Brian Boike, President of Hopdox. “From helping bring eRecording to thousands of counties for the first time to building an entirely new platform focused on service and fair pricing, Paul has spent his career making recording easier for the people who do this work every day. This award is a fitting recognition of that legacy, and everyone at Hopdox is proud to see it honored.”
Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
"Mortgage rates reached their highest levels in four weeks as investors’ concerns about inflation and growing deficits push yields higher across the globe,” said Mike Fratantoni, MBA’s SVP and Chief Economist. “Refinance volume dropped in response, but purchase volume increased modestly over the week and was slightly below last year's level."
New York Housing Leader Warns Congress Gas Bans Undermine Affordability
“I see firsthand what that means for builders and home buyers,” Fazio said. “In colder climates, fully electrifying a new home can add more than $15,000 to construction costs. For families already struggling to buy a home, that can mean the difference between qualifying for a mortgage and being priced out.”
Stewart Expands Commercial Energy & Infrastructure Capabilities with Acquisition of Tower Title
Founded in 2019, Tower Title quickly became a leading national title company catering to the telecommunication industry, while also servicing solar farms, wind turbines, data centers, and billboards. They built a name for customer service through collaboration and customization, leveraging extensive energy expertise to partner with customers across the transaction lifecycle.
Large Metro Core Counties Drive Drop in Single-Family Market Share
“Builders are finding more opportunities in smaller metro areas, where developable land is generally more available and less expensive,” said NAHB Chairman Bill Owens, a home builder and remodeler from Worthington, Ohio. “Outlying counties of small metros posted the largest gain in single-family market share, underscoring how affordability challenges are shaping where new housing can be built.”
Stewart Strengthens Title Capabilities Through Acquisition of ProTitleUSA and DocSolutionUSA
“Both of these companies bring specialized expertise that aligns with Stewart’s long-term strategy for our centralized title services,” said Fred Eppinger, Stewart CEO. “Together with our existing offerings these businesses expand our scale in title services, strengthen our lender and servicer offerings for investors and capital market clients and add innovative analytic and document generation capabilities that are highly complementary to our existing platform.”
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BlackRock Inc. Takes $32.06 Million Position in Investors Title Company $ITIC
BlackRock Inc. acquired a new position in Investors Title Company during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor acquired 117,152 shares of the insurance provider's stock, valued at approximately $32,062,000. BlackRock Inc. owned about 6.21% of Investors Title as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A number of other hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in the stock.

Trump turns up the heat on Warsh as Fed rate hike looms
Ten days ahead of a meeting in which the Federal Reserve will likely consider raising interest rates, the Trump administration looks to be in a full-court press to halt the hike in its tracks. In the past week, the president, vice president, Treasury secretary and one of the president's senior economic counselors have all urged the Fed not to raise rates and, in some cases, to cut them - an unusually broad public pressure campaign even by the standards of Trump's long-running criticism of the central bank.

'I thought it couldn't happen to me': North Little Rock woman fights to reclaim property
A woman who owns property in North Little Rock said she never thought she'd have to fight to prove her land is hers, especially after owning it for more than four decades. While the title company is owning up to a mistake, someone else is claiming that her land is theirs. "I thought it couldn't happen to me," Rosemary King said.

Title agent's guarantor can't pass mortgage recording liability to a subcontractor
A title agent failed to record a mortgage. The guarantor who backed that agent tried to pin the blame on a subcontractor - and lost. New York's Appellate Division, First Department, ruled on August 27, 2026 that the guarantor could not pass his liability down the chain to a company he said was hired to file the paperwork.


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