With change occurring in society and business at an ever-accelerating pace, how can the physical world of real estate adapt to an ever-shifting virtual world of bits and bytes? Forces disrupting real estate, including demographic polarization, ...

On January 13, 2016 FinCEN issued Geographic Targeting Orders (“GTOs”) requiring “certain U.S. title insurance companies to identify the natural persons behind companies used to pay ‘all cash’ for high-end residential real estate in the Borough of ...

First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a leading global provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions, today announced that it will host a conference call on Thursday, April 27, 2017, at 11 ...

New York State’s Department of Financial Services has issued 23 NYCRR 500, “Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies”, requiring that “[e]ach Covered Entity shall maintain a cybersecurity program designed to protect the ...

A wraparound mortgage transaction has been described as follows: [A] preexisting mortgage (usually of first priority) on the real estate remains in place, while a new “wraparound” mortgage of second priority, generally for a higher balance, is placed on ...

When two sets of sophisticated real estate investors represented by experienced counsel say something is a duck -- and it quacks and swims with its webbed feet -- is it a duck?