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This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, let’s spread awareness about real estate wire fraud

Housing Wire

Over the last decade, real estate transactions have increasingly become a prime target for cybercrime. With October being Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it is important that the real estate industry and consumers speak up and spread the word about how to prevent these real estate cybercrimes.

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How the Climate Is Reshaping the U.S. Real Estate Market

Appraisal Buzz

real estate market. trillion reduction in unadjusted real estate value over the next 30 years due to climate-related risks. According to the study, residential real estate is the bedrock of the U.S. Key Findings Climate risk reshaping real estate fundamentals: Climate change is transforming the U.S.

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Finance leader Kevin Thompson on driving financial excellence in real estate

Housing Wire

To celebrate this prestigious recognition, HousingWire reached out to 2023 Finance Leader Kevin Thompson , Head of Finance at PURE Property Management to discuss his approach to navigating challenges in today’s real estate market. Supply, supply, supply.

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How gen AI is making real estate cybercrime easier than ever

Housing Wire

We dont really think about phishing scams as a way fraudsters can use AI to infiltrate the real estate industry, but if you can use AI to make a fraudulent link that is more believable and more people click on it, then you can infiltrate any party in the transaction that you want.

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What’s Ahead in Commercial Real Estate Trends? 

Appraisal Buzz

Despite ongoing challenges, such as rising energy costs, office vacancies, and economic uncertainty, commercial real estate (CRE) investors remain optimistic about the opportunities 2025 may bring. Commercial Real Estate at TD Bank.

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Kickback accusations nothing more than government abuse and overreach, Pennsylvania mortgage brokerage says

Housing Wire

More state attorneys general are getting in on the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ( RESPA ) action. Through this setup, Newhart and the other Defendants attempted to mask the kickbacks they paid to Real Estate Professionals as sales of stock and profit distributions to shareholders, the complaint states.

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Why title insurance is essential to the U.S. system of property rights

Housing Wire

system for the transfer of real estate is unique in the world. We transfer ownership by private contract between parties; no advance government approval is required. Once the parties have closed, it is only then that we place the transfer document (deed) in the government land records. Among the many benefits of the U.S.

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