This is part two of a two part blog that discusses how the country’s improved economic health will affect the real estate and title insurance industries as the 2014 spring buying season begins. Click here for part one. Regulations Any part of the housing market that is touched by the banking system will have to […]
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Trends in Real Estate & Title Insurance as the 2014 Buying Season Begins
On April 16th, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, spoke at the Economic Club of New York and stated that if forecasts hold true, the economy is on its way to the best place it has been in nearly a decade. This improved economic health will affect the real estate and title insurance industries. Decline in […]
Better Training Results in Increased Accuracy
This is part two of a blog series on what makes us different. Click here for part one. We attribute much of our success to our highly structured and rigorous employee training program. We start our hiring process with IQ and personality tests. Over our 36 years in the business, we have tracked the results […]
What Makes Us Different
Every successful company builds upon a competitive advantage to gain and keep customers. Some companies compete on price, others on completion schedules, and still others compete on relationships. At HDEP International, we have planted our competitive flag on the mountain of a well-selected and trained work force. We believe that a deep understanding of a […]
Title insurance differs from other types of insurance – Part 3
Most insurance lines are based on unknown individual event liabilities – that is, it is not known where a claim will occur or when. No one can predict with certainty where a hurricane will hit or when or how destructive it might be; no one can predict who will get what disease and what it […]
Title insurance differs from other types of insurance – Part 2
Most insurance lines are based on unknown individual event liabilities – that is, it is not known where a claim will occur or when. No one can predict with certainty, where a hurricane will hit or when or how destructive it might be; no one can predict who will get what disease and what it […]
Title insurance differs from other types of insurance (Part 1)
Most insurance lines are based on unknown individual event liabilities – that is, it is not known where a claim will occur or when. No one can predict with certainty, where a hurricane will hit or when or how destructive it might be; no one can predict who will get what disease and what it […]
Title Plant Outsourcing – Outsourcing Locates Research
A modern title plant is a computerized index to the documents recorded in the county recorder’s office, as well as the scanned images of the documents themselves. Title searchers and examiners query the title plant for documents related to specific property by legal description, or by an individual’s name (there may be other search methods […]
Title Insurance Outsourcing – Make It Easy For Your Underwriter (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a two-part blog series about how title insurance outsourcing affects the relationship between title agents and their underwriters. For Part 1, click here. In our experience, a quality and accuracy driven approach and methodical set up process reduces the possibility of issues between title agents and their underwriters. The standards […]
Title Insurance Outsourcing – Part 1 Make It Easy For Your Underwriter
Many title agents still remain skeptical about title insurance outsourcing solutions. Part of the skepticism comes from uncertainty about how an outsourcing solution may affect a title agent’s relationship with its underwriter. This blog explains how HDEP makes title insurance outsourcing easy for both the title agent and its underwriter. We have heard complaints about […]