Current News

The Latest News from WFG National Title Company
ryantate
135
WFG News
February 14, 2015

Zillow’s skyrocketing growth continues

Zillow, a company that operates the nation’s most popular real estate portal, continues to grow at a staggering rate, according to its fourth-quarter and 2014 earnings report released today. The company grew its full-year revenue to $325.9 million in 2014, a 65 percent increase over 2013’s revenue total and nearly three times its 2012…
Read More
ryantate
167
WFG News
February 13, 2015

FTC will not block Zillow-Trulia merger

The Federal Trade Commission has completed its investigation of Zillow’s acquisition of Trulia and will not block the deal, which is expected to close on Tuesday. The decision puts an end to speculation that antitrust regulators might impose conditions on a deal that puts ownership of the two most popular…
Read More
ryantate
118
WFG News
February 13, 2015

Broker pulls commission data from listing site after MLS demand

Flat-fee Denver brokerage Trelora has pulled commission information from its public search site after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the local multiple listing service, REcolorado. Trelora stopped displaying the compensation rate and corresponding dollar value for buyer’s agents on specific listings on its site, search.trelora.com, on Thursday afternoon. It has also requested a meeting…
Read More
ryantate
156
WFG News
February 13, 2015

Coming Fed hike ups mortgage rate risk

After a wild six weeks from Christmas forward, the 10-year T-note stone-falling from 2.35 percent to 1.65 percent and then rebounding to 2 percent, global anxiety rising … this week’s news is an extended sermon from The Church of What’s NOT Happenin’ Now. Interest rates did not move. Low-fee mortgages…
Read More
ryantate
135
WFG News
February 13, 2015

Homebuyers are going mobile — is your website ready?

When the Internet was new, some real estate professionals embraced its potential right away, while others only gradually learned the mechanics of online content creation and lead generation. There’s a similar pattern at work now that mobile devices and high-speed broadband are available from most places in North America. My company’s…
Read More
ryantate
135
WFG News
February 13, 2015

5 superb tactics for capturing local real estate traffic

Need a little boost for your real estate digital presence? Here are five tactics you can start implementing right away that will help you get better results from your real estate website and blog. 1. Use rich snippets. Rich snippets are essentially a way to dress up your result in a Google…
Read More
ryantate
135
WFG News
February 13, 2015

Ben Caballero: ‘I think we’re more like a technology company that uses real estate’

The president of HomesUSA.com discusses how tech supports his business and why no secrets is the way to go. The post Ben Caballero: ‘I think we’re more like a technology company that uses real estate’ appeared first on WFG National Title Insurance Company.
Read More
ryantate
134
WFG News
February 13, 2015

In real estate, does size matter?

You can stop snickering now. I am referring to brokerage size. Our industry is changing at an astonishing and unprecedented rate. Behemoths are waging battles over data; established national brands are being overhauled; and it seems like every day, some new startup claims it will change the way real estate…
Read More
ryantate
149
WFG News
February 13, 2015

Michael Slavin: ‘The real power is to determine how money is spent’

Michael Slavin is the CEO at Privlo. Describe what you do in one sentence: I put dislocated homebuyers into homes at the most competitive rates. Age: 35 Degree, school: Accounting, University of Idaho Location: Los Angeles, California; Privlo is based in southern California, and we are currently lending in California, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Maryland, Tennessee,…
Read More
ryantate
150
WFG News
February 13, 2015

How to leverage Google’s new Twitter deal in your real estate business

If you’ve been looking for a reason to use Twitter for your real estate business, you may have just found one. In a deal reported by “Bloomberg Business” last week, Google has gained access to Twitter’s “firehose stream” of data. This means that Google will be able to immediately find…
Read More