From the February issue: Lavish parties, VIP tickets to sporting events, golf outings and occasional nights out at “gentlemen’s clubs” have defined New York’s title...

Members of the New York State Assembly are considering ways to regulate the title industry — but without the kind of strict rules imposed...

A TitleVest senior executive who alleges she was fired after reporting a pervasive bro culture at the title firm, is suing the insurer and...

If you thought title companies would lay low at last week’s REBNY gala in light of strict new rules governing their expense accounts, you...

The New York State Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that will allow title companies to resume buying clients coffee, taking them out for...

The nation’s most powerful title insurers descended on Albany on Friday for a showdown with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration over the industry’s penchant for...

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo stepped up his effort to crack down on title insurance companies in 2015, the industry dispatched a small army of...

Days after enacting — and then delaying — strict new rules to curb excessive marketing among title insurers, the state is investigating three companies’...

Time to dust off those VIP seats in the arena. Less than two days after enacting what title insurance players said were repressive rules...

Theirs isn’t a glamorous job, but title closers are present every time New York real estate trades hands. They transfer bank checks, transport documents...

Guess who’s coming to dinner? No one. If you could tune out the clinking glasses and the mutual pats on the back at Cooper-Horowitz’s...

A recent legal settlement between the federal government and a title insurance agency is drawing fresh attention to one of the murkiest, least understood...

Realogy Group — the parent company of Corcoran Group and Citi Habitats — is taking a bigger bite out of the title insurance business....

In an industry dominated by large players, upstart title insurance company OneTitle received approval from state regulators to slash its rates, the company told...

“Could I begin life again,” John Jacob Astor is said to have declared, “knowing what I now know, and had money to invest, I...

(Editor’s Note: This story first ran on March 24, 2016.) TRD Special Report: On December 10, 2013, regulators summoned the nation’s biggest title insurance...

TRD Special Report: On December 10, 2013, regulators summoned the nation’s biggest title insurance firms to 1 State Street. Much of the hearing focused...

Buyers of luxury Manhattan real estate, whose purchases are often shielded by limited liability corporations, will be thrust into the spotlight come March, when...

Title insurance companies, charged with revealing the identity of secret buyers of luxury real estate under a new government directive, are asking for limits...

As the state’s chief financial watchdog plans to step down, he leaves to his successor a decision regarding new controversial regulations on the title...