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Statement from First American Regarding Arizona Title’s Closure

avatarthumbnail.jpgOne (likely) final follow-up to the saga of Arizona Title.

First American Corporation, parent company to First American Title, issued a statement regarding the closure of Arizona Title’s offices. First American is going to be completing escrows started at Arizona Title.

“First American Title Insurance Company is the sole title insurance underwriter for Arizona Title and in that capacity, has assured state insurance regulators of its commitment to fulfill its duties and responsibilities and assist them as may be necessary or appropriate under the law to ensure that transactions involving the customers of these two companies, and the policyholders of First American, are successfully processed to completion.  As a first step, First American has set up a dedicated customer service center to field questions from existing customers of Arizona Title.  Customers with pending transactions may call 925-249-2819 to receive further information.

First American has had a long-standing relationship with Arizona Title and we regret that the current market conditions have forced them into this very unfortunate situation.”

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Arizona Title Escrows Being Handled by First American

avatarthumbnail.jpgAccording to an article posted last night on azcentral.com, escrows that were being processed at Arizona Title have been shifted to First American Title.

The article cited at Houston Chronicle article that said Mercury Cos., the parent company for Arizona Title here and United Title in Texas, had stopped the funding to force the closure.

United Title had 27 offices in Texas, Arizona Title has 15 offices here.

“This decision was precipitated by an unexpected, and in our opinion, unwarranted and unjustified act by our syndicate of banks, which deprived us of the cash we needed to sustain and to continue those operations,” the newspaper reported the Denver-based company said in a memo to employees Wednesday.

Both Arizona Title and United Title are subsidiaries of Mercury, which also owns title agencies in California, Colorado, Oregon and Nevada.

Title insurance ultimately was being handled by First American, thus the move to FATCO.

Mercury said it is coordinating with its underwriter, First American, “to ensure that all escrows are safe and all closings through the Arizona, Texas and California offices will take place,” the memo said.

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Slight Technical Difficulties on Bank Owned Homes

avatarthumbnail.jpgJust a quick heads up that we’re aware of the technical difficulties on the Bank Owned Homes page at the moment. You’re looking at the middle of the ocean because the software isn’t seeing any matching properties, which is a side effect of this week’s switch from Tempo to FlexMLS and the different data formats.

My IDX provider is aware of the issue and is working to get it fixed ASAP.

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Arizona Title Shuts Its Doors

avatarthumbnail.jpgConfirmed with two sources (as my journalism teachers always taught us) …

Arizona Title is no more. Called the Arrowhead Ranch office and the recording is the after-hours “we are closed” message. No clue what this means for those who have pending closings there but the guess is the escrows have come to a halt and will need to be restarted.

Rumors of the demise first started circulating yesterday and there was a chain of posts on Twitter asking the same question.

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Why I Can’t Help You Find a “Good” Area

avatarthumbnail.jpgNearly every buyer I encounter says they want a home in a “safe” or a “good” area. One put it to me that they want something upper-middle class.

Want to know why I can’t do that?

On July 18, 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against the real estate brokerage doing business as Re/Max East-West alleging discrimination on the basis of race and national origin in violation of the Fair Housing Act.

You can Read more here.

(h/t) to Downtown Morgan Brown at Blown Mortgage

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