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- The Millennial Closing Experience
- Powering Your Title & Escrow in a Digital World
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- How Doma Writes Declarative Code with Material UI
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- Building a Modern Data Stack at Doma
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- The Galactic Adventures of Mark V. Shaney
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- Doma Reaffirms Commitment to Diversity with Launch of Inaugural Impact Report
- Doma’s Kristie King Appointed to American Land Title Association Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Advisory Council
- Doma Named to Inc. Magazine’s Annual List of Best Workplaces for Second Consecutive Year
- Doma Recognized as Data Solution of the Year for Insurance by Data Breakthrough Awards
- Doma Recognized as Top Technology Innovator by HousingWire in 2022 Tech100 Awards
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- Doma Customer AdvantageFirst Closes Loans Up to 30 Days Faster by Leveraging Doma’s Instant Title Commitments
- Doma Brings Machine Learning Technology to Approximately 83% of US Residential Real Estate Market
- Doma to Report Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results on Wednesday, November 10th
- Doma to Participate in the D.A. Davidson 20th Annual Software and Internet Conference and the JMP Securities Fintech Forum: Artificial Intelligence
- Doma 2Q21 Earnings Call
- Doma to Participate in 3rd Annual Needham Virtual FinTech & Digital Transformation Conference
- Doma Holdings, Inc. To Report Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results On Thursday, August 12th
- Doma, the Company Architecting the Future of Real Estate Transactions, Completes Business Combination with Capitol Investment Corp. V
- Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation Selects Doma to Help Digitally Transform its Refinance Business
- Doma Customer F5 Mortgage Sees Instant Title Commitments in 86 Percent of Initial Orders
- Pennsylvania Land Title Association Convention
- Category: Press
- Lodasoft Integrates With Doma to Make Closings Simpler and Faster
- Three Powerhouse Women to be Nominated to Doma Board
- Doma to Participate in Bank of America’s Global Technology Conference and U.S. InsurTech Conference
- Doma to Participate in 11th Annual Deutsche Bank Global Financial Services Conference
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- Doma Holdings, Inc. Announces Date for First Quarter 2021 Financial Results Conference Call
- Doma Holdings, Inc. Announces Date for First Quarter 2021 Financial Results Conference Call
- Doma Expands Underwriting Capabilities in Texas
- Wells Fargo Taps Doma to Streamline the Refinance Process
- Doma Named One of Inc. Magazine’s 2021 Best Workplaces
- Doma Expands National Footprint; Brings Instant Home Closing to Key Markets
- Doma Appoints Financial Industry Veteran Matt Zames Chairman of Board of Directors
- Doma Announces Plans to Become Publicly-Traded
- States Title Raises $150 Million to Modernize Home Closing Experience
- States Title Continues East Coast Coverage Expansion, Bringing Frictionless Digital Mortgage Closings to New Jersey and Pennsylvania
- States Title Awarded Predictive Machine Learning Patent to Support Instant Real Estate Closing
- Study Reveals Real Estate Market Facing Stress Test – Go Digital or Die
- States Title Uses Machine Intelligence to Eliminate Human Review of Closing Documents
- States Title Raises $123 Million to Transform Real Estate Closings
- Galactic Mathematics Helps States Title Disrupt 143-Year Old Industry
- Intrepid Banker Adds Mortgage Lending Expertise to States Title
- States Title names Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers to Board of Directors
- Karen Richardson Joins States Title Board of Directors
- States Title Awarded Machine Intelligence Patent
- North American Title and Industry Innovator States Title Plan to Join Forces to Create a Leading Title Technology Business
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- The Property Survey: How it Benefits the Buyer and the Lender
- Reading the Preliminary Title Commitment in Texas
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- Real Estate Agents vs. iBuyers
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- Who Pays What? A Guide to Closing Costs
- Reading the Preliminary Title Insurance Report
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- Successful Closings
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- California Customary Closing Costs
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- Home Buyer Title and Escrow Process
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- Escrow Instructions and the Closing
- After the Signing and Closing
- Quick Guide to Property Taxes
- How to Lose Your Title in 50 Ways
- Title Insurance 101: How It Works and Why You Want It
- Escrow 101: What Homebuyers Need to Know About Escrow
- The Critical Protection of Title Insurance: How to Not Lose Your Home
- Issues that Need to Be Overcome Before a Mortgage Can Close
- Six Key Criteria for Mortgage Approvals
- Digital Closings Clear Final Hurdles
- Category: Lenders
- Ask the Expert Recap: A Diversified Pipeline is a Profitable Pipeline
- Webinar Recap: Balance White-Glove Member Service with Digital-First Mortgages
- Webinar Recap: Decrease Production Costs and Increase Customer Delight
- Building a Pipeline Flywheel for a Stronger Refinancing Business
- The Three Keys to Choosing the Right Title Company
- The Reason You’re Losing Loan Volume… and How to Fix It
- Doma Delivers Expert Title Service in Texas
- Three Keys to Choosing the Right Title Company
- Quick Guide to California Property Taxes
- The Three Keys to Choosing the Right Title Company
- The Mortgage Industry Has Spoken: 2022 Predicted to Bring Fewer Refis, More Digital Closings
- Grow Your Refi Business: 5 Proven Tactics to Win New Clients with Digital Marketing
- How Loan Officers Can Build a Personal Brand to Acquire and Retain More Customers
- Lenders Should Use Data to Decide Who to Lend to and When
- Lender onboarding process lays solid foundation for customer success
- Minority Homeownership Disparities Offer an Opportunity for Lenders
- Better Mortgage Experiences: Give Each File the Attention it Deserves
- Fintech, Proptech, and Insuretech: The Real Estate Triad of Change
- How Efficiency Helps Doma’s Customers to Unlock Margin Uplift
- The 411 on CSAT in the Residential Real Estate Mortgage Industry
- Supporting High-Net-Worth Clients: Title and Escrow, Hollywood-Style
- Make Instant Title Your New Advantage
- 6 Shortcuts to a 7 Day Close
- Human-Technology Collaboration in Customer Satisfaction
- Customer Service vs. Customer Success: Why Your Company Needs Both
- Three ways data analytics boosts lender margins
- 3 Things You Need to Know About Instant Underwriting
- Category: Real Estate Professionals
- 5 Must-Have Technologies for Real Estate Agents
- How to Reach Millennials and Baby Boomers for Real Estate Success
- California Preliminary Title Report Example
- CA Legislation Changes Create More, and More Accessible Housing
- 5 case studies that show how machine intelligence transforms traditional business practices
- eClosings: A 20-Year Journey to Implementation
- What are Data and Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence…
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Real Estate Pros’ COVID-19 Lessons
- Category: Title Agents
- Category: Writing on the Wall
- It’s a Wrap! NAT.com has moved!
- Three Reasons A Strong Closing Helps Grow Your Business
- Doma Partners with Local Charity Robyne’s Nest to Support At-Risk and Homeless High School Students
- Doma Appoints Former First American Financial Division Executive Scott Callender as Regional Managing Director of California
- The Opening Bell
- Architecting the Future of Home Buying
- Partnering to Capture Value in the Closing Process
- Introducing Doma’s Instant Closing Disclosure Solution
- Tackling the Fee Collaboration Conundrum
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FAQs
- When and where do I get my final proceeds check as a home seller?
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- Are there different types of title insurance?
- Why is transferring title to real estate different from transferring title to other items, such as a car?
- How does title insurance protect an investment if a claim should arise?
- What is title insurance?
- What is a customer satisfaction (CSAT) score, and why is it important in the mortgage, title, real estate, and settlement services industries?
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- What is a paperless transaction?
- What is the Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic (SECURE) Notarization Act of 2020?
- What is RULONA Section 14A?
- What is the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts (RULONA)?
- What is remote online notarization (RON)?
- What is electronic notarization (eNotarization):
- What is the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN)?
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- What is the Property Records Industry Association (PRIA)?
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- What is the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act (URPERA)?
- What are electronic recordings (eRecordings)?
- What is the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA)?
- What is a digital title closing?
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- What is an application programming interface (API)?
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- What is end-to-end encryption?
- What is Freddie Mac?
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- What are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)?
- What is the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)?
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- What is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)?
- What is nonpublic personal information (NPI)?
- What is an "attorney state"?
- Are there jurisdictional differences within the United States that affect title and escrow?
- What is the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule?
- What is the Truth in Lending Act (TILA)?
- What is the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)?
- What is the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO)?
- What is the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)?
- What is a guarantee fee (g-fee)?
- What is a loan origination system (LOS)?
- What is a foreclosure?
- What is a home equity line of credit (HELOC)?
- What is home equity?
- What is a cash-out refinance?
- What is a refinance?
- What is a jumbo mortgage loan?
- What is a conforming loan?
- What is a fixed-rate mortgage?
- What is an adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)?
- What is the HUD-1 Settlement Statement?
- What is the Truth in Lending (TIL) disclosure?
- What is the Good Faith Estimate?
- What is the Closing Disclosure?
- What is the Loan Estimate (LE)?
- What is a deed of trust?
- What is a mortgage?
- What is a notary block?
- What is a notarial act?
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- What is a limited power of attorney (LPOA)?
- What is a home appraisal?
- What is the American Land Title Association (ALTA)?
- What is a title agent?
- What is a title insurer?
- How large is the title and escrow industry?
- What is a title plant?
- What is fee collaboration?
- What are the components of the closing process?
- What are the steps involved in the title and escrow process?
- What is escrow?
- What is "vesting" as it relates to property ownership, and how does it affect your title coverage?
- What is a closing protection letter?
- How does title insurance differ from other types of insurance, such as car insurance?
- What is gap insurance?
- If title insurance is not paper, what is the "paper" you get?
- Can consumers shop around for title insurance?
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