Underwriting

Real Estate and Credit Woes Take Toll on Title Insurers: Report 

In some ways, the title insurance business isn’t really all that complex. Revenues depend primarily on just two inter-related factors: the level of house prices, and the demand for housing. And, of course, both are suffering in one of the worst housing corrections in U.S. history thus far — lower prices and shrinking demand have helped push transaction volumes down dramatically for anyone in the business of underwriting title insurance policies.