Kirk Helgeson has been named president of American Realty Advisors, succeeding Scott Darling. Helgeson will continue to serve as the firm’s CIO, chairman of its investment committee and leader of the firm’s... Read more »
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco) today announced the launch of a new $1 million Tribal Nations Program that provides critically necessary infrastructure funding grants... Read more »
Big Four title firm First American Financial believes the cybersecurity incident it incurred on Dec. 20, 2023, will have material impact on its fourth quarter 2023 financial results, according to a document... Read more »
Title insurance giant First American Financial reported progress on restoring its systems from a pre-Christmas cybersecurity incident. First American has fallen victim to data theft after a perpetrator exfiltrated data and encrypted... Read more »
More than a week after it shut down systems to combat a cybersecurity incident, title insurance giant First American Financial says it has restored some key systems and “contained the threat.” Though... Read more »
The nation’s second largest title insurer, First American, as well as some of its subsidiaries, remain offline as of Wednesday morning in the wake of the title firm’s Dec. 20 cybersecurity incident.... Read more »
First American Financial suffered a cyber attack on Thursday morning, forcing the title company to shut down its website and some of its systems. The company confirmed the attack in a website... Read more »
First American is the latest real estate firm to suffer a cybersecurity incident. Sources told HousingWire the incident occurred Wednesday afternoon, with First American confirming the incident Thursday morning. In a statement... Read more »
Unemployment keeps falling and home prices keep going up. It’s a great recipe for a strong housing market. Nothing has been able to stop the housing boom — not even higher interest... Read more »
California-based retail lender American Pacific Mortgage (APM) has named vice chairman Bill Lowman as its chairman of the board, succeeding APM founder Kurt Reisig. Lowman will continue his daily work as an... Read more »