Weston Title News

On March 1, 2026, FinCEN’s Residential Real Estate Rule went live requiring title companies, settlement agents, and real estate attorneys across the country to collect sensitive financial data at every qualifying non-financed residential real estate closing. Eighteen days later, a federal court in Texas struck the rule down. If that sounds like musical chairs, that is because it was. The […]

If you’ve been binge-watching Season 3 of Netflix’s The Night Agent, you already know that FinCEN—the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network—is having a moment in the cultural spotlight. In the show, a junior FinCEN analyst stumbles across suspicious activity reports linking dark money flows to a terrorist conspiracy that reaches the White House. He’s hunted, framed, and forced underground because he […]

How will the war in Iran affect the housing market? Current events, especially wars, always affect the housing market.  But not always in the same manner, with oil and trade disruptions,  a sense of uncertainty is pervasive, especially in terms of the economy.  That said,  mortgage interest rates  have already risen   from  5.99%  to 6.3% for  the 30-year fixed rate […]

Is it a Good Time to Refinance? With mortgage rates declining, and potential further reductions in 2026, more and more people are refinancing their mortgages. Average mortgage rates in 2025 decreased from about 7% at the beginning of the year to approximately 6% at year-end. Although it is unknown as to how low mortgage rates will go, there are factors […]