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When the Music Stops: FinCEN’s Residential Real Estate Rule Is Vacated — But the Game Isn’t Over

Tue Mar 31, 2026 by on Housing Market & News

Anyone who has played musical chairs knows the rules: the music plays, the players circle, and then abruptly… it stops. Those who find a seat are safe. Those who don’t are out. For the past eighteen months, FinCEN’s Residential Real Estate Rule has been the music. Title companies, settlement agents, and real estate attorneys have been the players, scrambling to […]

The Closing Table Goes Covert: How FinCEN’s New Residential Real Estate Rule Turns Title Companies and Attorneys into Government Intelligence Gatherers

Mon Mar 16, 2026 by on Housing Market & News

If you’ve been watching The Night Agent Season 3 on Netflix, in which FBI operative Peter Sutherland hunts a rogue FinCEN analyst across Istanbul while unraveling a money-laundering conspiracy tied to shell companies and Suspicious Activity Reports, you might be tempted to dismiss the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network as the stuff of spy fiction. It is not. As of March […]

Are Florida Real Estate Property Taxes On The Way Out?

Tue Dec 16, 2025 by on Housing Market & News

Are potentially eliminating or, in the alternative, drastically slashing Florida real estate property taxes beneficial to homeowners, home buyers, renters, and/or commercial real estate owners?  It really depends upon who you ask and how you analyze the potential ramifications should such legislation pass the Florida House, Senate, and us, the voters.  There are different proposals being discussed regarding the real […]