E-Closings: The Future of Real Estate Closings

August 7, 2017

The mortgage industry has been struggling since the implementation of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) Act to produce and deliver accurate documents to consumers on a significantly shortened timetable. It seems that adopting electronic closing (e-closing) procedures should have become mainstream procedure by now, yet it remains on the fringe of common practice. Consumers and investors have played a role in this delay, along with lenders themselves, despite the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's (CFPB) advocacy for using e-closing procedures. Why would the mortgage industry and its consumers resist a change that will produce more efficient closings with better accuracy?

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