Fund News and Alerts

Need to Make a Change? You’ve got options! Accuair and TitleFusion now feature Fund integrations that make it easy for you to streamline your workflow and do business with us. Order products, policy jackets and CPLs without ever leaving the application! These are just two of the integrated software options available to you. Learn more about each software. Explore Your Options!

05/07/2025

As a result of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) most recent anti-money laundering effort, a new Residential Real Estate Rule (the Rule) will take effect on Dec. 1, 2025. Many closing agents in certain Florida counties are already familiar with the Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs) and have become accustomed to reporting certain cash purchases to FinCEN already. Beginning Dec. 1, 2025, all non-financed transfers to entities or trusts for residential real property in all U.S. states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, and Native American land are to be reported to FinCEN, and the reporting requirements under the GTOs will be eliminated. Read the article

05/01/2025

Meet these Marketplace vendors at the Fund Assembly Expo: Attorney’s Closing Services, Attorneys First Insurance, Bank United, Capital Bank, CASi, Elite Property Research, First Choice Surveying, Go Green Notaries, Old Republic Exchange, PropLogix, REAL RES, Reliable Lien Search, Skyline Title Support & TitleTap. Can’t make it? ☹ Visit the Vendor Marketplace today.

04/18/2025

Recommended Minimum Standards/Strongly Recommended Practices. We are constantly under attack by fraudsters who impersonate sellers, forge documents, steal transaction funds and much more. We thought it would be helpful to put all of our recommendations about steps you should take to prevent fraud and what you should do when you discover a fraud has occurred in one place. Here is a flyer with handy checklists on both.

04/18/2025

For decades, we’ve helped Members successfully close commercial deals throughout Florida. Regardless of your deal’s size or scope, the commercial experience, expertise, and services you need to get it done right are right here.

04/18/2025

By way of background, Florida’s homestead exemption laws have been compared by legal scholars and courts to a chameleon “which changes color to accord with the background against which it is viewed.” Crosby and Miller, Our Legal Chameleon: The Florida Homestead Exemption, 2 U. Fla. L. Rev. 12 (1949). Read the article

 

04/01/2025

You will not want to miss this year’s REC Luncheon at Fund Assembly featuring an intimate Q&A session with Tim M. Cerio, President, CEO & Executive Director of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. 

03/10/2025

Teach The Fund’s Condo Seminar

03/10/2025

Congratulations to the following new REC Leaders for 2025:

03/10/2025

Teach the Fund’s Condo Seminar

Last year, The Fund collaborated with Florida REALTORS® to create a 2-hour FREC-accredited seminar entitled Real Estate Agent's Guide to Florida’s Condo Safety Laws Post Surfside, and it has been a big hit. Since launching it in September, we have presented it to over a dozen local Realtor® associations and nearly 1,300 real estate agents. Now it’s your turn! 
 

03/10/2025