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Rick Vaughan

Executive Vice President, Product & Data Management

Strategic product management leader with a proven track record of exceeding goals across launch, growth and mature phases.

AccuTitle’s Data: What Trends Do We Expect for 2024?

AccuTitle’s Data: What Trends Do We Expect for 2024?

AccuTitle’s Data: What Trends Do We Expect for 2024 Navigating high interest rates, soaring prices, and dwindling inventory, the real estate market faces formidable challenges.   Let’s look at how these factors, and others, are impacting market trends.  Unlike other...

What’s New This Year for 1099-S Reporting

What’s New This Year for 1099-S Reporting

We say it every year: Where did the time go?  It seems one day it's the Fourth of July, then suddenly, its 1099 season.  We realize 1099 reporting is a thankless burden for all title agencies as most are required to report 1099 information to the IRS as well as...

AccuTitle’s Data: Where Are We Headed in Q3 2023?

AccuTitle’s Data: Where Are We Headed in Q3 2023?

The real estate market in the first half of 2023 was steady but not exciting. We experienced a less challenging market than Q3 or Q4 of 2022 but not the booming purchase and refinance market we experienced in the 2 years prior.

AccuTitle’s Data: Where Is the Industry Trending? ?

AccuTitle’s Data: Where Is the Industry Trending? ?

With Q2 2023 just around the corner, we are seeing a promising uptick in business! This is a welcome sign after the rough second half of 2022.  We are projecting a 12% increase in initiated purchase transactions in Q1 2023, compared to Q4 2022.  This comes on the...

Avoid the Annual 1099 Headache

Avoid the Annual 1099 Headache

Title agencies often start the new year with a headache. Not because of their New Year’s Eve celebrations but because it is 1099-S season. As I am sure you already know, title agencies1 are required to furnish all eligible sellers (“payees”) with a copy of the 1099-S...