Skip to the stories

/Independent trade coverage

TC Bulletin

The trade record for transaction coordinators

Every figure on this site is attributed to a named primary source, dated, and corroborated where vendor data is involved.

Reference

Virginia

Every story the desk has filed under this tag.

Coverage

2 stories filed under this tag.

Today9 min

Arizona notaries must take a thumbprint on deeds from 12 September

Senate Bill 1479, signed on 9 April, puts the signer's right thumbprint in the notary journal for any deed, deed of trust or power of attorney and raises the penalty for recording a forged or groundless claim to a class 5 felony. Virginia's settlement agents have owed a seller identity check since 1 July. The FBI issued its parcel owner impersonation alert on 16 June, and its 2025 real estate complaint count is up by a third.

Today8 min

Virginia lists 18 tasks an unlicensed assistant may do

The Real Estate Board's rewrite took effect on 1 April. What an unlicensed person may do now sits in a section of its own, 18VAC135-20-335, and the old line restricting pay to a rate not contingent on a transaction is gone. The Board gave no reason. The state association reads it as opening per-file pay.