First American Completes Acquisition of RedVision

PUBLISHED: October 25, 2016 • 3 MINS READ

First American offers financial services through its Title Insurance and Services segment and its Specialty Insurance segment. The First American Family of Companies’ fundamental business lines includes title insurance and closing/settlement services, home warranty products, title and other real property records and images, title plant management services, valuation products and services, banking and investment advisory services, and property and casualty insurance.

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The California-based company serves homebuyers and sellers, loan originators and servicers, real estate experts, commercial property pros, home builders, and others involved in residential and commercial property dealings with products and services specific to their requirements. With experience dating back to 1889, the company provides its services and products through direct operations and a network of competent agents across the United States as well as worldwide. In 2015, First American achieved revenues of $5.2 billion and was also acknowledged in 2016 by Fortune® magazine as one of the 100 top companies to work for in America.

First American Sets Itself For The Future

First American has announced the acquisition of a New Jersey-based RedVision Systems, Inc., the biggest national provider of the title and real property research. RedVision applies data, technology, and managed services solutions to transform the procurement and processing of title information. The firm is renowned across the industry for its state-of-the-art, proprietary NOVA® and TitleVision2 technologies and the cascade of best-practice standardized Redi® products – ExamRedi®, SearchRedi®, ClearingRedi®, and CurativeRedi® to empower clients with SLA attainment, transaction cost savings, compliance and risk management. RedVision has been successfully examined against SOC 2 standards, named on HousingWire’s TECH100™, chosen as an American Land Title Association (ALTA) Elite Provider, and repetitively listed as one of the rapid-growing companies by Inc. The organization has delivered over 7.5 million title reports to 1600+ client organizations, comprising title underwriters, financial institutions, national agents, settlement service providers, local agents, attorneys, lenders, and foreclosure/default processing organizations.

“We’re excited to soon welcome RedVision to the First American family of companies. RedVision’s data, technology, and services complement First American’s existing title search and title evidence production and will further expand First American’s industry-leading position in title and property data,” said George Livermore, executive vice president of First American’s Data and Mortgage Solutions division, which will include RedVision. “RedVision’s nationwide title production platform, coupled with First American’s title and property data, and billions of recorded documents, will offer our customers unmatched quality, coverage, and operational flexibility.”

RedVision Welcomes The Change

The possession will let First American’s Data Trace group to leverage RedVision data to build extra title plants efficiently and rapidly. RedVision will become part of First American’s Data and Mortgage Solutions division and will function as a business unit under its management team, with CEO Brian Twibell continuing to head the business.

“We’re delighted with the opportunity to combine our technology, services and expertise with those of First American, a company known for its integrity, innovation and leadership in the title and settlement services industry. RedVision’s platform, now powered by industry-leading title and property data, will offer title evidence and packaged title reports with enhanced quality, accuracy, and efficiency,” said Twibell.

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