Stock Report: Stewart Information Services Corp. (STC) Report Updated: May 20, 2013 | Print This Page

Stewart Information Services Corporation provides title insurance and real estate related services. It operates in two segments, Title Insurance-Related Services and Real Estate Information. The Title Insurance-Related Services segment engages in searching, examining, closing, and insuring the condition of the title to real property. It searches and examines documents, such as deeds, mortgages, wills, divorce decrees, court judgments, liens, paving assessments, and tax records, as well as provides title insurance for residential and commercial properties, undeveloped acreage, farms, ranches, and water rights. This segment serves attorneys, builders, developers, home buyers and home sellers, lenders, and real estate brokers and agents. The Real Estate Information segment offers products and services, which include loan origination and servicing support; loan review services; loss mitigation; real estate owned asset management; home and personal insurance services; Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 tax-deferred exchanges; and technology to support the real estate process. Its customers include mortgage lenders and servicers, mortgage brokers, mortgage investors, government entities, commercial and residential real estate agents, land developers, builders, title insurance agencies, and others interested in obtaining property information, as well as accountants, attorneys, investors, and others seeking services for their clients in need of qualified intermediary (Section 1031) services. The company operates primarily in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, central Europe, Mexico, Central America, and Australia. Stewart Information Services Corporation was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.