A front page story in today’s Lowell Sun reminds us that an important provision of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) goe...

For about an hour early this morning the sky was blue and what we used to know as the sun popped up over the horizon, but that window slamme...

The real estate market may be slipping, but there’s still plenty going on at the registry of deeds. June will be a very busy month behind t...

The people at the Suffolk Registry of Deeds have been kind enough to lend us two document scanners for the next few months. The plan is to u...

Dodging the incessant rain showers this past weekend, I went for a walk through my Lowell neighborhood and observed that For Sale signs were...

Last week, while preparing old registered land documents for scanning, registry employees found portions of several newspapers from 1937 ...

Yesterday I traveled to Greenfield to attend a Registered Land Seminar organized by Franklin County Register of Deeds Peter Wood and his sta...

The National Association of Realtors is attempting to head off challenges from web-based real estate sale sites. The Realtors want to enact ...

I traveled to Beacon Hill today to join Lowell State Representative Kevin Murphy in testifying in favor of a bill he filed that would clarif...

This morning I had the unique opportunity to talk with Robert Cox, President of the Media Bloggers Association. You may remember last week I...

We’ve written about podcasting before and since it is an emerging technological trend, we’re writing about it again. The word “podcast” ema...

Back in 1999 we explored the role that a Geographic Information System might play at the registry of deeds. A Geographic Information System...

The increase in the number and significance of blogs is historic. Categorizing the event as historic is not an exaggeration. Blogs have fore...

Today’s Globe has a fascinating front page story that explains the arrest of a man who allegedly stole more than $400,000 from numerous bank...

Saturday was the annual “Doors Open Lowell” event. Approximately thirty people visited the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds despite the sog...

This is the third and hopefully last installment of this discussion of foreign language documents. Here is my attempt at the language of a ...

Perhaps it’s appropriate on Cinco de Mayo to revisit the issue of documents written in a foreign language. I wrote about our general policy ...

A few months ago I briefly blogged about “Podcasting” ...the latest phenomenon in audio broadcasting. If you haven't heard yet, a Podcas...

An attorney called yesterday with an interesting question: he had a deed from a foreign country, acknowledged by a notary in that country, w...

Located on the far end of our recording counter is the registry’s latest effort to provide information to the public. Last week we set up a ...