Reports from around the country

Even though HFS Corp.'s CEO Henry R. Silverman describes the company as continuing to be in "an actively acquisitive mode" after purchasing Century 21 and ERA, its emphasis may be shifting.

Real estate practitioners should be fingerprinted and subjected to background checks as a condition of licensing, according to 71 percent of the 319 readers who responded to our poll.

Realty World Holding Corp. has applied to take over a dormant Utah industrial loan charter and go into the consumer lending business. Also, news from relocation company mergers, Coldwell Banker, and Stewart Title Guaranty Co.