All Cash Purchases Increase; VA's Final Rule for Vets to Avoid Foreclosure; HUD's Settlement with FNF Provides a RESPA Lesson

``The U.S. Census Bureau projected the Jan. 1, 2012, total United States population at 312,780,968. This would represent an increase of 2,250,129, or 0.7 percent, from New Year's Day 2011. In January 2012, one birth is expected to occur every eight seconds in the United States and one death every 12 seconds. Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person to the U.S. population every 46 seconds in January 2012. The combination of births, deaths, and net international migration result in an increase in the total U.S. population of one person every 17 seconds - something that originators and Realtors like to hear.''