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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire's news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by Elissa Branch.

On today’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins sits down with Joel Rickman, the senior vice president of verification services at Equifax, where he serves as general manager for a $1 billion line of business. He has more than 20 years of experience with leading teams and previously served as the vice president of sales and marketing for Katabat.

Today, we’re talking all about verification services. Clayton and Joel discuss the behind-the-scenes work of income and asset verification in today's environment, the cybersecurity and fraud risks that lenders need to be paying attention to and the products that Workforce Solutions is focused on rolling out right now.

They also discuss the innovation and product improvement that lenders feel they need to move their mortgage lending business forward.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power-packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with industry playmakers. Click here **to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.**

Today we are dropping a special mini-episode into your feed!

Clayton sat down with UMortgage's VP of Marketing and 2023 HW Marketing Leader Corie Meredith to talk all things HousingWire Annual. Corie is joining us in Austin for this year's HousingWire Annual for a pretty power-packed session focused on the future of marketing, along with Marc Davidson from 1000watt, Amory Wooden from Anywhere Brands, and Debbie McGriff from Freddie Mac.

She gives us a little sneak peek of what great marketing insight she's bringing to the stage in October, including some interesting thoughts on the future of AI and automation in mortgage marketing.

See you in Austin!

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power-packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins sits down with Malte Kramer. Malte, who was a 2021 HousingWire Rising Star, is the founder and CEO of Luxury Presence, a marketing platform for real estate agents and teams. Luxury Presence is a 2021 HW Tech100 winner and one of the fastest-growing prop-tech companies in North America.

This episode follows on the heels of an exciting fundraising announcement for Luxury Presence, as well as the launch of a new product. Their conversation focuses on their fundraising, the product, the rationale behind it, and the problem that Malte and Luxury Presence are trying to solve for agents when it comes to marketing and design strategy. Clayton and Malte also venture into use cases for artificial intelligence and how professionals across the housing ecosystem should be thinking about AI in today's environment.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power-packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with industry playmakers. Click here **to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.**

On today’s episode, HW Media’s CEO Clayton Collins sits down with Lee Smith, the senior executive vice president and president of mortgage at Flagstar Bank. At Flagstar, Smith is responsible for the direction and oversight of all aspects of mortgage, including mortgage sales and originations, secondary and capital markets, mortgage fulfillment operations and mortgage servicing, as well as the strategic growth of the mortgage and servicing businesses.

Today, he and Clayton’s conversation is all about the banking industry, including discussion of increased regulatory oversight that could potentially start an even stronger consolidation wave, as well as current market dynamics and recent Fed actions. They also talk about the new Flagstar as it has evolved quite a bit in the last year through its merger with New York Community Bancorp and acquisition of some assets of Signature Bank.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power-packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today’s episode, HW Media’s CEO Clayton Collins sits down with Christina Panos, chief marketing officer at Corcoran. Christina is the architect of the company’s marketing and advertising program as well as the steward of the Corcoran brand. She is also a 2022 HousingWire marketing leader.

Their conversation today focuses on all things branding, marketing and building businesses in the real estate brokerage industry. She and Clayton discuss her role with Corocan, maintaining agent relationships through different channels and how to avoid the risk of forgetting fundamentals of professional relationships amid turbulent market conditions.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power-packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today’s episode, HW Media’s CEO Clayton Collins sits down with Carl Gish, co-founder and co-CEO of Aro Homes, a company that engineers and builds intelligently designed and sustainable carbon-negative homes faster and more efficiently than conventionally built homes. He brings to the table deep product, marketing and general management experience across leading brands and Fortune 500 companies as well as early-stage companies, including Dyson, eBay and Amazon.

Their conversation today is an opportunity to explore the role and the need of sustainable housing within today's housing crisis. They also talked about how Aro seeks to bring sustainable, design-driven homes to market that will save more than 11 tons of CO2 annually per home.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power-packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today’s episode, HW Media’s CEO Clayton Collins sits down with an industry figurehead who leads analysis, surveying and forecasting for the Mortgage Bankers Association: Marina Walsh. Marina is currently serving as the Vice President of Industry Analysis of the MBA and has served there for 22 years. As her career has spanned through multiple economic and housing cycles, she offers incredible insight, industry knowledge and analysis.

The conversation today focuses on profitability, homebuilders, and the mix between market share for depositories and independent mortgage banks. They also unpack the market for the remainder of 2023.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power-packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with the industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents The Secondary Market Master Class, presented in partnership with Polly. This four-part series is focused on all things capital markets and the role that the secondary and capital market teams play within their organizations and in the larger mortgage ecosystem.

Over the last three weeks, we've done a deep dive into the structure and complex relationships between the mortgage banking ecosystem and the secondary market. We talked about liquidity, team structures, technology stacks, and remaining agile. We even spoke to capital markets desk leaders to get a sneak peek into the role and strategic responsibilities of their teams inside of a mortgage bank.

Today, we bring you the final installment of the Secondary Market Master Class, featuring Adam Carmel, the founder and CEO of Polly. This final episode rounds up our series as HW Media CEO Clayton Collins explores Adam’s professional journey founding Polly, how the evolution of tech optimizes the agent experience, and what Adam thinks about the current state of the mortgage market.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices, and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with the industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today we welcome a special guest to the Housing News podcast, and someone whose name you might recognize: Bob Goldberg, the CEO of the National Association of REALTORS. He joins us today to chat about his retirement from NAR and show us a glimpse behind the scenes of that decision.

He and Clayton talk about the current housing market, some of the tough changes we’ve seen in the last year and a half and how that's impacting Realtors and home buyers alike. Bob also unpacks some of the ideas that he has for the housing ecosystem to make our industry even more resilient, sustainable and accessible for consumers.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power-packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with the industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents The Secondary Market Master Class, presented by Polly. This four-part series is focused on all things capital markets and the role that the secondary and capital market teams play within their organizations and in the larger mortgage ecosystem.

For this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins had the pleasure of chatting with two subject matter experts: Caroline Payne, Co-head of Capital Markets at Movement Mortgage and Greg Richardson, the Executive Vice President of Capital Markets at Primis Mortgage.

Last week, Polly Head of Product Jon Foy taught us that there is no “one size fits all” when it comes to capital markets roles and strategies. This week, we focus on first-hand testimonials while doing a deep dive into Caroline and Greg’s roles and their respective organization’s origination models, liquidity strategies, and quality control initiatives. They also talk about current market dynamics, technology, and partnerships with investors.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices, and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with the industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today we welcome to the show 50-year mortgage veteran David Lykken. David is the founder, president and chief transformational officer of Transformational Mortgage Solutions. He has been a frequent guest speaker on esteemed shows such as FOX Business News, CNBC and CBS Evening News, and hosts his very own “Lykken On Lending” podcast.

Clayton’s and David’s conversation focuses a lot on executive mindset, media strategy and the unusual similarity between mortgage banking and golfing. They also chat about being able to learn through and translate data to clients and audiences through narrative-driven storytelling, and even venture into the strange world of mortgage memes.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power-packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with the industry playmakers. Click hereto learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents The Secondary Market Master Class, presented by Polly. This four-part series is focused on all things secondary and the role that the secondary and capital market teams play in the larger mortgage ecosystem.

Today, we bring you the second installment of the Secondary Market series with a conversation between Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media and Jon Foy, Head of Product at Polly.

Their conversation focuses on process optimization, helping lenders be more successful with tech tailored specifically to them, the larger capital markets technology stack, and why it is so important to be agile in today’s market.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices, and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with the industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today we welcome Carrie Gusmus, the president and CEO of Aslan Home Lending. Carrie, who is a 2022 HousingWire Women of Influence Award winner, founded Aslan four years ago — just six months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

In this conversation, she and HW Media CEO Clayton Collins explore the vision behind Aslan’s hybrid lending model. Carrie describes how she will build her team through recruiting loan originators and increasing production volume. They also chat about technology, marketing strategies and the importance of mentorship.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices, and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with the industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents The Secondary Market Master Class, presented by Polly. This four-part series is focused on all things secondary and the role that the secondary and capital market teams play in the larger mortgage ecosystem.

Throughout this series, listeners will develop a deeper understanding of the lender and investor relationships, how lenders can become more agile with optimized tech stacks, and the impact of innovation on the broader housing market and stakeholders.

Today’s episode is the first installment of the Secondary Market series and features a conversation between Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media and Parvesh Sahi, Chief Revenue Officer at Polly.

Their conversation looks at the mortgage lender and investor relationship, how they work together to fund the housing market, and the technology they are using to help eliminate gridlock and make the industry increasingly efficient.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices, and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with the industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today we venture into the manufactured housing space with guest Robbie Pratt, the CEO and co-founder of Havenpark Communities, an operator and developer of manufactured housing communities since 2016.

During the conversation, Robbie talks through the types of communities that Havenpark is investing in and helping build, the difference between manufactured and stick-built housing and overcoming the stigma of manufactured homes. He also chats about housing trends at large and why he thinks affordable, manufactured homes are important in our current market.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices, and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with the industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today our guest is Simon Moir, the VP of Banking Compliance Solutions at Wolters Kluwer, where he is responsible for overseeing the growth and development of the segment’s banking compliance product portfolio as well as their open digital lending platform and expert solutions ecosystem. Simon has more than 20 years of experience delivering innovative, highly scalable solutions to the banking and financial services industry.

In today’s conversion, Clayton and Simon chat about AI and the somewhat tense relationship between this innovative technology and regulatory powers. They also talked about the fintech world and the changing dynamics with valuations in the M&A space, including the way that investors are thinking about investing in and backing these tech companies in the future.

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HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices, and meet industry leaders. Our agenda is power packed with content to propel your company to the next level and connect you with the industry playmakers. Click here to learn more!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents The Wholesale Market Master Class, presented by BeAMortgageBroker.com.This four-part series is focused on all things wholesale and the role that the wholesale market plays in the mortgage ecosystem.

Our expert this week is Mike Walton, Director of Wholesale Development at United Wholesale Mortgage. Mike works to grow the wholesale mortgage channel to new heights by engaging consumers, financial institutions, and budding entrepreneurs with the hopes of bringing awareness and support to those who want to explore opportunities in wholesale.

In today’s conversation with Mike, we cover common paths and professional backgrounds that lead to becoming a mortgage broker, the decision between opening a new brokerage vs. joining an established and scaled broker shop, the business model of running a brokerage and the vibrant community of brokers coast to coast.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today’s guest is John Paasonen, the CEO and co-founder of Maxwell, a venture-backed startup focused on making the mortgage experience simple, human and intuitive. Dedicated Housing News listeners might recall John’s appearance on the show back in December 2022 to have an entrepreneur-to-entrepreneur conversation with Clayton about Maxwell and his business strategy.

In today’s conversion, Clayton and John discuss a lot of the fascinating data and client interactions that John sees across his business, the capital markets challenges in the current housing market, and the struggling interest rates and inventory relationship. The two also dive into somewhat of a niche topic — defects in loan quality.

And in light of their previous conversation, they revisit leadership strategies and how the best executives in housing can lead their organization to achieve great things even as they navigate tough housing cycles.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents The Wholesale Market Master Class, presented by BeAMortgageBroker.com.This four-part series is focused on all things wholesale and the role that the wholesale market plays in the mortgage ecosystem.

This week we have the pleasure of speaking to Jason Bressler, the chief technology officer at United Wholesale Mortgage. With 24+ years of IT experience, Jason leads more than 1,300 information technology professionals and manages the strategy and implementation of technology to increase information accessibility and integrated systems management.

Today’s conversation focuses on technology and digital adoption in the mortgage industry, the innovation and adoption wave in wholesale for brokers, the strategic mindset to building a broker tech stack for new and existing brokers and the role AI is playing in building a more efficient and elastic origination ecosystem.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, we have the pleasure of speaking to Vikas Gupta, a longstanding entrepreneur and the CEO of Azibo, a unified financial and property management platform for independent real investors. Vikas has over 15 years of experience in the development of early-stage tech startups, including Nodabl, the Baby Box Co., Factual Inc., and many more. Now, through Azibo, he’s helping landlords and investors and holding impactful real estate conversations on his own podcast, Hacking Real Estate.

Today’s conversation is all about the rental market. Clayton and Vikas work through rental data trends that his team at Azibo are seeing through their platform. The platform tracks transactions being made and gives them a glimpse into the health of the rental market.

This episode offers vital information about building a technology software and financial services solution in the housing industry. It also offers incredible insights from the CEO of a software platform in the housing sector to help better understand the health of the rental market.

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!
The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents The Wholesale Market Master Class, presented by BeAMortgageBroker.com.This four-part series is focused on all things wholesale and the role that the wholesale market plays in the mortgage ecosystem.

For this week’s installment, we welcome two separate guests, Justin Brown and Jennifer Gormer, to discuss building successful careers and businesses in the wholesale mortgage arena. Justin Brown is the broker/owner of the NuHome Team doing business in the Los Angeles market. Jennifer Gomer is the president and CEO of Integrity Home Lending in Dallas, Texas.

During their conversations, Jennifer and Justin go into their respective career launch points into the mortgage industry and some of the impactful decisions — and mistakes — made along the way. They also talk about how to best use the right technology and tools to maximize brokerage growth and how they get outside of the brokerage walls to get involved in their communities.

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!
The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, our guest is the co-founder and executive director of FirstHome IQ, Kristin Messerli. She is also the founder of Cultural Outreach, which is now part of the National Association of Minority Mortgage Bankers of America (NAMMBA), and is a leading strategist and keynote speaker on the topic of next-gen housing and the psychology of money.

Clayton and Kristin’s conversation for this episode is focused on her most recent 2023 Gen Z Homebuyer Report. They also talked about the 2023 NextGen Women's Homebuyer Report which talks about some of the challenges and opportunities of female homeowners and homebuyers in today's housing market.

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!
The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents The Wholesale Market Master Class presented by BeAMortgageBroker.com This four-part series is focused on all things wholesale and the role that the wholesale market plays in the mortgage ecosystem.

Throughout the series, listeners will develop a deeper understanding of the role that wholesale plays in the mortgage ecosystem, how to build your career in the wholesale channel, tech adoption in the industry, and more.

The first installment of this series features a conversation between Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media and Desmond Smith, Chief Growth Officer at United Wholesale Mortgage, where he spends his time focusing on innovative ways to advance the independent mortgage broker channel.

In today’s conversation, the two discuss the role that wholesale plays in the mortgage ecosystem, recent and historical trends, and some of the common myths and misperceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker.

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!
The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

For today's episode, Clayton is joined by Steve Ozonian, the CEO of Williston Financial Group. Steve is a longtime real estate executive with a range of entrepreneurial and leadership experience, including board involvement at LendingTree, Attom Data Solutions, Inside Real Estate, and most recently, LoanDepot. In this conversation, they discuss some really important topics, including leading through the inevitable cycles in the housing industry and connecting the housing sector across mortgage origination, real estate brokerage, and title. They also talked about planning long-term growth strategies while also weighing the options between organic and acquisitive growth.

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!
The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents the Modern Mortgage Origination Master Class, a four-part educational series presented by Zillow Home Loans. This educational series features four classes designed to bring the HousingWire community expert-level knowledge on modern mortgage origination and how today’s homebuyer navigates the homebuying process.

This final installment of this series features a conversation between Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media and Tim Swank, Zillow Home Loans’ Vice President of Mortgage Sales and Real Estate Partnerships. Tim has more than 15 years of experience in the mortgage and lending industry where he has held a variety of positions from his early days as a mortgage banker to executive roles focusing on sales and partnerships.

In today’s conversation, they recap what we’ve learned in the past three master class episodes and then discuss what homebuyers want from their lender and how consumer expectations are changing — or not — throughout the modern mortgage process.This includes some of the current needs and expectations from a consumer perspective, how lenders can best engage with borrowers, and how Zillow’s tools and resources can make it easier to get started.

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Master Class: Modern Mortgage Origination
HousingWire’s Youtube Channel

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler joins Clayton Collins to discuss and digest primary takeaways and learnings from the Mortgage Bankers Association Secondary and Capital Markets Conference hosted this week in New York City.

The episode shifts to an exclusive interview between Sarah Wheeler and Mike Fratantoni, MBA's chief economist and senior vice president of research and industry technology. Mike shares his forecasts for the remainder of 2023, as well as insights on mortgage rates, inflation, home prices, origination volume and more. The full interview initially with Mike Fratantoni aired on the HousingWire Daily Podcast.

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Check out the HousingWire Daily Podcast
Why are regulators piling on during this down market?
Mortgage industry still in the middle of a storm
HousingWire’s Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!
The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents the Modern Mortgage Origination Master Class, a four-part educational series presented byZillow Home Loans. This educational series features four classes designed to bring the HousingWire community expert-level knowledge on modern mortgage origination and how today’s homebuyer navigates the homebuying process.

This week’s episode features a conversation between Tracey Velt, Senior Director of data and content for HW Media, and two guests: Racquel Russell, Zillow’s Vice President of Partner Strategy and Operations, and Jason Mitchell, founder of the real estate team brokerage The Jason Mitchell Group.

In today’s conversation, they focus on how agents and lenders should be partnering to win for their clients, including how and where prospective buyers should start their homeownership journey, where consumers should start with financing, and some tips for agents selecting a lender. They also unpack some of the benefits and common misconceptions surrounding digital lenders, and how agents can best help prep consumers for the transaction process.

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Connect with Jason on LinkedIn
Master Class: Modern Mortgage Origination
HousingWire’s Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!
The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, we welcome Alex Villacorta to the Housing News podcast. Alex is currently the Chief Data Officer and co-founder at ResiShares, a residential real estate investment management firm. Before ResiShares, Alex held positions focusing on data and analytics at both HouseCanary and Clear Capital.

Clayton and Alex cover a lot of ground during their conversation, including Alex's professional background, how he's developed his valuation and data expertise over the years, and how he's currently working to apply that data to the investment decisions at ResiShares. They also talk about how other companies in the housing ecosystem should be viewing ResiShares's innovative model and some of the predictions that Alex is making for 2023 and beyond — including how AI is emerging as a dominant technological force in valuation.

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Resi Wrap - Top Ten Surprises of 2023
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

HousingWire presents the Modern Mortgage Origination Master Class, a four-part educational series presented by Zillow Home Loans. This educational series features four classes designed to bring the HousingWire community expert-level knowledge on modern mortgage origination and how today’s homebuyer navigates the homebuying process.

This episode features a conversation between Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media and Amanda Pendleton, Zillow’s Home Trends Expert. Amanda works to translate Zillow's housing market data into actionable advice for homeowners, prospective homebuyers and housing professionals.

The conversation focuses on current home-buying trends informed by data from Zillow, including demographic trends around age, stage of life and gender. Amanda shares data and expertise on what the modern homebuyer expects from their lender, strategies real estate agents and loan originators can employ to better serve clients, how homebuyers are confronting affordability challenges and some surprising tactics home sellers can deploy to maximize the value of their home.

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Connect with Amanda on LinkedIn
Master Class: Modern Mortgage Origination
Gender gap widens: Growth trend reverses for young single women homeowners | Zillow
The home improvement projects spring sellers should tackle now (and what to skip) | Zillow
She sheds, steam ovens can help sell homes for up to $17,400 more | Zillow
HousingWire’s Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!
The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, we're bringing you a crossover episode to your feed straight from the RealTrending podcast hosted by Tracy Velt, Senior Director of Data and Content for Housing Wire and RealTrends. This is a conversation between Tracey and Steve Capezza, the president of Side Real Estate. Steve joined Side earlier this year after a several years-long career with Zillow.

We wanted to highlight this episode this week because the conversation really lifts the veil on how the real estate sales model is evolving and how top participants and professionals and real estate are consuming more market share each and every year. Steve also talks about the power behind a teamerage and what brokers should understand about the model. And — he gives a sneak peek into what he'll be speaking about at this year's Gathering of Eagles on June 18-21st in Austin, Texas.

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Side’s Steve Capezza on driving real estate team growth
Connect with Steve on LinkedIn
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

We are dropping a special episode in your feed — the first of a four-part master class series presented by Zillow Home Loans. This series will feature experts from Zillow and across the housing industry who offer insights and strategies you can use today to best navigate today’s rapidly evolving mortgage market.

Today’s episode is a conversation between Clayton Collins and Orphe Divounguy, Ph.D., a senior economist for Zillow Home Loans and a member of Zillow’s Economic Research team. Orphe’s research focuses on housing and labor markets, and quantitative methods for policy evaluation.

Orphe and Clayton unpack the current dynamics that buyers and sellers are seeing, some of the common public misconceptions about rates, and how affordability challenges and other driving forces are impacting the average homebuyer. They also chat about creative alternatives to traditional financing — and how agents should be seeing these alternatives as an opportunity to better serve consumers.

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Home buyers see first signs of affordability relief in months | Zillow
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Buyers are in the game, but interest rates are keeping sellers on the bench | Zillow
Prospective home buyers spend about as much time researching new TVs as they do mortgage lenders | Zillow
Affordability Calculator - How Much House Can I Afford? | Zillow
A Trusted Lending Partner for Agents | Zillow Home Loans
CriticalChoices AchievingHomeownership
Connect with Orphe on LinkedIn
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!
The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On this episode of Housing News, we welcome a reoccurring HW Media face — Mike Simonson, the founder and president ofAltos Research. During the conversation, he gives Clayton a glimpse into the data that he is seeing during this really pivotal first week of May 2023, shares his summer 2023 forecast, and talks about where he thinks will end the year in terms of total active listings.

He also gives Clayton some lessons on how we can best use data to understand what's happening in the housing market for agents, LOs and investors and also shed some light on some misconceptions and ways that people often use real estate and housing data incorrectly.

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Connect with Mike on LinkedIn
Mike on Twitter
Altos Research
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, we welcome Leigh Brown, President of the NC Association of Real Estate and the Broker/Owner of One Community Real Estate. She's been in the real estate industry for over 20 years and is involved in a lot of facets of the industry and is probably a familiar face and voice to many of you, including those who listen to her Crazy Shit in Real Estate podcast.

In today's conversation, Clayton focuses on some of the expertise that Leigh has built through her years as a real estate broker, what she's learned from her podcast, and some of her learnings as being involved in the National Association of Realtors and other trade organizations and events across the industry.

Leigh is a great speaker and delivers information in a very entertaining and informative way — that's why we're bringing her to the stage this summer at the Gathering of Eagles in Austin, Texas. You can find out more info about RealTrend's Gathering of Eagles here to learn more and register your spot!

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Connect with Leigh on LinkedIn
Leigh Brown
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week, we have the pleasure of welcoming Gil Arbitsman, the Chief Financial Officer at UMortgage, to the Housing News podcast. For those of you that aren't familiar with the UMortgage, it's Anthony Casa's new mortgage origination shop — which Clayton got the chance to chat with Anthony about back in December of last year. Gil is also a 2023 HW Finance Leader Awardee.

But this week, the conversation with Gil takes a different approach to look at a lot of the overlooked operational considerations of business development and marketing. Clayton and Gil talk about the financial considerations of growing, acquiring and recruiting in a tough market, really getting a glimpse into it from a top-notch finance leader who has a true focus on growth.

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Connect with Gil on LinkedIn
UMortgage
UMortgage to acquire brokerage firm NXT
Former Guaranteed Rate SVP Ravi Patel and team join UMortgage - HousingWire
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, Clayton had the pleasure to speak with Nick Bailey, the CEO and President of RE/MAX. They talk about the record-low inventory we've seen in March and April, recent happenings in the M&A space, and the importance of moving quickly on integrations in decisions shortly after an acquisition, both on the tech side as well as in the real estate brokerage ecosystem. They also get into how we should be viewing the national housing market versus the local markets, and why it is so important to focus on attracting productive agents.

This episode is also coming to your feed shortly after the launch of this year's RealTrends brokerage rankings, where REMAX had 63 firms in the top 500 nationwide brokerages with over 255,000 sides and a sales volume exceeding $111 billion. Be sure to check out the full RealTrends 500 Brokerage Rankings here!

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Connect with Nick on LinkedIn
RE/MAX
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week's episode follows right the back end of the Mortgage Banker's Associate's Technology Solutions Conference, so we couldn't think of a more appropriate time to drop Clayton's great interview with the chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association and President of Colliers Mortgage, Matt Rocco.

Clayton and Matt talked about how quickly the market is changing, how that flows to impact banks, and how that then flows to impact loan officers. Given Matt's strong background in multifamily and commercial real estate, their conversation takes an approach that connects what's happening in the rental market and how that impacts the single-family homeownership market.

They also take a look at the MBA's current role in the real estate market, and current commercial real estate outlooks with specific consideration of the recent news about GSE credit loss preparation.

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Connect with Matt on LinkedIn
Mortgage Banker's Association
Colliers Mortgage
MBA's Technology Solutions Conference
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, our guest is a mortgage industry veteran and entrepreneur who might be familiar to many of you: Dave Savage, Chief Innovation Officer at TrustEngine & Co-founder of Mortgage Coach. Dave has joined us many times over the years in a variety of HW Media content, including being a 2022 HW Vanguard and being a recurring awardee on our Tech 100 Mortgage List.

Clayton and Dave's conversation hopes to bring a fresh, new angle of Dave's usual expertise. They talk about some current market dynamics, about how some new loan officers don't get it — and how the seasoned ones forgot it. They also go into dissecting the modern sales process and building trust in the type of information that LOs should be sharing at different points in the origination process.

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Connect with Dave on LinkedIn
TrustEngine named to HousingWire's 2023 Tech100 Mortgage List
Unleash Your Creativity to Conquer this Challenging Market with Dave Savage
Mortgage Coach
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week, we are bringing a phenomenal guest to your feed: Marc King, the president of Keller Williams. Marc has a long history in the real estate industry, with his previous role as director of growth for Keller Williams, and as a top-producing sales associate when he joined a Missouri-based Keller Williams franchise as a team leader all the way back in 2003.

Clayton and Marc talk and discuss an array of topics, including how realtors fulfill roles comparable to financial advisors, why agent count matters in a cyclical business, and how to balance technology among differing agent preferences. They also give a sneak peek into the soon-to-be-released 2023 RealTrends brokerage rankings, where Keller Williams fell on that list, and unpack some of the data released on Keller William's 2022 Year-End Results. Additionally, Marc gives listeners some insight into where he hopes to bring the company in the coming years.

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Connect with Marc on LinkedIn
Keller Williams
Keller Williams Reports Year-End Results
2023 RealTrends Brokerage Rankings
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week, Clayton had the pleasure of sitting down with Tom Davis, the Chief Sales Officer of Deephaven Mortgage, where he works very closely with wholesale and correspondent sales leaders, as well as clients. Prior to joining Deephaven, Tom served as Executive Vice President, Head of TPO Production at First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation.

During their conversation, Clayton and Tom do a deep dive into the housing market, inventory, inflation, and a brief conversation about the health of the US banking system, including the recent debacle at Silicon Valley Bank. They also talk about the non-QM dynamics that Deephaven has learned from the capital markets disruption over the past three years.

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Connect with Tom on LinkedIn
Deephaven
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today's episode is all about "The Great Renovation" that is happening in 15 million vacant homes in the US, and the investors — particularly Gen Z — that are buying these properties, adding value, and bringing them back to the market for sale or as rentals.

Clayton got to sit down with Kurt Carlton, the President and co-founder of New Western, a real estate investment marketplace that helps investors find homes to rehab. Kurt unpacks all the activity that he's seeing from investors that are buying and adding value to homes all across the US. They also talk about the related problems that investors are facing that are plaguing the larger housing ecosystem, including increased labor and material costs.

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Connect with Kurt on LinkedIn
New Western
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today's episode, we have a really great conversation between Clayton and Neel Dhingra, the Chief Executive Officer at Forward Academy, mortgage banker at All Western Mortgage, and social media extraordinaire.Neel talks about how he grew his business using social media and how he went from being 35 and drowning in debt with a failed business to now being a millionaire with a successful business at 40. He also explains why the company we keep can affect your success and also what he learned as an originator in 2022.

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Forward Academy
All Western Mortgage
Connect with Neel on LinkedIn
Follow Neel on Instagram
HousingWire's Youtube Channel

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today's episode features a great conversation with Brian Webster, the president of NotaryCam. Brian goes into his incredible background that starts from Freddie Mac to the CFPB to Wells Fargo and then, finally, into the FinTech ecosystem.

Clayton and Brian also talk about the impact that Brian has had on the industry through his role in the development of TRID, his thoughts about M&As, corporate strategy and how the right leadership approach can accelerate growth and business outcomes for tech and lending leaders.

Also, tune in to hear Clayton geek out over his passion for innovation in deal-making!

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NotaryCam's website
Connect with Brian on LinkedIn
HousingWire's 2023 Rising Stars

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today's episode of the Housing News podcast, Plaza CEO Kevin Parra shares how his career as a mortgage lending executive has shaped the actions he is taking to prepare his business for 2023 and beyond. The conversation focuses on cost-efficient lending, focusing on single-channel strategies and building cultures that support recruiting and retaining the best people.

Kevin addresses some of the industry's biggest challenges including reducing headcount to match the volume and capacity curve, mortgage rate lock-down issues, and homebuyer affordability. Clayton and Kevin also uncover opportunities in buydown programs, renovation lending, and adjusting strategies to win market share.

The conversation with Parra spotlights the benefits of experience and a steady hand when economic indicators are opaque.

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Inside mortgage lenders’ strategies for 2023
Inflation cooled again in January in a bumpy downward trend
Housing Market Tracker: Inventory drops as mortgage rates move higher
Rate lock activity rose sharply from December’s depths

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

Be sure to check out our Youtube channel here for special behind-the-scenes content and video versions of HW Media podcasts!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week we are bringing you an extra special episode of the Housing News podcast! Earlier this week, HousingWire hosted a virtual economic summit which we dubbed the Housing Market Update. We brought together a handful of the most forward industry thinkers and analyst to share some of the most relevant and thoughtful data and insights we should all be looking at as we head into 2023. They unpack rising mortgage rates, housing inventory, the biggest threats to the housing market and much more.

This episode brings you the most important points from this session from housing folks you probably recognize, including HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami, Bright MLSChief Economist Lisa Sturtevant, Altos Research President Mike Simonsen, First American Deputy Chief Economist Odeta Kushi, and SalesforceGlobal Head of Mortgage & Lending, Geoff Green.

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The looming housing market recession
Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast
Daren Blomquist’s 2023 housing outlook
Debunking the housing inventory myth in preparation for 2023
The state of the homebuilding market

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

Be sure to check out our Youtube channel here for special behind-the-scenes content and video versions of HW Media podcasts!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today's episode of the Housing News podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Todd Carpenter, who has had an extensive and successful career in real esate technology. Most recently the Director of Strategic Investments at NAR, Todd now writes his own blog at todd.re and works freelance with real estate and technology firms.

Clayton and Todd talk about how the rise of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT might disrupt the real estate industry in the future and also dive into the rumored deal that News Corp may sell Move, Inc. to CoStar. They also talk about some of Todd's writing on trends that he's seen over the years in both technology and proptech in real estate.

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Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!

Be sure to check out our Youtube channel here for special behind-the-scenes content and video versions of HW Media podcasts!

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today's episode, Igor Popov is joining us to dissect and discuss trends in the rental market. Igor is the Chief Economist and Head of Analytics over at Apartment List and he and Clayton talk all things rental housing market data derived from the most recent national rent report by Apartment List, including rent growth data in 2022 and how remote work will most impact the rental market in specific spots across the country.

They also dive deep into the rental pricing and demand trends that began to form in Q3 of 2022 and how these trends are shaping Igor's predictions for 2023.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, Clayton had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Daren Blomquist, the VP of Market Economics at auction.com. Daren has been around this space for quite a while and analyzes and forecasts complex macro and microeconomic data trends, with his works being cited in major publications such as The New York Timesand The Wall Street Journal.
For this episode, we invited Daren to talk about a really unique and not often talked about perspective derived from the auction.com platform to help us better understand buyer behavior and what we anticipate will happen in the retail housing market.

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Daren Blomquist's 2023 housing outlook
Top of Mind: Getting Smart on the Distressed Housing Market with Daren Blomquist

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Our wonderful guest today brings to the table 23 years of experience in operating businesses in the mortgage technology ecosystem. In this episode, Dan Sogorka, the president and CEO of Sagent, sits down with Clayton to talk about private equity, venture capital and some of the current opportunities for dealmaking and consolidation in the mortgage tech space.

They also talk about the impacts of fintechs, technology's relationship with mortgage servicing, some of the trends that have happened over the last few years and much, much more!

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today's episode of Housing News, we have the pleasure of welcoming two great guests from CoreLogic: John Rogers, the Chief Innovation Officer, and George Gallagher, a Principal of ESG & Climate Change, Natural Hazard and Spatial Solutions.

This episode is focused on all things climate and climate risk. The three unpack all the things that lenders, businesses, homeowners and other real estate owners need to understand about climate risk, both now and in the future. They also share where in the US they would not live based on some of the risk profiles based on CoreLogic's data.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

To close out 2022, this week we are bringing you a fascinating, in-depth conversation with Victoria DeLuce, the Senior Vice President of Business Development and Capital Markets Thought Leader at Delmar Mortgage. Victoria does an incredible job at bringing her capital markets expertise and her understanding of rates data to originators to help interpret where the market is going.

She and Clayton also talk a lot about hedging works, recent Federal Reserve news, and some of the data points that Logan Mohtashami and Mike Simonsen are watching very closely as we go into 2023.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

For today's Housing News episode, we are bringing you a crossover from the HousingWire Daily podcast featuring Brian Covey, the EVP of Strategy and Development at Revolution Mortgage and a regular face at HW Media engagements. After his professional soccer career, Covey was a high-profile vice president at loanDepot who left the companyafter five years to join Revolution Mortgage.

Brian joins HW Media Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler to talk about Revolution’s lending model, how LOs and brokers can succeed in this market, and how he builds high-performing teams. And, most importantly, Brian also shares some of his perspectives on the World Cup and the incredible match that we saw this past weekend.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team

Today's Housing News guest is Anthony Casa, the president and CEO at UMortgage to talk in-depth about an acquisition that UMortgage announced this very morning.

Clayton and Anthony also talk about their communication and M&A strategy, the way that he has evolved and attracted people as a leader over the years, and shares some strategy tips about how to recruit the next generation of talent in the mortgage industry.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today we have the pleasure of bringing you a crossover episode from our recently acquired Altos Research's Top of Mind Podcast. On the show, Mike Simonsen, Altos President, interviews experts from across the real estate ecosystem on housing data trends and other happenings in the industry.

For this episode, Mike interviews Rick Palacios, the Director of Research and a Managing Principal at John Burns Real Estate Consulting. Rick was an incredible Housing News guest this past spring, so we are really excited to bring you this episode from the Top of Mind podcast. Mike and Rick talk about trends from the latest builder survey by John Burns, what surprised Rick in 2022, home price projections for 2023, what headlines are getting wrong, and much more!

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today's episode, Clayton has the pleasure to speak with Katherine Campbell, the Chief Digital Officer at Assurance Financial, a veteran in the financial services industry and a core part of the HousingWire community as one of our 2022 Marketing Leaders.

Clayton and Katherine do a deep dive into the digital roadmap that she's been running since 2018, including the different iterations and what it has enabled for the culture and efficiency at Assurance Financial. They also talk about the industry's transition to the consumer-direct model.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

For today's episode, we are bringing to the Housing News audience first a very special announcement about an acquisition that we've made at HW Media that is going to be really transformative across the HW Media brand and the housing news industry. We are really excited to bring on the CEO of the business who is joining our leadership team to help build out this mission, Mike Simonsen ofAltos Research.

This episode is a very special behind-the-scenes look into a conversation between Mike and Clayton about Altos's housing data and analytics and how the partnership will help housing professionals be more impactful and more efficient.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

For today's episode, we have Josip Rupena, the founder and CEO of Milo, a mortgage lender that's focused on serving foreign buyers in the US as well as offering a crypto-backed mortgage product.

Clayton and Josip talk about the background of crypto-backed mortgages and exactly how they work with backing the purchase of real estate. They also go into some of the crypto risks that are created and intersected by the rapid changes in the US housing market amid the downfall of BlockFi and FTX.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team

In today's episode, Clayton had a fantastic opportunity to talk with fellow entrepreneur and operator in the mortgage ecosystem, John Paasonen, the co-founder and CEO at Maxwell.

Clayton and John do a deep dive into the evolution of Maxwell over the years, from the strategies that were involved on day one and the parts where his clients helped pull the company forward. With Maxwell being at the forefront of a lot of mortgage ecosystem innovation and adoption, he also shares a handful of tips on how to end up on top during an industry cycle.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, Clayton interviews Dr. Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist of Bright MLS. They cover everything from economic data to innovations in mortgage lending, valuation trends in the real estate brokerage industry, and market data local to Bright as well as national trends.

But, most importantly, we hope you'll tune in and stay for the whole episode as Lisa provides her predictions for the 2023 market, including her forecast for interest rates and home prices.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

For today's episode of the Housing News Podcast, we're bringing you the audio version of an interview featuring Clayton and the CEO of Rook Capital, Ed Messman, who talks about some of the innovative solutions to the home affordability crisis.

Clayton and Ed's conversation helps lay a great backdrop to the affordability challenge that our country is currently facing and how that challenge impacts both mortgage and real estate professionals across the country. They also go into some of today's innovative market solutions that are not only helping homeowners afford homes but also helping mortgage and real estate professionals best serve their borrowers and referral partners.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

On today's episode, we sit down with Scot Rose, the Chief Innovation Officer at Class Valuation to talk about the way that some lenders are adopting technology around their appraisal evaluation processes that will prepare them to innovate on the other side of this turbulent market.

Clayton and Scot unpack some of the things that Class Valuation is building that'll help drive business, as we're seeing market uncertainty put a lot of people on the sidelines, and only the most strategic players are still focused on the horizon.

They also talked about some of their inorganic strategies of how they're looking at other AMC and tech acquisitions to propel the business forward. Scott gives a real glimpse into how he thinks the future appraisal will look and how the term "appraisal modernization" might become less prominent in the future.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, we welcome Willie Newman, the president and CEO of Homepoint, to the Housing News podcast!

In this episode, Clayton and Willie talk about navigating market cycles, building more resilient mortgage banks with better technology and workflows, and ensuring the IMBs are staffed and resourced properly and efficiently for today's lower volume.

Listen in to this playbook conversation for industry executives and professionals that have their eye on the horizon and aren't afraid to use a housing market cycle to win in the long term!

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today we're joined by Eddy Perez, the CEO and president ofEquity Prime Mortgage and committee member and board member of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Eddy brings to the table some really great information about how leaders can get involved in the MBA and other organizations across the industry and how they can really make an impact in the broader housing economy outside of their own operations.

Clayton and Eddy also unpack some of the challenges that come with running your own business or team, having KPIs you have to meet —especially in a market like this — all while still finding the time and resources to get back to building long-term careers in the housing industry.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today's guest Nima Wedlake, a Principal at Tomvest Ventures, Board Observer at LoanSnap, recognized as one of the 2020 Rising Stars of Fintech VC by Business Insider, and much more! As a man who wears many hats in the industry, Nima brings a ton of value to this conversation by talking through the Tomvest investment strategy and the portfolio that he is currently betting on in the real estate tech, proptech and fintech markets.

Clayton and Nima also hit on a few other really important topics happening in the wake of the current real estate and mortgage ecosystem, including a potential wave of rapid new company formation and how that can impact fintech and proptech strategies. They also talked about the bifurcation of capital and this new development of thinking about both Opco capital and propco capital.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today's episode focuses on the entrepreneurial side of loan quality, quality control and audit services. We welcome to the show some of the leadership behind QC Ally, formerly known as Inco-Check, including Nicole Booth, the Chief Marketing Officer, Donna Gibson, the Chief Operating Officer & President, and Mike Detwiler, a partner at QC Ally.

Clayton talks to the group about Inco-Check's recent acquisition and the subsequent rebrand to QC Ally, some of the different growth drivers that they're currently seeing — including M&As — as well as what's next for QC Ally and how they intend to shake up and innovate in the quality control ecosystem.

We hope the episode shines some light onto some of the important topics that might make you change your view on QC and audit as not a cost center but potentially more of a revenue center for your mortgage banking businesses.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today we have two phenomenal guests talk about a collaboration on artificial intelligence in the correspondent lending world: Rich Gagliano, the President of Origination Technologies for Black Knight and Tom Wind, the Executive Vice President of Consumer Lending at U.S. Bank.

Rich and Tom sit down to talk with Clayton about this collaboration that aims to build more efficient origination processes, but they also talk about their own unique challenges and opportunities as they build both their respective businesses forward.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today we have the pleasure of welcoming Dave Miller, the Executive Vice President of Business Development at Cenlar, to the Housing News podcast to talk about servicing and just how important it is in today's market.

Dave and Clayton talk about how Cenlar has evolved over the decades to become the largest sub-servicer in the country. They also discuss some of the dynamics that originators and real estate professionals need to understand about the servicing world, and what services are going to be better for partners and provide a better experience to homeowners and their origination clients.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today we give a very warm welcome to Desmond Smith, the Chief Growth Officer at United Wholesale Mortgage to the Housing News podcast!

Clayton and Desmon talk about how his career — which has spanned multiple institutions across the mortgage industry, including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, and Fannie Mae — has shaped the way he currently operates as a mortgage executive at UWM. He also jumps into how the past year has shaped both his personal and professional goals, how he leads day-to-day and how his strategy to grow the broker channel is coming to fruition.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, Clayton welcomes the SVP and GM of Equifax Mortgage and Housing, Craig Crabtree, onto the Housing News podcast. Craig has an incredible background as a mortgage lender, which led him to his career as a GM at Equifax.

Clayton and Craig spend a lot of time talking about different credit data sources — from rent data to utility credit data — which Equifax is currently bringing to market as a new and unique data field that lenders can leverage outside of their traditional credit reporting box. They also go into how Equifax and other credit bureaus are leveraging automation to help lenders be more efficient amid the margin tightening that is happening all across the industry.

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Help HWMedia support those affected by hurricane Ian in FloridaOur mission at HWMedia is moving markets forward. Natural disasters like Hurricane Ian have an impact on homeowners and housing professionals alike.

HW is running a fundraiser to make a donation to the Florida Realtors Disaster Relief Fund. Please check out this link to purchase a t-shirt or sweatshirt. Proceeds will go directly to support disaster relief in Florida.

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The proceeds from each item will be donated to the Florida Realtors Disaster Relief Fund.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

We are back for the third and final part of our three-part series focused on affordable housing and increasing accessibility of homeownership!

Today, we welcome Montell Watson to the show! Montell is the Director of Diversity Lending and Strategic Partnerships at Movement Mortgage. He and Clayton walk through his career in mortgage lending and helping Movement launch their Consumer Direct division. They also go into some of the initiatives that he has spearheaded over the years, including Grab the Key, some HBCU partnerships, and other community-based lending strategies.

Montel also gives a glimpse into some other of the challenges and opportunities happening right now at Movement Mortgage, including originator recruitment, acquisition of a mortgage brokerage, servicing loans during COVID, and much more!

Help HWMedia support those affected by hurricane Ian in FloridaOur mission at HWMedia is moving markets forward. Natural disasters like Hurricane Ian have an impact on homeowners and housing professionals alike.

HW is running a fundraiser to make a donation to the Florida Realtors Disaster Relief Fund. Please check out this link to purchase a t-shirt or sweatshirt. Proceeds will go directly to support disaster relief in Florida.

HW Media Fundraiser Link --> https://www.bonfire.com/hwmedia-hurricane-ian-relief-fund/

The proceeds from each item will be donated to the Florida Realtors Disaster Relief Fund.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week we're back for episode two in our three-part series focused on expanding access to homeownership, the impact on potential homeowners and homebuyers as well as the economic benefits for our broader economy.

And on today's episode, Clayton sits down withShaival Shah, the co-founder and CEO of Ribbon. They do a deep dive into the power buyer business model, or as Shaival likes to say, the "cash buyer model" and how this cash buyer model is helping to enable new families and new homeowners to access and unlock homeownership and create wealth.

Help HWMedia support those affected by hurricane Ian in FloridaOur mission at HWMedia is moving markets forward. Natural disasters like Hurricane Ian have an impact on homeowners and housing professionals alike.

HW is running a fundraiser to make a donation to the Florida Realtors Disaster Relief Fund. Please check out this link to purchase a t-shirt or sweatshirt. Proceeds will go directly to support disaster relief in Florida.

HW Media Fundraiser Link --> https://www.bonfire.com/hwmedia-hurricane-ian-relief-fund/

The proceeds from each item will be donated to the Florida Realtors Disaster Relief Fund.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

We are dropping a special —and very timely — bonus episode looking at the state property of insurance in Florida in light of Hurricane Ian that hit Florida this past week.

Today, Clayton is joined by Ryan Letzeiser, the CEO and co-founder of Obie, to talk about all the challenges that the state of Florida has when it relates to property and flood insurance and how hurricanes and other coastal weather patterns are currently impacting and going to impact the insurance market in the future.

Help HWMedia support those affected by hurricane Ian in FloridaOur mission at HWMedia is moving markets forward. Natural disasters like Hurricane Ian have an impact on homeowners and housing professionals alike.

HW is running a fundraiser to make a donation to the Florida Realtors Disaster Relief Fund. Please check out this link to purchase a t-shirt or sweatshirt. Proceeds will go directly to support disaster relief in Florida.

HW Media Fundraiser Link --> https://www.bonfire.com/hwmedia-hurricane-ian-relief-fund/

The proceeds from each item will be donated to the Florida Realtors Disaster Relief Fund.

For more information how how mortgage servicers should prepare for hurricane season, check out this white paper from ServiceLink.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week we are kicking off a three-part series that's focused on helping mortgage originators and mortgage banks better serve historically underserved communities and expand access to homeownership. The series is going to cover both the impact on these potential homeowners and homebuyers as well as the economic benefits for the mortgage lending market and our broader economy.

For the first installment, Clayton got a chance to sit down with AJ Barkley, the head of Neighborhood and Community Lending at Bank of America during our HousingWire Annual event. They talk about the state of housing affordability and AJ's path to helping mortgage banks expand access to underserved communities.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week, Clayton sits down with Mike Simonsen, the founder and CEO at Altos Research to discuss the age-old housing question: how's the market? They go into the leading data points to better understand what to expect in terms of housing inventory, how mortgage rates impact home sales and some of the data that is often misunderstood.

They also talk about the relationship between the rental market and the home sales market and how professionals across the ecosystem can build their businesses to be successful in this very challenging market.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week, Clayton had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Bill Lyons, the CEO at Griffin Fundingand an incredible entrepreneur in the real estate and mortgage and space, even appearing on Shark Tank with Revestor, a real estate search engine for homebuyers and investors.

They discuss Bill's entrepreneurial ventures, his founding and building of Griffin Funding, and how his experience on Shark Tank has impacted his journey as a mortgage executive. Bill is going to be speaking at our Vanguard Forum as HousingWire Annual, which is a C-suite gathering of mortgage real estate and technology professionals across the housing ecosystem, so be sure to check it out!

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week, Clayton is coming to your feed live from the Blueprint proptech and real estate conference in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. He had the opportunity to sit down in person and talk to Rick Sharga, the Executive Vice President at ATTOM, and Nate Smoyer, the Head of Marketing at Obie as well as the host of the Tech Nest Podcast.

The three of them talk about what they learned and took away from the Blueprint conference, and how the market is impacting the decisions being made by prop-tech, mortgage tech, and real estate companies.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Today, on this sponsored episode, Clayton is joined by two product and technology leaders from Radian: Mark Wai, the EVP & Group CTO and Sawan Tivakaran, the SVP of titlegenius.

The three of them talk about how technology adoption innovation has drastically changed in the housing industry in the last several years. They also discuss blockchain, some of its real-world applications and what types of innovations titlegenius is bringing to the market,

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

In this week's episode, Clayton is joined by Tyler Okland, a facial reconstructive surgeon by day and an Opendoor analyst by night. He's also the founder of Datadoor.io a real estate analytics platform that focuses specifically on iBuyer data.

Clayton and Tyler go deep on all things Opendoor, from their business model, their Zillow partnership, and their interactions with the Federal Trade Commission. They also dive into what the industry and investors can expect in the coming quarters from both iBuyers and Opendoor.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

In this week's episode, Clayton is joined by Rick Arvielo, the CEO of New American Funding. Rick runs New American Funding along with his wife, Patti Arvielo, who is the president; between the two of them, they have almost 60 years in the mortgage industry, 20 of those running New American Funding.

Clayton and Rick talk about all things mortgage banking, the background of New American Funding, and what Rick has learned over the two decades of building this business with the call center model. They also discuss launching distributed retail, retaining servicing, building in-house technology, working with partners, and much, much more! Rick really gives a full glimpse as to the behind-the-scenes of running New American Funding, so be sure to stick around.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

In this week's episode, Clayton is joined by one of the most well-versed individuals in mortgage servicing, Courtney Thompson. Courtney, who is also one of our 2022 Women of Influence, is the founder of Consigliera and currently resides as the chief product officer at Sagent. She has spent the majority of her career on the "inside" of mortgage servicing, but now she has found herself in the fintech and proptech space.

During their talk, she provides some excellent perspectives on managing servicing and technology through multiple market cycles They also talk about MSRs, the relationship between origination, servicing, and secondary markets, and, finally, the hurdles to incredible technology adoption.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

In this week's episode, Clayton is joined by the VP of Marketing and Communications at EscrowTab, Amy Moses. Being one of our 2022 Marketing Leaders, Amy is also somewhat of an "eClosing influencer" by being one of the first marketers to develop substantial thought leadership and education for eClosings and eNotes, increasing their popularity by over 150% across many parts of the industry.

Clayton talks to Amy about her journey for advocacy and education work for eClosings over the years, the current state of adoption, and where the industry still has to go to overcome the many knowledge barriers that eClosings still face. They also delve into her "Moses' Musings" about the industry and her top tips on how to best maximize your time at conferences.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

This week features a special crossover episode of our sister podcast, HousingWire Daily, which is hosted by our Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler and features HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami. They talk about the broader housing economics, mortgage rate volatility and whether or not he thinks lower rates will bring housing out of a recession.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by Elissa Branch and Dalton Johnson.

For this week’s episode, Clayton is joined by Lucas Haldeman, the CEO of SmartRent. In a bit of a turn from our usual content, this episode dives into all things rental market. Clayton and Lucas discuss rental trends and market health across the United States and how it reflects in the overall housing ecosystem.

They also talk about Lucas’s entrepreneurial journey and how SmartRent was able to go public in the four short years since its founding.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by Elissa Branch and Dalton Johnson.

For this week's episode, Clayton is joined in the studio with industry veteran John Burns, the CEO of John Burns Real Estate Consulting. Before founding John Burns Real Estate Consulting back in 2001, John worked for several years at a national consulting firm and several more at KPMG.

During the episode, two dive into how his consulting business got started, the types of clients being served, and some of the research and consulting work that's driving change in the housing ecosystem. They also go into some of the economic insights that John and his team are advising people on to prepare their businesses to excel through the upcoming cycle.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by Elissa Branch and Dalton Johnson.

On this week's episode, HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins is joined by the President of Incenter Appraisal Management, Mark Walser, and the President of Incenter Agency Solutions & Enterprise Business Strategy, TJ Harrington. As well as the CEO for Real Estate Consortia, Teresa Grobecker.

The quartet discuss the partnership between Incenter and Real Estate Consortia, the blockchain, certified listings and more.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by Elissa Branch and Dalton Johnson

On today's episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by the Chief Innovation Officer at Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang, Dave Savage, as well as the Experience.com VP of Strategy Kristen Messerli. The three dive into a discussion on the current state of the mortgage industry.

Dave and Kristen discuss their recently released "half-time report" of 2022, some of the trends the industry is seeing this year, the challenges the industry has to overcome and more.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by Elissa Branch and Dalton Johnson.

Coming to you from the Gathering of Eagles conference in Colorado Springs, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins sits down with HousingWire and HW Media’s own Editor-in-Chief, Sarah Wheeler.

Clayton and Sarah discuss her role as editor in chief, as well as some of the key learnings from the Gathering of Eagles and other news stories crossing the HousingWire newsroom desk this week.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by Elissa Branch.

Coming to you this week – a little over three years to the day since his last appearance on the show – is Phil Treadwell. Phil is a market leader at Thrive Mortgage where he leads the BREW team in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He is also the host of the Mortgage Marketing Expert podcast.

The last time he appeared on the show the discussion centered on mortgage marketing in a low-rate environment. Now in a distinctly different (savagely unhealthy) market, Treadwell and HW Media CEO Clayton Collins focus their conversation on the opposite: mortgage marketing in a high-interest rate environment.

Enjoy the episode!

This week, just as the Federal Reserve hikes its benchmark rate in the biggest move since 1994, HousingWire’s Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami joins HW Media CEO Clayton Collins to give the rundown on the relationship between the Fed's fund rate and mortgage interest rates.

They also discuss some of the misconceptions between the two, other highlights of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting and what market predictions can be gleaned from the data.

Enjoy the episode!

Today is a very special edition of the Housing News podcast as we gathered people from all across the HW Media team to bring you a mid-year update on different sectors in the housing industry.

Clayton first sits down with HousingWire Managing Editor James Kleimann to talk about inventory and loan originator sentiment. Then, HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami joins to talk mortgage rates and application trends. Reporter Connie Kim brings a look at consumer sentiment and RealTrends Editorial Director Tracey Velt follows with real estate broker and agent sentiment from RealTrends’ BrokerPulse survey.

Finally, we wrap with HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler as she talks builder sentiment courtesy of data from John Burns Real Estate Consulting and the National Association of Home Builders.

Hope you enjoy the episode!

Today, on this sponsored episode, our Housing News guest is Austin Niemiec, the Executive Vice President at Rocket Pro TPO. Niemiec joined HW Media CEO Clayton Collins talk about new and upcoming trends in the housing market, especially among originators.

They also discuss shifting consumer expectations, how to prepare buyers for a competitive market and mortgage product innovation!

Today, our Housing News guest is Karl Jacob, the CEO and co-founder of LoanSnap. Jacob joined HW Media CEO Clayton Collins a few weeks back to talk about blockchain cryptocurrencies and NFTs in likely our most well-informed discussion on the subject to date.

They discuss how the blockchain and NFTs are fitting into the mortgage ecosystem, how consumers should expect to see the symbiotic relationship grow and how LoanSnap is leading the charge.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage and real estate. Each week a new mortgage, real estate or proptech executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by Elissa Branch.

This week’s Housing News guest is Bill Dallas, most recently President of Finance of America Mortgage, a role he left in March of this year. Dallas has also been behind the founding and managing of more than a dozen mortgage and financial tech companies over the past 40 years, including Skyline Homes, OwnIt and New Leaf.

Dallas joined HW Media CEO Clayton Collins to talk about the current state of the mortgage banking industry, especially as compared to previous cycles. They also talk about how the “great reset” of the mortgage lending industry is quickly approaching in Q2 of this year.

Today’s guest is the Founder and Execetive Chairman of loanDepot, Anthony Hsieh. Following loanDepot’s first-quarter earnings call this past Tuesday, Hsieh joins HW Media CEO Clayton Collins to talk about how those in the mortgage industry should expect to weather through a painful – but necessary – cycle.

Bringing with him decades of mortgage experience, Hsieh shares how to strategically play both offense and defense in quickly shifting market conditions. Collins and Hsieh also talk about the evolution of loanDepot’s mello division, how vertical integration plays into the convergence of real estate financing and services and much more!

We are dropping an extra-special episode in your feed this morning for a crossover with the Tom Ferry Podcast Experience!

HW Media CEO Clayton Collins and Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler joined Tom Ferry in his Dallas studio last month to guest star on an episode of the Tom Ferry Podcast Experience.

The three of them talk about every topic that should be top of mind right now, like rates, inventory, inflation, the housing bubble and much more. They also dissect the question everyone is asking as rates rise: did I miss the chance to buy a house?

This week’s episode is a special crossover with HousingWire sister brand RealTrends on their RealTrending podcast. RealTrends Editorial Director Tracey Velt interviews Rob Hahn, aka Notorious Rob, of 7DS Associates, a Las Vegas-based real estate consulting firm.

They discuss home prices and what brokers should do to remain market-proof and his take on the commission lawsuits. Hahn also shares his opinion on the future of the commodified brokerage.

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by Ron Turner, President of Tri Pointe Connect to talk give a breakdown of the current state of the housing market and how Tri Pointe Connect’s status as an affiliated lender with Tri Pointe Homes gives them a unique opportunity into new inventory being built all across the country.

The pair also about other hot topics in the space, including mortgage rates, supply and demand and home price appreciation.

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by Miriam Moore, the Division President at Default Services at ServiceLink to talk about their most recent State of Homebuying Report, which looks at how prospective homebuyers are viewing and making decisions in the current market.

The pair talk about how buyers are using technology, emerging demographics, home price appreciation, and the interesting role that auction is beginning to play in today's hot market.

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined in person by Qualia CEO and founder Nate Baker at Qualia’s Future of Real Estate Summit last week in Austin, Texas.

Their discussion centered around the prevailing theme of the conference: connectivity. They talk about the importance of a connected and streamlined transaction in a rapidly changing industry and how Qualia fits into the process. They also discuss new moves in technology innovation and M&As!

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by the Director of Research, Managing Principal at John Burns Real Estate Consulting, Rick Palacios to discuss the findings of their most recent Home Builder Survey.

The pair walk through some of the economic headwinds that prospective buyers are facing amid the lack of inventory, rising rates, and inflation. They also dive into how the market is faring on the construction side, with high material costs still impacting building prices.

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by Chris Griffith, owner of Debt Does Deals, a Texas-based mortgage brokerage firm and Founder of Vetted VA, a company dedicated to providing homeownership resources to veterans.

The pair compare VA loans to more conventional loan products and dive into Vetted VA’s recently published whitepaper that aims to debunk VA myths and demystify the VA loan process.

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by the CEO of the nation's largest wholesale and purchase lender, Mat Ishbia of United Wholesale Mortgage. The pair discuss how UWM is faring amid a turbulent market, the outlook for their brokers in a rapidly changing rate environment, and the future of UWM’s Appraisal Direct program.

They also dive into some upcoming trends and Mat shares his predictions for the 2022 market, including new products on the horizon, potential challengers for originators and much more!

This week’s episode of Housing News is a special episode that features last month’s HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast event. The event included notable economists and analysts from across the housing industry, including HousingWire’s Senior Analyst Logan Mohtashami, CoreLogic’s Deputy Chief Economist Selma Hepp, Mortgage Bankers Association’s VP of Industry Analysis Research and Economic Marina Walsh, Zillow’s Senior Economist Jeff Tucker, and Maxwell’s VP, Sadie Gurley.

Each guest brought a uniquely different perspective to the panel, with some choosing to focus on overvaluation and home appreciation and others highlighting highs and lows in markets across the country.

Be sure to stick around for the end of the episode, which features an updated discussion between HW Media CEO Clayton Collins and Logan Mohtashami to share what has and has not changed since February!

Check out the full virtual event here, which includes the visual presentations from our guests and a Q&A segment!

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by Patrick Burns and Pat Kinsel, founders and CEOS of Spruce and Notarize, respectively. Both of these companies, which are featured in this year’s Tech100 mortgage winners, are among those paving the way for digital mortgage innovation.

The three discuss each company’s journey and current partnership, hurdles amid regulation of RON and digital closing legislation, and what the future holds for digital mortgage transactions. They also discuss the pros and cons of in-house innovation versus acquisition, especially for large players in the industry.

Check out this year’s Tech100 winners here!

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by keynote speaker Rene Rodriguez, the CEO of Volentum and founder of the AMPLIFII coaching and leadership advising program. Rene’s unique background in applied behavioral science gives him a special approach to the program, which has helped over 100,000 people across many industries.

Rene and Clayton walk through building a personal brand through technology as work and personal life blur, his journey through the mortgage industry, and his passion for helping sales professionals grow. He also shares event details for his upcoming AMPCon!

In this week’s extra episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by Kristy Fercho, the Chairwoman of the Mortgage Bankers Association and EVP and head of Wells Fargo Home Lending. She wears many more hats across the industry, including leading the Affordable Housing working group for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency REACh initiative.

Clayton and Kristy focus on some of the major themes at the MBA Servicing Solutions conference this past weekend, including what we can expect for forbearances in a post-COVID world. They also discuss margin compression amid Q4 earnings season and address some of the buzz behind the rising MSR market.

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by Greg Schwartz, former Zillow executive and current CEO and co-founder of Tomo, a fintech startup that aims to transform the home buying experience.

The pair discuss some innovation trends in the digital mortgage space, what Tomo plans to do with the $70 million garnered from their latest funding round and more!

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by Chris Heller, the Chief Real Estate Officer at OJO Labs, owner of Heller Real Estate Group, and former CEO of Keller Williams International to discuss the current state of the market and whether they think it is a good time to buy.

They also highlight OJO Labs’s impressive scaling over the past year, the opportunities and challenges uncovered by RealTrends’ AgentPulse survey, and the potential in embracing the convergence of technology and human expertise.

In this week’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins is joined by Nick Thomas, the co-founder and president of Finicity and EVP at the Office of Engagement at Mastercard.

The pair discuss how the digital mortgage process and fintech innovation can help consumers manage and navigate the homebuying process. Nick also shares some of the behind-the-scenes of the Finictiy’s acquisition journey into Mastercard and some words of advice for fellow entrepreneurs.

In this week’s episode, Clayton is joined by Zak Schwarzman, a General Partner at MetaProp, an early-stage proptech investor.

The pair discuss some of MetaProp’s investment strategies as well as an array of topics in the proptech sphere, including its convergence with crypto and the opportunities that lie in the single-family rental market.

To sign up for our virtual 2022 forecast event, click here!

In this week’s episode, Clayton is joined by Moses Kagan, the co-founder and head of Adaptive Realty, a real estate private equity fund investor and property manager in the Los Angeles market. Kagan is also a familiar linchpin in #ReTwit and is the face behind Re-convene, something he dubs the “the real estate private equity “‘un-conference’”

The pair take a deep dive into the real estate private equity model, the interesting supply and demand dynamic currently playing out in Southern California, and how to build and grow relationships with worthwhile investors.

To sign up for our virtual 2022 forecast event, click here!

Hey folks, a quick note from your host, Clayton Collins. This week's episode features Erin Sykes, Chief Economist at Nest Seekers International. In addition to her economist role, Erin is also a producing agent in Florida and NYC. She brings a unique combination of analysis, data, and practical experience to the conversation.
In this week's episode, Clayton and Erin discuss topics like high demand, why people are fleeing New York for Florida, and the future of branded buildings in luxury markets. They also broached the emerging topic of virtual land and what it could mean for real estate.

This week's episode also features The Mortgage Minute, a weekly brief on the mortgage market conditions and trends in non-QM lending. This special segment is brought to you by Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions.

Hey folks, a quick note from your host, Clayton Collins. Season 8 is here, and I’m back! Sarah Wheeler has been the steward of Housing News for the last several seasons but now she is dedicating all of her on-air time to HousingWire Daily. Despite the fact that Sarah and I are fiercely competitive over who can grow their show the fastest… I’d still suggest you give her a listen on HousingWire Daily!

In my first episode back on the air, I have the pleasure of interviewing David Stevens. David has held almost every role in the mortgage industry -- SVP of single-family at Freddie Mac, EVP at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, president and COO of the Long and Foster, assistant secretary of Housing and FHA Commissioner, and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Now he is CEO of his consulting practice, Mountain Lake Consulting.

In this episode, Stevens discussed housing supply and demand dynamics, home price appreciation, and affordability, FHFA fees, mortgage bank margin compression and consolidation, and housing sector employment pressures.

This week, HousingWire’s editor-in-chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Austin Niemiec, Executive Vice President of Rocket Pro TPO. In this sponsored episode, Niemiec discusses the importance of strengthening broker partnerships in 2022.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s editor-in-chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Guaranteed Rate’s top-ranked loan officer, Shant Banosian, who recently announced another record-setting year.

Banosian explains how he topped 2020's $1.7 billion in volume by funding $2 billion in total origination volume for 2021, and also shares insights into next year’s purchase market.

According to Shant, as home prices climb and inventory dwindles, consumers will be more likely to utilize their home equity whether or not rates experience an uptick in 2022.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews John Paasonen, the co-founder and CEO of Maxwell. In this episode, Paasonen discusses the pivotal role of small and mid-size lenders in the mortgage landscape and Maxwell’s rapid growth over the last three years.

Paasonen also discusses some of the challenges of growing a company fast as well as what excites him about the future of mortgage lending.

Thank you for listening to the Housing News Podcast, please don’t forget to give us feedback and rate us on iTunes. Until next week, make sure to check out HousingWire Daily, a podcast dedicated to the hottest new stories across HW Media. The podcast is published each day and is available on iTunes, Spotify, google podcast, and wherever else you get your podcast. Thanks for listening

This week, HousingWire’s HW+ Managing Editor Brena Nath interviews Jill Cadwell, Senior Vice President of Settlement Services Operations at Radian. In this sponsored episode, Cadwell discusses automated decision engines in the mortgage industry and the specific pain points lenders are still facing when it comes to closing.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s editor in chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Ahswin Dayal, the President of LoanMonkey, a digital mortgage lender that's taking on some of the biggest players in the industry. In this episode, Dayal discusses how the company is planning to compete and win against lenders like Rocket and Better.com with a model that takes operational cues from both.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s editor in chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Grant Moon, the Chief Revenue Officer at Volly, and the founder and former CEO of Home Captain. In this episode, Moon discusses the difficulties Veterans face during the home buying process and misconceptions about VA loans.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s editor in chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Steve James, the Chief Marketing Officer at Fannie Mae. In this episode, James discusses the organization’s Here to help Campaign, which provides resources and information to renters and homeowners in an effort to help them remain in their apartments and homes.

James also explains how he approaches innovative marketing while working at an incredibly large and regulated company, as well as what is in the pipeline for Fannie Mae’s marketing efforts.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s editor in chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Tim Mayopoulos, the President of Blend. In this episode, Mayopoulos explains what makes him optimistic about the mortgage industry.

Mayopoulos also discusses how he sees the role of companies — as opposed to the government — in moving the ball forward on homeownership expansion, as well as what Blend does to promote an inclusive work environment.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s editor in chief Sarah Wheeler and lead analyst Logan Mohtashami launch season 7 of the Housing News podcast.

In this episode, Mohtashami touches on numerous housing topics, including the rise in forbearance exits, why he believes Jerome Powell has been successful as chairman of the Federal Reserve, and whether homebuyer demand will continue to increase despite inventory shortages.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Michael Franco, the Chief Executive Officer of SitusAMC. In this episode, Franco discusses the company’s growth trajectory and what he believes have been the most impactful changes for the mortgage industry in 2021.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Bill Dallas, the President of Finance of America Mortgage. In this episode, Dallas discusses what he’s learned as a leader and an investor, as well as how mortgage companies can combat margin compression.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Chazz Huston the Strategic Alliances Manager at Black Knight. In this episode, Huston discusses where we currently stand in the mortgage industry’s digital revolution.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Brian Holland, the CEO of Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group. In this episode, Holland discusses one of the biggest changes in the workplace over the last year -- the move to remote work. Additionally, Holland discusses the importance of company culture.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Ajita Atreya, a senior economist at Freddie Mac. In this episode, Atreya discusses Freddie Mac’s latest quarterly forecast, as well as her housing and economic projections for the rest of 2021.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Origence’s Andrew Weiss, the senior vice president of mortgage origination platform strategy, and Brit Barker the vice president of enterprise solutions.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Michael Iorio, senior division manager in joint venture at NewRez, and Randy VandenHouten, the executive vice president and chief financial officer at Shelter Mortgage.

In this episode, Iorio and VandenHouten examine the increase of joint ventures in the housing space and discuss what makes a good partner from their perspective.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Liz Smith, client services manager at RealTrends. In this episode, Liz examines the 2021 RealTrends + Tom Ferry the Thousand and America’s Best Real Estate Professionals rankings.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Jennifer McGuinness, president of correspondent Lending at Invigorate Finance. In this episode, McGuinness discusses the vision for her newly launched company, as well as this year’s purchase market and the nation’s lack of significant housing inventory.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Barry Habib, founder, and CEO of MBS Highway. In this episode, Habib discusses the squeeze IMBs may be experiencing in 2021, as well as how larger companies like Rocket Mortgage and United Wholesale Mortgage impact competition.

Additionally, he highlights the importance of the referral relationship in a hot purchase market, and whether or not the economy will face a recession in the years to come.

Summary: HousingWire’s Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami discusses the economic achievements made by the housing market despite impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic and his most recent HW+ article that asks, should Americans buy a home in a super-hot housing market?

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Logan Mohtashami, HousingWire’s lead analyst. In this episode, Mohtashami discusses the economic achievements made by the housing market despite impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Additionally, he dives into his most recent HW+ article that asks, should Americans buy a home in a super-hot housing market?

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews David Dworkin, president, and CEO at National Housing Conference. In this episode, Dworkin discusses how the NHC thinks about affordable housing and what federal policies will improve Black homeownership.

Additionally, Dworkin also addresses a recent decision by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to delay the final QM rule and how that might have unintended consequences for some of the consumers the bureau is attempting to help.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Ryan Lundquist, market analyst, and owner of Lundquist Appraisal Company and The Sacramento Appraisal Blog. In this episode, Lundquist discusses how the appraisal sector fared during the initial onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and how appraisers are navigating this year’s hot housing market.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire’s Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews AEI Housing Center Director Ed Pinto. In this episode, the pair launch season 6 of the Housing News Podcast by discussing several bills proposed in Congress that address first-time homebuyers, and whether or not he believes down payment assistance will be both and impactful.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire's Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Patrick Burns, the CEO, and co-founder of Spruce, a proptech company powering online real estate transactions. In this episode, the pair discuss heightened investor interest in title technology, innovation, and fintech adoption spurred by COVID-19, as well as the rise of M&A and partnerships.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire's Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Robert Dietz, the chief economist and senior vice president of economics and housing policy for the National Association of Homebuilders. In this episode, the pair discuss homebuilding trends across the country as well as housing policy, and the budding market for building to rent.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire's Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Lindsey Johnson, the president of USMI, a private mortgage insurance association, comprised of five of the six mortgage insurance companies in the United States.

In this episode, Johnson explains the unique challenges currently facing mortgage insurers, four principles the company considers essential to housing policy reform, and whether or not Biden’s proposed first-time homebuyer tax credit could change the need for private mortgage insurance.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire's Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Kristy Fercho, the executive vice president and head of home lending at Wells Fargo, who also serves as the chairman-elect of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

In this episode, Fercho explains how Wells Fargo is best serving borrowers during COVID 19, the overall effect forbearance exits will have on the housing market, and whether or not she is optimistic about the big bank model.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire's Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Brian Zitin, CEO of Reggora. In this episode, Zitin talks about innovation within his company, as well as changes occurring in residential valuation.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire's Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews John Beacham, CEO of Toorak Capital Partners. In this episode, Beacham discusses his recent HousingWire article that outlines three common-sense initiatives that could immediately make a difference in affordable housing, as well as how zoning impacts the home buying process.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire's Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Michael Bright, CEO of Structured Finance Association. In this episode, Bright discusses findings in the 2020 SFA Annual Report as well as what's ahead for the market this year in relation to LIBOR, ESG initiatives and GSE reform.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HousingWire's Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Danielle Samalin, CEO of Framework Homeownership. In this episode, Samalin discusses the importance of fair housing, and how homeowners can protect their biggest and most valuable investment toward wealth creation.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, the founder and CEO of HW Media Clayton Collins interviews Gino Fronti and Don Goettling, who are both area managers at Finance of America Mortgage. In this episode, the founders of DG Media and the Don & Gino show, discuss how to best coach originators in today’s market, as well as how to be an origination leader in 2021.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

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The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

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Three reasons there won’t be a 2021 housing market crash

This week, HousingWire's Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews MBS Highway Founder and CEO Barry Habib. In this episode, the pair launch season 5 of the Housing News Podcast by discussing MBS Highways’ 2021 forecast.

During the interview, Habib also discusses mortgage rates, what a new administration means for housing, and how the industry can build an empire in 2021.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, HW Media founder and CEO Clayton Collins interviews Steve Murray, the co-founder, and president of REAL Trends. In this episode, the pair close out season four of the Housing News Podcast by discussing HW Media’s strategic acquisition of REAL Trends, the residential real estate industry’s leading report that ranks the performance of the top U.S. brokerage firms.

During the interview, Murray also discusses his projections for this year’s purchase market and explains how real estate brokerages, loan originators, and title reps can all best work together for a more productive 2021.

Today, the Housing News Podcast features a bonus crossover episode from HousingWire’s Daily Download. In this episode, HousingWire Digital Producer Victoria Wickham interviews NotaryCam’s CEO Rick Triola

During the interview, Triola explains why more title industry professionals have adopted remote online notarization in 2020 and shares why he believes RON is here to stay in 2021.

This week, the Housing News Podcast features a bonus crossover episode from HousingWire’s Daily Download. In this episode, HousingWire Digital Producer Alcynna Lloyd interviews John Pataky, TIAA Bank’s executive vice president,

During the interview, Pataky discusses the nation’s lack of housing inventory and how it’s impacting homebuyer demand and home prices.

This week, Ben Cohen, managing director and senior vice president of mortgage lending at Guaranteed Rate, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss how he became the company’s second loan officer to fund $1 billion in loan volume in 2020. During the interview, Cohen also discusses how his team has adjusted to support origination volume, as well as what Guaranteed Rate does to prepare its loan officers for success.

This week, Simone Beaty, the director of single-family affordable lending initiatives Freddie Mac, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss the GSE’s affordable housing initiatives, as well as what it is doing to prepare consumers for next year’s home buying market.

During the interview, Beaty also discusses how Freddie Mac is supporting shared equity programs as many Americans continue to face financial hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here is a small preview of the interview with Simone Beaty. The transcript below has been lightly edited for length and clarity:

HW: What are some of the very unique challenges in making sure affordable housing is available for low- to moderate-income borrowers who have been affected by the COVID crisis?

Simone Beaty: What we always bump into is that demand for units has outpaced supply. So, we're always trying to figure out how we can best deal with the supply issue and access to credit. We try to tackle both and sometimes solutions can be merged, where we are looking at flexible qualifying requirements that take into account things like nontraditional credit. We also make sure people who are not mortgage ready understand what steps they need to take to be prepared, so they are not blindly applying for a loan. Additionally, Freddie Mac offers some flexibilities for borrowers that may not meet the traditional credit profile, so if they're not necessarily the cookie-cutter kind of creditworthy borrower, there is enough room in the qualifying requirements that give lenders the ability to make sure they can fit within the conventional lending realm.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Sarah Wheeler and produced by Alcynna Lloyd.

This week, Frank Nothaft, the chief economist at CoreLogic, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss how the housing market has fared in 2020.

During the interview, Nothaft discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the housing market’s vitality as well as the economy. Notably, Nothaft also offers his market predictions for 2021.

Here is a small preview of the interview with Frank Nothaft. The transcript below has been lightly edited for length and clarity:

HW: Let’s talk about CoreLogic’s Forecast. What are you expecting for the first quarter and first half of 2021?

Frank Nothaft: We’re expecting mortgage rates to remain at record low levels, possibly well below 3%. I think that's going to be the case, not only at the start of the year but for most or all of 2021. That's going to be very important in stimulating home sales, and also refinance volume. However, I'm not expecting refinance volume in 2021 to hit the same numbers that we saw in 2020, but I think it's still going to be pretty strong. In fact, I actually expect refinance volume in 2021 to be more than it was in 2019. On the home sales market, we're actually expecting home sales to be up in 2021 compared to 2020. It will be because of new single-family construction and increases in existing home sales. Notably, over the last several months, we've had an acute shortage of existing homes for sale in the United States. Part of that acute shortage of inventory for sale is directly related to the pandemic.

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This week, Robert Broeksmit, the president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss the association's regulatory priorities for 2021 and what goals it hopes to achieve under a Biden administration.

During the interview, Broeksmit also discusses what could happen if the Biden administration replaces Kathy Kraninger, the director of theConsumer Financial Protection Bureau.

According to Broeksmit, if a new director is appointed, outside of mortgage regulation, they’re likely to focus on policies related to fair lending and affordable housing.

“I'd first like to say the MBA is very grateful for the tenure of Director Kraninger,” Broeksmit said. “We've worked very closely with her and think she's done a really good job at the bureau.”

“If she is replaced, we think there are a lot of areas outside of mortgage lending that the CFPB will focus on because it has a very wide scope, it's not just mortgages,” Broeksmit said. “There were things the current administration decided not to focus on that I think a Biden appointee would have more interest in pursuing like student loan servicing, regulating debt collectors and payday lending regulations.”

Broeksmit also addresses the Biden administration’s housing agenda and what it means for affordable housing.

“President Biden wants to introduce a $15,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit, but unless lightning strikes twice in Georgia and Republicans lose both runoffs, I think we'll have a divided government where a proposal like that won't get much traction,” Broeksmit said. “While the MBA is generally supportive of something like that, we don't think the chances are very high.”

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This week, Cindy Waldron, the vice president of research and analytics at Freddie Mac, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss affordability and the trends Freddie sees in different areas of the country.

In this episode, Waldron explains how the nation’s lack of housing inventory is affecting low to moderate-income borrowers, as well as how COVID-19 will impact the homeownership dreams of Americans who may be struggling finically due to the pandemic.

During the interview, Waldron also addresses the unique affordability challenges facing American renters, who have disproportionally been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic.

According to her, while many renters are struggling, the pandemic has also stimulated homeownership desires for Millennials, many of who have indicated plans to become first-time homebuyers.

“We are seeing [the pandemic] hit a lot of renters, but we are actually also seeing it stimulate some of these Millennials,” Waldron said. “A lot of [Millennials] were staying in place as interest rates remained low, but during COVID-19 we began to see them move to the next house as they wanted additional space.”

Waldron says while the desire for homeownership persists amongst renters and Millennials, factors like dwindling housing inventory and home price increases are impacting their likeliness for affordability.

“Our chief economist at Freddie Mac has predicted the 30-year fixed mortgage will be around 3% in 2021, so that's good news for affordability as these low rates will keep monthly payments down,” Waldron said. “However, house price growth, which was around 5% to 6% in 2020, has been more challenging as COVID-19 has led a lot of people to want more space, which is adding to demand. So, this is also adding pressure towards affordability and even the housing stock.”

“In 2021, we expect the rate per house price growth to be 2.6%, so that should help a little bit, but it's not growing as fast as the 5% to 6% [In 2020],” Waldron said. “That said, again, the housing shortage is going to be very challenging, and building new housing during COVID-19 is going to be hard.”

This week, Thomvest Ventures’ Nima Wedlake joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss the housing market’s real estate ecosystem as well as Opendoor’s S-4 filing, which now values the company at $4.8B.

During the interview, Wedlake touches on his recent blog that examines Opendoor’s business practices, its progress to date, and its future prospects. He also discusses why so many companies in the housing space are now choosing to go public.

For some background on Banosian, here’s a summary of HousingWire’s article on the S-4 filing:

Opendoor has officially filed its announcement to go public after announcing its merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II in September. But the filing also revealed that Opendoor is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over its advertising practices.According to the filing, Opendoor in 2019 received a civil investigative demand. Inman first reported *on the investigation, which was disclosed in the company’s S-4 statement.

As of Oct. 1, the investigation is ongoing, the filing says.Opendoor has been busy over the last few months. As of Aug. 18, Opendoor has resumed iBuying in all 21 of its markets following a pause due to COVID-19. In the filing, Opendoor said “we are just scratching the surface today. We believe we have a massive opportunity to expand our to reach the top 100 markets in the United States.”
For much of 2020, government edicts related to the pandemic had a dramatic effect on Opendoor’s business. In the first half of 2020, Opendoor said it sold 7,832 homes, compared to 8,985 homes in the first half of 2019, representing a decrease of 13%.
Overall, Opendoor made $1.9 billion in revenue in the first six months of 2020, slightly below the $2.2 billion from the first six months of 2019. Overall, Opendoor posted a net loss of $118 million from January through June 2020.*

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HousingWire articles covered in this episode:

Opendoor discloses that it’s under federal investigation
Blackstone-owned lender and servicer Finance of America to go public
Caliber Home Loans plans $2B-plus IPO
United Wholesale Mortgage plans $16B public debut via acquisition

This week, Guaranteed Rate’s Shant Banosian, the nation’s No. 1 loan originator, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss how he became the company’s first loan officer to fund $1 billion in loan volume in one year, as well as the future of the U.S mortgage market.

During the interview, Banosian explains how he’s generated more than $4 billion in loans over the course of his decade-long career, as well as how Guaranteed Rate weathered the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

For some background on Banosian, here’s a summary of HousingWire’s latest article on his achievement:

Over the last five years, Shant has been Guaranteed Rate’s No. 1 loan officer nationwide, as well as the top producer in Massachusetts since 2013.Banosian told HousingWire that the key to his success is his team, and focusing on what consumers need and want.
“It’s one of those cliches: you don’t want to just work in the business, you need to work on the business,” Banosian said. “We’re constantly working on our business and taking feedback from our clients trying to understand what it is that our clients and our partners want, how to constantly be forward-thinking in terms of staying ahead of the competition and figuring out ways to be more efficient.”
Not only are Banosian and his team having a record-setting year, so is Guaranteed Rate, as it funded double the total loan volume compared to the same time last year. Just in August, the company locked down $12 billion in loan volume, breaking its record for one month.

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HousingWire articles covered in this episode:

Shant Banosian becomes Guaranteed Rate’s first LO to originate $1 billion
2020 HW Tech100 Mortgage winner: Guaranteed Rate

This week, Housing Policy Council President and former Federal Housing Finance Agency Interim Director Ed DeMarco, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss the future of U.S housing regulation as well as what the November presidential election could mean for the housing market.

In this episode, DeMarco discusses what lies ahead for the economy and the housing market once the forbearance period, which was implemented by The CARES Act and gave finically struggling mortgage borrowers the right to suspended payments without penalties for up to 12 months, comes to an end.

During the interview, DeMarco also addresses the unique challenges facing the FHFA as the agency continues to navigate COVID-19’s impact on the overall industry.

According to him, the FHFA will need to balance the uncertainties arising from both the pandemic and the policies that have been enacted to protect lenders and homeowners.

“Yeah, so FHFA has got an interesting challenge,” DeMarco said. “They have to balance the uncertainties arising from the pandemic and all of the many steps that have been taken in response to the pandemic, with the longer-term goals that Director Calabria has been quite clear about in regard to wanting to end the conservatorships.”

“So, you know, that's an interesting and difficult balance they have right now,” He said. “I expect this is out of the minds of the director and his staff, but of course, many other folks are awaiting the election to see what it all means.”

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Freddie Mac.
Here are links to the topics discussed:
· An end to Fannie, Freddie conservatorship by 2022?

· FHFA moves closer to ending conservatorship, issues new rule on allowing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to build capital

· Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announce underwriting advisers

· Lawmakers ask Calabria to rethink adverse-market fee

· Calabria does not expect widespread delinquencies due to coronavirus

This week, Robert Dietz, the chief economist and senior vice president of economics and housing policy at the National Association of Home Builders, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss how the nation’s homebuilders have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode, Dietz discusses how a national shortage of housing inventory and rising lumber prices have contributed to an increase in construction costs, which is making it much harder for builders to introduce affordable supply to the housing market.

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This week, the Housing News Podcast kicks off Season 4 with HousingWire’s Editor-in-Chief, Sarah wheeler as its new host.

In the first episode of the season, Odeta Kushi, the deputy chief economist at First American Financial Corporation, discusses her economic outlook for 2020, as well as her forecasting approach for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Notably, the duo also discusses how low mortgage rates, high unemployment and forbearance requests will impact the housing industry in 2021.

For some background on the interview:

During the interview, Kushi discusses what indicators First American was watching during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and how they have impacted the overall market.
“We wanted to know what would really impact the housing market, and that is obviously the labor market,” Kushi said. “So, we looked at high frequency data like initial jobless claimsto gauge how badly the pandemic, shelter in placeand the shutdown would impact the labor market. We also analyzed mortgage applicationsto see how demand is being impacted in real time, and then of course, we looked at monthly indicators like homebuilding.”
The economist also discusses what the Federal Reserve’s shift in monetary policy could mean for the housing industry this year and next.
“I think for all fields, this is going to be a huge learning experience, specifically for economics as we'll be able to look back and see the impact of the Federal Reserve stimulus, a lot of which was unprecedented,” Kushi said. “We’ll also be able to play out scenarios and utilize current data as a tool for future economic decline, and I think that will be really helpful.”

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Here are links to the topics discussed:

Fed’s new inflation policy may lead to higher mortgage rates
Average mortgage rate falls to 2.91%: Freddie Mac

This week, the Housing News Podcast features a bonus crossover episode from HousingWire’s Daily Download.

In this episode, Mortgage Marketing Radio’s Geoff Zimpfer and HousingWire columnist Logan Mohtashami discuss why the U.S. housing market is winning in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impact.

For some background on the interview, here’s a brief summary of Mohtashami’s latest HousingWire column:

The U.S. economy started the year off in an expansionary mode. Retail sales were positive year over year, job openings were roughly at 7 million and the housing data for the first time in a long time started to outperform other sectors of the economy. Existing and new home sales hit cycle highs, purchase application data showed steady double-digit year over year growth and housing starts had almost 40% year over year growth in February.
Then we were hit with COVID-19, and the fear of this virus along with the economic decline due to the stay-at-home orders whipped the housing bubble boys into a frenzy of crash calls.
My long-standing core thesis has been that the housing market would have the weakest recovery from a crash in the years 2008 to 2019, but it would improve in years 2020-2024 because U.S. demographics would become favorable for housing.
This is the time frame where we should see 1.5 million total housing starts and the purchase application index will get over 300.

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This week, the Housing News Podcast features a bonus crossover episode from HousingWire’s Daily Download.

In this episode, HousingWire Magazine Editor Kelsey Ramírez interviews OJO Labs Chief Marketing Officer Karen Starns about the role of marketing in the housing industry’s changing landscape.

For some background on the interview:

*This year the unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 and the response from local, state and even the national government changed how business operate, where they operate from and importantly, their marketing strategies.

The housing industry fluctuates quickly, creating the need for consistent changes in marketing strategy, but with the onset of COVID-19 many companies were forced to pivot with little to no notice.
Spoiler alert: HousingWire 2020 Woman of Influence Karen Starns spoke with us about the role marketers played in the COVID-19 crisis. She explained that marketers need to find out what works for them and double down on it, however they should always have an experimental campaign in the works.
“Never be afraid to try something new,” Starns said in the interview.
Starns is a force within the consumer tech space. As chief marketing officer at OJO Labs, Starns focuses her attention on the revamping of OJO Labs’ brand to better reach a rapidly increasing number of consumers through the company’s proprietary AI advisor for homebuying.
Starns is featured heavily in our 2020 HousingWire Magazine redesigned August issue. To access our all-new magazine and HW+ premium content, sign up here.*

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Here are links to the topics discussed:

HW Women of Influence Program Details

This week, Tom Hutchens, the executive vice president of production at Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions, and Manish Valecha, the head of client solutions at Angel Oak Capital Advisors, join the Housing News Podcast for its season finale.

In this episode, the duo discusses the current non-QM landscape, as well as what led to the quick evaporation of the product in March 2020.

Additionally, the pair discuss the two newly announced proposed rulemaking notices from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on the QM Patch, and what those changes could mean for the industry at large.

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Here are links to the topics discussed:

Did non-QM just disappear from the market?
Non-QM lending has disappeared from the market
Non-QM lending inching back into the market
CFPB to eliminate DTI requirement from qualified mortgage standards

This week, Carl Tyree, the executive vice president, and chief sales officer at Arch Mortgage Insurance, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss how the growth of the nonbank originator channel is impacting the housing industry.

In this episode, Tyree discusses the amount of servicing volume that Independent mortgage bankers are retaining and how they’ve managed to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Additionally, Tyree explains how mortgage insurance companies work with lenders throughout the forbearance process and explains why the implementation of new technology has been critical for ensuring the mortgage industry’s survival.

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Here are links to the topics discussed:
Share of mortgages in forbearance rises to 8.5% * Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac forbearance rate is ‘manageable,’ Calabria says * David Stevens stresses the important role of IMBs * [PULSE] The value of warehouse lenders in the mortgage market*

This week, the Housing News Podcast features a bonus crossover episode from HousingWire’s Daily Download.

In this episode, HousingWire Digital Producer Alcynna Lloyd interviews The Urban Institute‘s Alanna McCargo on how the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to impact America’s black homeownership rate.

For some background on the interview:

Last year, the homeownership rate for black Americans fell to 40.6% in the three months through June, the lowest level in the Census Bureau’s quarterly data going back to 1994, according to a government report. It was the smallest share recorded for black households since the 1950 decennial Census when it was 34.5%.
The downward trajectory began in 2007 when predatory home loans started going into default, sparking a financial crisis that spread across the globe as trillions of dollars in mortgage securities lost value.
*While the overall U.S. homeownership rate fell from 68.4% at the beginning of 2007 to 64.1% in 2019’s second quarter – a drop of just over four percentage points – the decline for black Americans was much steeper. The rate went from 48% to 40.6%, dropping more than seven percentage points.

And now data shows*, that the coronavirus pandemic is likely to worsen prospects for Black Americans, which will lead to a larger gap in the homeownership rate.

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Here are links to the topics discussed:

Biden urges support for black businesses and homeownership
[PULSE] 3 ways to increase and empower black homeownership
Homeownership rate for black Americans drops to record low

This week, Austin Niemiec, the executive vice president at Quicken Loans Mortgage Services, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss the housing industry’s rapidly changing landscape.

In this episode, Niemiec discusses his evolution in the mortgage industry and offers insight on how best to coach teams during these turbulent times.

Additionally, Niemiec touches on the nation’s significant uptick in forbearance requests from financially strained borrowers, growth in the wholesale lending market, and expanding mortgage refinancing volume.

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Arch MI and Quicken Loans Mortgage Services.

Here are links to the topics discussed:

Has the mortgage forbearance curve flattened?
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac will allow borrowers who took forbearance to refinance their mortgage
Is now a good time to buy a home?
Mortgage refinancings set to surge to a 17-year high

This week, MBS Highway Founder and CEO Barry Habib joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the nation’s housing ecosystem.

In the second half of this two-show episode, Habib explains why U.S. markets now face an uphill battle as the unemployment rate falls to Great Recession levels, and why first-payment defaults on forbearance are problematic for the housing finance sector.

Additionally, Habib discusses a conversation he had with Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria regarding the state of U.S. mortgage servicing. According to Habib, Calabria anticipates there's a good chance the nation’s forbearance window might close at the end of May.

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Arch MI and Quicken Loans Mortgage Services.

Here are links to the topics discussed:

Banks have the biggest share of mortgages in forbearance
Nearly 500,000 borrowers went into forbearance in the last week
Democrats press top mortgage servicers on forbearance issues
HUD watchdog: Some servicers are providing wrong information about forbearance

In this custom episode presented by Ellie Mae, HW+ Managing Editor Brena Nath talks to Ellie Mae Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Management Eric Connors on how the mortgage industry is going to move forward in this new normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now that it’s the beginning of May and more states are starting to provide updates around the stay-at-home orders, Connors shares how the industry has been learning to adjust to the changes in the market, such as the reduction in rates and the increase in volume, all while figuring out the new normal of working from home.

Given how COVID-19 has changed how people in this industry view technology both internally and externally, Connors states, “Imagine if this event had happened 10 years ago on the state of things like the internet, the bandwidth, videos, zoom, all of these things 10 years ago, was a very, very different environment?”

He adds that the industry has made significant strides in how they accept this whole process, saying it is going to be very ground-shaking in what it means to the digital part of people’s lives and how they engage with and leverage tools.

The other area that Connors emphasizes is the impact that the pandemic is having on the eClosing side of the equation.

"This is obviously going to become a higher priority for many of the lenders out there. In particular, the remote online notary and a lot of the legislative constraints that we've had around that I think are likely to start seeing some movement,” he states. “I think those are going to be two things to sort of watch out for as we go through how this new norm of adopting and leveraging technology, maintaining that engagement, even though we are remote, and then sort of the legislative side of this where we have had legislation in the way of making that more realistic for the experience.”

Lastly, as the industry continues to collaborate at the Ellie Mae Virtual Experience conference, Connors shares some of the biggest trends he’s hearing from lenders and what tips and tools people should bring into the rest of 2020.

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines.

For the latest updates on Ellie Mae’s Virtual Experience 2020 Conference, go here.

This week, Voice of Appraisal's President, Phil Crawford joins the Housing News Podcast for episode eight to discuss how COVID-19 has transformed the appraisal process for the nation's homebuyers.

In this episode, the host of the Voice of Appraisal Radio podcast also touches on whether or not the business is an essential service. Crawford also shares his perspective on why appraisers need a bigger voice in policymaking and touches on the potential impact of some recent announcements from federal banking regulators that allow appraisal postponements up to 120 days after a mortgage.

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Arch MI and Quicken Loans Mortgage Services.

Here are links to the topics discussed:

Are appraisals an essential service?
The fragmented voice of the appraisal industry
Credit unions can now also delay appraisals until 4 months after a mortgage closes
Banks can now postpone some appraisals until 120 days after a mortgage closes

In this custom episode presented by Ellie Mae, HW+ Managing Editor Brena Nath talks to Ellie Mae Senior Vice President of Marketing Jonas Moe.

Moe shares some advice on how to pivot marketing strategies right now given the new social distancing world we’re in. Using their own Ellie Mae Experience conference as an example, Moe explains what it means to think of things virtually first, since the idea of having face-to-face meetings is so ingrained.

When it comes to this new way of engaging with peers, Moe adds, “I think one of the things that a lot of us are adjusting to is what success looks like, and how do I measure success in that virtual world?”

He also touches on how Ellie Mae’s Virtual Experience 2020 Conference kicked off this week, opening the door to a new type of networking experience and collaboration.

“We’ve adapted a lot of content to be relevant to the time we're in now. Even thinking about where we were 60 days ago to where we are now, we've adapted a lot of the sessions and rejiggered them in many ways to talk about how businesses go forward in this COVID-19 world,” says Moe. “I want people to walk away understanding what Ellie Mae can do for them from a business perspective, and I want them to collaborate with each other so that they understand what tips and tricks are making them successful in this world where they've had to adapt their whole workforce.”

With Ellie Mae’s Virtual Experience 2020 Conference in full swing, they also announced that they will be donating $10 for every person who registers for Virtual Experience to GetUsPPE.org, an organization that is providing personal protective equipment to the doctors, nurses and first responders on the front lines. They will be donating up to $50,000 based on registrations.

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines.

For the latest updates on Ellie Mae’s Virtual Experience 2020 Conference, go here.

This week, AMC Lending Group's Senior Loan Manager, Logan Mohtashami joins the Housing News Podcast for episode eight to talk about the housing market's rebound.

In this episode, the HousingWire columnist and housing data analyst dives deeper into his recent article, "The Housing Industry isn’t as doomed as it may seem…” which discusses the housing market’s potential rebound following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mohtashami also shares his perspective on what he thinks will be the biggest issues facing the housing industry in the virus’ wake.

According to Mohtashami, the housing industry needs to prepare for an uptick in home foreclosures and rapid home price growth due to a lack of housing inventory.

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines sponsored by our partners at Arch MI and Quicken Loans Mortgage Services.

Here are links to the topics discussed:

Housing isn’t as doomed as it may seem – Here’s why
Mortgage forbearance level now at 5.95%
Nearly 3 million borrowers are already in forbearance
U.S. inventory of homes for sale reaches record low

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines.

In this custom episode presented by Ellie Mae, HW+ Managing Editor Brena Nath talks with Ellie Mae Chief Operating Officer Joe Tyrrell to discuss the surge in interest around technology for internal and external purposes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the technology trends that are starting to emerge.

Ellie Mae is uniquely positioned to see the juxtaposition between consumer demand in the market and the current state of the secondary market, as they help lenders pull loans all the way through their pipeline and get them into the secondary market.

When asked what lessons lenders will learn from this time, Tyrrell said, “I think we’ll never be the same. Even when we all return back to our workplaces, employees are going to have new concerns that they didn't have before, and employers, and lenders specifically, are going to have to really think hard about how they prepare themselves for whatever the next situation might be that disrupts their business.”

Tyrrell also shares why Ellie Mae decided to make Ellie Mae Insights, its analytics solution that provides peer benchmarking comparison analysis, generally available, adding that lenders now have access to new data to help them make decisions.

And with Ellie Mae’s Virtual Experience 2020 Conference starting next week, Ellie Mae is set to have a much bigger audience than they've ever had, as they prepare to strategize and plan for the future together. For the latest updates on Ellie Mae’s Virtual Experience 2020 Conference, go here.

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins.

Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines sponsored by our partners at Arch MI and Quicken Loans Mortgage Services.

This week, Movement Mortgage CEO and Co-founder Casey Crawford joins the Housing News Podcast for episode seven.

In this episode, the former NFL player touches on the biggest issue facing the housing finance sector – the ongoing uptick in forbearance requests from the nation’s financially strained borrowers, and the impact it is having on independent mortgage servicers nationwide.

Crawford also shares his perspective on how the U.S. mortgage industry can best adapt and overcome challenges during this period of uncertainty.

According to Crawford, the mortgage market is one of dramatic highs and dramatic lows. If mortgage companies want to overcome volatility, industry leaders must position their organizations to proactively address problems quickly and decisively.

Here are links to the topics discussed:

Calabria: No servicer liquidity facility coming, but GSEs may pull servicing from struggling companies
MBA “strongly disagrees” with FHFA Director Calabria’s stance on servicing
[PULSE] A federal liquidity solution for the mortgage servicing industry
[PULSE] IMBs are the path to recovery, not the problem

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The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins.

Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines sponsored by our partners at Arch MI and Quicken Loans Mortgage Services.

This week, Mountain Lake Consulting’s CEO David Stevens, who is the former president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, joins the Housing News Podcast for episode six.

In this episode, Stevens who formerly served as the US Assistant Secretary of Housing for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011, discusses his perspectives on the current state of the U.S. housing finance industry, particularly on independent mortgage banks and their role in lending.

As the industry knows, market uncertainty continues to increase as more and more borrowers request forbearance on their mortgages due to financial difficulty born out of the coronavirus pandemic.

According to Stevens, every person in the mortgage finance sector needs to be prepared for an extended duration of credit constraints being applied to the loans they’re attempting to originate.

Here are links to the topics discussed:

Calabria: No nonbank is too big to fail
Calabria: No servicer liquidity facility coming, but GSEs may pull servicing from struggling companies
MBA “strongly disagrees” with FHFA Director Calabria’s stance on servicing
Calabria does not expect widespread delinquencies due to coronavirus
[PULSE] A federal liquidity solution for the mortgage servicing industry
[PULSE] IMBs are the path to recovery, not the problem

Advertiser Disclaimer: Quicken Loans Mortgage Services (QLMS) – Call for cost information and conditions. Equal housing lender. Licensed in all 50 states. NMLSConsumerAccess.org #3030.

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins.

Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines sponsored by our partners at Arch MI and Quicken Loans Mortgage Services.

This week, MBS Highway Founder and CEO Barry Habib, who was recently named the 2020 winner of the Crystal Ball Award, presented by Zillow and Pulsenomics, joins the Housing News Podcast for its fifth episode of season three.

In the first half of this two-show episode, Habib discusses the Coronavirus’ impact on the U.S. housing market and explains how a global pandemic hurled the housing finance industry in an economic storm that has yet to pass.

Habib, who says “not even Stephen King could have scripted this”, also explains why the Federal Reserve’s desire to lower mortgage rates isn’t just damaging for mortgage servicers, but lenders who now fear losing the ability to hedge their risk.

According to Habib, not only does the Federal Reserve need to temporarily slow MBS purchases to allow pipelines to clear, but they must more clearly communicate that mortgage rates and the Fed Funds Rate are not one and the same.

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The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins.

Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines.

In this custom episode presented by Ellie Mae, HousingWire Community Editor Brena Nath talks with Ellie Mae President and CEO Jonathan Corr to discuss the state of the mortgage industry and gives some advice on how lenders and companies can navigate everything going on in the industry.

Corr also gives an inside look at Ellie Mae’s new Virtual Experience 2020 Conference and the unique opportunities it offers attendees to interact with leading experts and their peers on the top issues in the industry right now.

“This is a stressful time for everybody, but how do you put yourself in a position to come out stronger and smarter and faster on the other side?” Corr said. “It really is in times of challenge and crisis where the folks who take it as an opportunity to invest in themselves always end up being more successful when the clouds clear and the sun comes back up.”

For the latest updates on Ellie Mae’s Virtual Experience 2020 Conference, go here.

Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines sponsored by our partners at Arch MI and Quicken Loans Mortgage Services.

This week, Glenn Stearns, who has undoubtedly been one of the biggest names in mortgage lending over the last 30 years, joins the Housing News Podcast for its fourth episode of season three.

Stearns, who founded Stearns Lending in 1989, joins the Housing News Podcast to discuss his new company, Kind Lending, which touts itself as a “fresh and edgy approach to mortgage banking.”

Additionally, the trailblazer discusses current market conditions, which have been changing each day as Coronavirus continues to take its toll on the mortgage industry.

According to Stearns, who survived the Housing Crisis of the 2000s, if mortgage companies want to survive this period of uncertainty, they will need to invest in technology and learn how to better communicate.

Here’s more detail on the topics of discussion this week:

Glenn Stearns founded the mortgage company that carries his name, Stearns Lending, in 1989. And in the convening years, Stearns helped build the company into one of the biggest mortgage companies in the nation. But Stearns has laid somewhat low in the last year or so, but he is being quiet no more. Stearns is launching a new mortgage company, Kind Lending.

Quicken Loans recently joined the thousands of companies that are encouraging (if not requiring) their employees to work from home to combat the spread of COVID-19. But the nation’s largest mortgage lender is hardly the only company that is moving to a remote work policy as the concern over the virus worsens. The Federal Finance Agency, Guaranteed Rate, Caliber Home Loans, and United Wholesale Mortgage are just a few names reassessing their workplace procedures.

The White House and the Federal Housing Finance Agency are calling for up to 12 months of mortgage forbearance for Americans who can’t pay their bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The amount of people needing that help is so big, it might require the Federal Reserve to flex its muscles, according to a report from Cowen Washington Research Group. Specifically, the Fed might have to use Sec. 13 of the Federal Reserve Act that covers emergency lending, it said.

And here are links to the topics discussed:

1) Glenn Stearns is back, launches Kind Lending
https://www.housingwire.com/articles/glenn-stearns-is-back-launches-kind-lending/

2) Here’s how the mortgage industry is reacting to the coronavirus https://www.housingwire.com/articles/heres-how-the-mortgage-industry-is-reacting-to-the-coronavirus/

3) Can the Fed help Americans get mortgage forbearance?https://www.housingwire.com/articles/can-the-fed-help-amer

This week, Robert Broeksmit, the president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, joins the Housing News team to discuss the mortgage industry’s challenges during this tumultuous time.

In this episode, Broeksmit explains the MBA’s approach to borrower relief, as regulators move to suspended foreclosures and evictions. He also touches base on potential liquidity backstops for servicers, bank regulatory flexibility for lenders, legislation permitting remote online notarization nationwide, streamlining the refinance process and more.

The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins.

Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines sponsored by our partners at Arch MI and Quicken Loans.

This week, Sherry Graziano, the head of Mortgage Omni experience at SunTrust, which has now been named Truist, joins the Housing News Podcast for episode two of season 3.

In this episode, which was recorded two weeks ago during the nation’s interest rate debacle, Graziano discusses the housing market's low-interest-rate environment, which continues to change day-to-day, and what it means for the mortgage industry as more and more lenders report a surge in both refinance and purchase volume. Additionally, she explains why relationships are key in the housing space.

Here’s more detail on the topics of discussion this week:

The Federal Reserve made its second emergency cut in two weeks, slashing 1% off its benchmark rate, and renewed a program to buy Treasuries and mortgage bonds in an effort to bolster the economy as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads in the U.S.

As the mortgage business continues to try to deal with the repercussions of interest rates hitting an all-time low early March, it appears that some lenders are inflating their advertised mortgage rates to try to stem the tidal wave of mortgage applications they’re receiving.

Mortgage rates fell to an all-time low two weeks ago, and lenders across the country are now dealing with a deluge of mortgage applications as borrowers rush to both buy and refinance. But are some of those same lenders keeping borrowers from getting even lower interest rates than they already are? The answer: Possibly.

This week, Shant Banosian, the top loan officer at Guaranteed Rate, kicks off season 3 of the Housing News Podcast.

In this week’s episode, the industry titan, who has also been named the top loan originator in the nation for the last four years, explains how his business is navigating the nation’s low-interest-rate environment, which has spurred a dramatic uptick in both purchase and refinance demand.

According to Banosian, the key to success during these turbulent times is teamwork. And as COVID-19 continues to take its toll on U.S. consumers and the global economy, it may even depend on establishing new workplace procedures.

Shant is keeping his team and referral partners updated via his team's Instagram and Facebook handles.

This week, the New York Times bestselling author Tom Ferry joins the Housing News Podcast for its season finale.

Ferry, also known as the #1 Real Estate Coach, is an industry titan that offers the nation’s real estate agents’ advice on how best to market themselves.

In this week’s episode, the fellow podcast host and Swanepoel Power 200 winner, explains how real estate agents and brokers can utilize social media and technology to set themselves apart, as well as what it takes to win in today’s real estate industry.

Housing Policy Council President and former Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Ed DeMarco visited HousingWire to talk about the latest developments on the Qualified Mortgage and the Ability to Repay rule.

In this podcast episode, DeMarco talks about the shifts in the QM, and what it would mean to remove the debt-to-income requirement from Ability to Repay. Is the pricing threshold a better option, or could it be better used to determined what isn't QM, instead of what is? DeMarco explains the difference, and what his take on it is.

This week, Carl Tyree, the executive vice president and chief sales officer at Arch MI, joins the show for a bonus episode.

Tyree is an industry titan, currently overseeing Arch MI’s sales teams and relationship strategies. Prior to joining Arch MI, he held senior sales and sales leadership roles with Republic Mortgage Insurance Company, Nomura Credit and Capital and Ocwen Financial Corporation.

This week, Thomas Sponholtz, the CEO and chairman at Union Home Ownership Investors, discusses his industry origin story, as well as his determination to bring housing innovation to the United States.

Additionally, Sponholtz touches base on new QM lending rules and the housing sector's emergence of alternative homeownership models, which he says will be needed to better service homebuyers.

This week, we’re bringing you something special – our first-ever cross over bonus episode.

In this bonus episode, Collins sits down with Phil Treadwell, the vice president of development and regional manager at Mason-McDuffie, who also happens to be the host of fellowIndustry Syndicate podcast the Mortgage Marketing Expert.

The two discuss Collins’ evolution within the mortgage industry, as well as HousingWire’s emergence as a top industry publication. Additionally, Treadwell and Collins touch base on some of the industry’s hottest topics, ranging from recession fear, mortgage rates, first-time homebuyers and more.

This week, Ben Lane, the managing editor of HousingWire, discusses Visa’s announced acquisition of technology platform and 2019 HW Tech100 winner Plaid. The agreement, which represents a total purchase consideration of $5.3 billion, enables Visa to deliver more value for developers, financial institutions and consumers, according to the company.

This week, Bill Dallas, the president at Finance of America Mortgage and co-founder of Cloudvirga, discusses his evolution in the mortgage industry, as well as the importance of creating innovative products for today’s mortgage brokers and lenders.

Additionally, Dallas touches base on the nation’s lack of housing inventory and how the rise of homeowners aging in place is impacting origination volumes.

This week, Phil Shoemaker, the executive managing director and chief business officer at Home Point Financial, discusses three housing trends to watch for in 2020. According to Shoemaker, the housing industry will see a boost in mergers and acquisitions, as well as broker expansions. Additionally, Shoemaker says the industry is likely to see an increase in technology in 2020.

This week, Jonathan Corr, the president, and CEO of Ellie Mae discusses the company being acquired by Thoma Bravo, as well as Ellie Mae's recent acquisition of fintech company Capsilon. Additionally, Corr details his market outlook for 2020.

This week, Alex Elezaj, the chief strategy officer at United Wholesale Mortgage, discusses the impact low-interest rates are projected to have on home lending. Additionally, Elezaj explains what the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s decision to increase loan limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could mean for the mortgage industry.

This week, David Battany, the executive vice president of capital markets at Guild Mortgage, discuss the housing market’s lack of significant inventory as well as the nation’s budding market for manufactured homes. Additionally, Battany explains what the industry needs to do to get more first-time homebuyers into homes.

This week, Collins joins us live from AIME FUSE 2019. The conference, which hosted more than 2,000 mortgage brokers from around the country, was held last month at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In an exciting conversation, Ryan Serhant, the wildly successful real estate broker featured on Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing New York” and “Sell It Like Serhant,” discusses his national bestseller as well as the intriguing story of the ever so elusive Mr. X. Additionally, Serhant offers advice on how mortgage brokers can make sure they are setting themselves up for success.

Although the interview is loud, as it was recorded in a room full of hundreds of brokers, the conversation is worth the listen. So, forgive us for the background noise, and join us for another exciting episode of the Housing News Podcast.

This week, Gary Beasley, the CEO, and co-founder of Roofstock, explains the origin story of his online real estate investment company, as well as the company’s evolution throughout the years. Additionally, Beasley discusses America’s single-family rental market, which he says continues to attract more and more institutional capital.

This week, Daren Blomquist, the vice president of market economics at Auction.com, has a very data-focused conversation about America’s economy, the housing market’s lack of affordability, and the growing presence of opportunity zones.

This week, Michael Miedler, the president and CEO of Century 21, kicks off season two of the Housing News Podcast. Miedler discusses his accession within the real estate industry, as well as what it takes for agents to thrive in an “experience economy.” Additionally, Miedler touches base on some of housing’s hottest topics ranging from Millennial homebuyers to inventory and affordability woes.

This week, Doug Duncan, the chief economist at Fannie Mae, closes out season one of the Housing News Podcast with a bang. Duncan takes a look at several industry hot topics ranging from the nation's lack of housing supply to its changing demographics. Additionally, Duncan discusses the likelihood of an economic recession and what that could mean for the housing industry.

This week, Tom Hutchens, the EVP of production at Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions, explains to listeners the role of Non-QM lending and what the expiration of the QM Patch could mean for the housing industry. Additionally, Hutchens discusses the nation’s homebuying confidence, which climbed to new heights in July.

In July, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau expressed its intent to allow the QM Patch to expire as early as 2021, and Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index indicated that America’s housing confidence peaked to its highest level at 93.7 points.

This week, Shelley Leonard, the chief product officer and EVP of Black Knight, discusses her 26-year tenure in the mortgage industry. Additionally, the HousingWire Vanguard winner explains how low mortgage rates are impacting the nation’s mortgage servicers and homeowners.

Last week, Freddie Mac reportedthat the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.75%, falling significantly from its 2018 rate of 4.60%. Freddie Mac Chief Economist Sam Khater says these low rates paired with the nation’s healthy economy are now projected to provide continued improvement in home sales heading into the late summer and early fall.

This week, Kal Elsayed, the President and CEO of Guidance Residential, a faith-based home financing company, explains the importance of working with underserved communities. Additionally, Elsayed discusses the Federal Reserve’s poised rate cut and the nation’s Millennial homeownership trends.

Earlier this week, The Federal Reserve announced it was prepared to cut its benchmark rate for the first time since 2008, and a survey from realtor.com indicated that affordability continues to prevent Millennials from entering the housing market as first-time buyers.

Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Blend. This week, Ben Lane, the newly appointed managing editor of HousingWire’s editorial team, discusses his experiences in covering the housing economy for the last five and a half years. Additionally, Lane touches base on the massive mortgage partnership between State Farm and Quicken Loans, and Fannie Mae’s recently updated mortgage forecast.

Last week, State Farm and Quicken Loans announced that State Farm’s licensed loan originators will now be able to originate mortgages using Quicken’s Rocket Mortgage platform, and Fannie Mae issued a new forecast that predicts the average U.S. rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage will sit at 3.7% in the second half of 2019.

This week, Rich Weidel, the CEO of Princeton Mortgage, explains why accessing loan origination risks is essential to staying afloat in the mortgage industry. Additionally, Weidel touches base on the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Stearns Holding (the parent company of Stearns Lending) and the U.S. closing of real estate company Purplebricks.

Earlier this week, Stearns announced the company was launching a comprehensive financial restructuring plan to realign its business, and Purplebricks indicated it planned to refocus its growth efforts in the U.K. and Canada.

The Housing News podcast is a weekly wrap of HousingWire's top news stories. Each week, HousingWire interviews mortgage and real estate experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines.

This week, Anthony Casa, the chairman of the Association of Independent Mortgage Experts and the founder and former president of Garden State Home Loans, explains why President Donald Trump's decision to back the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act is good news for the mortgage industry.

The Housing News podcast is a weekly wrap of HousingWire's top news stories. Each week, HousingWire interviews mortgage and real estate experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines.

This week, Alec Hanson, LoanDepot’s SVP and Pacific Southwest division manager, and TJ Freeborn, SVP of Customer Experience, discuss the importance of incorporating human interaction within the loan origination process.

The Housing News podcast is a weekly wrap of HousingWire's top news stories. Each week, HousingWire interviews mortgage and real estate experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines.

This week, Mason-McDuffie Mortgage's Vice President of Development and Regional Manager Phil Treadwell explains how mortgage professionals can best navigate a low interest rate environment.

The Housing News podcast is a weekly wrap of HousingWire's top news stories. Each week, HousingWire interviews mortgage and real estate experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines.

This week, Cobalt Credit Union’s Chief Lending Officer Alan Stoltenberg discusses the importance of putting power back into the hands of homebuyers.

The Housing News podcast is a weekly wrap of HousingWire's top news stories. HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney interviews Norm Creveling, the chief lending officer for Wings Financial Credit Union. In this episode, Creveling talks about the emergence of digital mortgages, the current housing market, and trends in consumer credit scores. Don’t miss it!

The Housing News podcast is a weekly wrap of HousingWire's top news stories. HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney interviews Tim Mayopoulos, the President of Blend. In this episode, Mayopoulos discusses his transition from GSE to Fintech, as well as the current market outlook for mortgage lenders.

The Housing News podcast is a weekly wrap of HousingWire's top news stories. HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney interviews Alpa Lally, Experian’s Vice President of Data Business at Consumer Information Services. As an American immigrant, Lally brings listeners a unique perspective from within the credit reporting services.

The Housing News podcast is a weekly wrap of HousingWire's top news stories. This week, Jacob Gaffney talks with John Pataky, TIAA Bank’s EVP and chief consumer and commercial banking executive. With GDP coming in strong, is the chance of recession finally remote, or is the sky falling? Plus, if your tech isn't what Millennials want, can you survive long term? Listen to find out.

The Housing News podcast is a weekly wrap of HousingWire's top news stories. Each week, Gaffney interviews financial services experts who can make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Blend. This week, Jerry Anderson of Alliant Credit Union discusses homebuyers, interest rates and the latest technology trends in the mortgage industry.

Adolfo Marzol knows firsthand about this nation's long history with taking in, and housing refugees. In fact, his parents emigrated from Cuba in 1961. How did the Marzols know they had made it in America? They bought their first house, he tells HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney in the finale of our exclusive podcast, 6 Questions with 6 HUD Executives.

On this episode of 6 Questions with 6 HUD Executives, HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney sits down with Ginnie Mae Executive Vice President and COO Michael Bright to talk about affordable housing, the securities market and Ginnie Mae crossing the $2 trillion threshold.

On the newest episode of our exclusive podcast series, 6 Questions for 6 HUD Executives, Farias sits down with Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney to discuss her colorful upbringing, her current enforcement actions and the real reason HUD went after Facebook. Look out for episode 6 next week, featuring Ginnie Mae's Michael Bright.

HUD CFO Irving Dennis joined the agency earlier this year after nearly four decades at Ernst & Young, where he was a partner overseeing the audits of major S&P 500 companies. In this exclusive podcast, Dennis talks about his move to the public sector and the passion that drives him.

Brian Montgomery was confirmed as FHA commissioner in May by a vote in the Senate of 74 to 23. But this wasn’t his first trip to the HUD c-suite, this is his second run leading the FHA and he’s been serving the public sector in several roles for quite some time.

Still, it’s a far cry from back when he thought he’d become a geologist, before housing “got into [his] blood,” as he tells HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney in our latest, exclusive podcast series: 6 Questions for 6 HUD Executives.

What’s the biggest challenge facing the FHA today? Access to tech solutions, he explains, which is not surprising as some HUD systems are nearing 40 years of use.

So what’s the solution, here? It’s a big one, Montgomery explains.

All that and more, please listen and enjoy.

Tune in on Monday, Oct. 15 for our fourth episode featuring Irving Dennis, HUD's chief financial officer.

Who brings housing hope to those deeply impacted by natural disasters? Who will help the 117,000 FHA-backed homeowners of Puerto Rico? In the second episode of exclusive podcast series, 6 Questions with 6 HUD Executives, Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney speaks with HUD Deputy Secretary Pamela Hughes Patenaude about disaster recovery, the impact of the opioid epidemic and the interconnected nature of the nation's housing policy.

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Welcome to the inaugural episode of HousingWire's new, exclusive podcast, 6 Questions with 6 HUD Executives. In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney interviews Secretary Ben Carson about goals, motivations, the state of affordable housing and more.

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In this edition of In The Winner's Circle, Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney sits down with Ben Miller, SimpleNexus president and COO. SimpleNexus recently secured a multimillion dollar investment and Miller discusses how that money is fueling the expansion efforts at the firm.

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In this edition of In The Winner's Circle, Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney sits down with Bob Brandt, VP of Marketing and Strategic Alliances at Optimal Blue. In this episode, Brandt discusses the three layers of analytics need for mortgage firms to be successful, both in mortgage lending and mortgage investing.

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In the final installment of the Regtech Report, a podcast series sponsored by ComplianceEase, HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney talks with the CEO of LoanLogics, Brian Fitzpatrick, on the next wave of significant mortgage disruption: regtech. Fitzpatrick outlines the roadblocks facing the full end-to-end implementation of the digital mortgage. According to Fitzpatrick, regtech can help us get there in ways that "traditional fintech has failed."

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In the fourth episode of the Regtech Report, Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney speaks with Chuck Cross, SVP at Conference of State Bank Supervisors. Cross explains how state regulators are building a tech-based system for compliance in the financial services sector and that tech implementation is a win-win.

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September marks the first official retirement days of two mortgage lending titans. In an exclusive interview with Jacob Gaffney, David Stevens, former head of the Mortgage Bankers Association, and Brad Blackwell, former EVP of housing policy and homeownership growth strategies at Wells Fargo Home Lending, reflect on their careers, friendship and where they think the industry is headed.

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For the third installment of the Regtech Report, a five-part podcast series sponsored by ComplianceEase, HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney chats with Debbie Hoffman, the founder and CEO of Symmetry Blockchain Advisors, about how regtech and blockchain fit in the mortgage finance space together.

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For episode #2 of HousingWire’s Regtech Report, Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney is joined by Jason Roth, co-founder and chief technology officer of ComplianceEase, which is also our sponsor. During the conversation, Roth explains common defects and errors in mortgage lending that are now handled by humans that will eventually be automated. He also touches on regulators reach on regtech implementation.

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While regtech is a relatively new concept in the mortgage industry, it has already gained a great deal of traction in other parts of banking and financial services. Craig Focardi, a senior banking analyst at Celent, talks with HousingWire about what makes regtech different from mortgage tech and how you shouldn't be afraid to make the leap into adopting new technologies.

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In this episode of In The Winner's Circle, HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney sits down with Mat Ishbia, CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage. In a fast-paced and energetic discussion, Mat explains why "100% of our focus is on mortgage brokers," what is next for the company, and the VA lending headache some lenders are experiencing.

At the Mortgage Bankers Association Secondary conference in New York City, I sat down with Freddie Mac to discuss the latest trends in the secondary market. To put it simply – times are tough for lenders as they face increased seasonality changes and fierce competition.

In the newest episode of "The Winner's Circle", Casey Crawford, the CEO of Movement Mortgage, reflects on his childhood, NFL career and how he builds morale at Movement. But games and sports no longer provide his strongest passions. In fact, he believes minorities need to be encouraged to buy homes much more than they are today. "The low rate of black homeownership is a problem," he says. Here’s what he is doing to fix it.

In this episode of In the Winner’s Circle, Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney talks with Kevin Dahlstrom, the chief innovation and marketing officer at Mr. Cooper, about the lending and servicing giant’s new app featuring artificial intelligence, how AI can save customers more than $500 a month, and what it was like to spearhead the company’s rebranding effort.

Speaking to HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney on his podcast series In The Winner’s Circle, the CEO of data aggregator Finicity, Steve Smith gave some advice to mortgage lenders who wish to stay competitive.

Calling the role of the digital mortgage as in the “early adoption” phase of mortgage lending, Smith said: “Lenders need to adopt a digital-or-bust mentality” in an industry that is “ripe for new solutions.” Finicity is making significant inroads into the mortgage lending space.

The company recently announced integrations with BeSmartee's digital lending platform, MortgageHippo's digital lending platform and Ellie Mae’s Encompass platform. They also announced a partnership with Advanced Data where Finicity asset reports are included as part of Advanced Data’s suite of fraud prevention and enhanced verification tools for mortgage lending.

Smith talks about this and also elaborates on the importance of customer-data protection, how lenders use tech to save valuable time and the early role blockchain technology is also playing in the industry. Listen and enjoy!

This week, HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney is joined by Reporter Kelsey Ramírez and Online Editor Caroline Basile to discuss the CFPB's final amendment to TRID's Know Before You Owe rule, disappointing GDP results, mortgage rates, and Freddie Mac's expansion of its 3% down program.

In this latest episode, Jacob speaks to David Schroeder, SVP of Quicken Loans Mortgage Services. Here, David breaks down potential homeowners into 3 different types of buckets and describes the methods to get them to close, quickly and efficiently.

David also talks about opportunities for mortgage brokers and credit unions to work with Quicken Loans Mortgage Services and the growth of its broker channel. He also touches on tech advances in mortgage lending and what that means for Quicken’s customers and their expectations of service.

Executive Vice President Rick Sharga is back at Carrington Mortgage Services. Here he joins Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney for the podcast series In The Winner's Circle, which focuses on the people who crush it daily in the mortgage finance space.

Sharga explains why the new nonprime is nothing like the old subprime and how they plan to reach millions of Millennials and turn them into homeowners. Plus, Sharga shares his thoughts on automation in the real estate and mortgage lending spaces.

Will Realtors one day be replaced by robots? What about at Carrington, are there tech advances that Rick can share? Get those answers and more in the latest In The Winner's Circle podcast.

In the Winner’s Circle is a new podcast series from HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Jacob Gaffney. Gaffney chats with executives about the innovations that are leading to successes in their businesses and within the mortgage industry. In this first episode, Gaffney talks with Kate Adamson, head of mortgage at Plaid, a San Francisco-based fintech provider that has set its sights on the mortgage space.