HousingWire Daily

For this episode of Houses in Motion, a podcast miniseries that is part of HousingWire Daily, we spoke with Holly Spencer Bunting, who is a compliance attorney at Mayer Brown where she represents mortgage companies. She shares a detailed guide to understanding RESPA, its history, and its current importance amid a surge of new joint ventures. 

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily continues our Women of Influence series and features an interview with Briana Ings, the vice president of product at Snapdocs. Ings joined us today to discuss what goes into the new product development process and to highlight how companies can benefit from adopting new technological processes into their workflow. 

She also shares her experience as a woman in the industry and how Snapdocs’ creates and ensures inclusivity for its workers through employee organizations.

Today’s HousingWire Daily interview features an interview with Robert Dietz, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Economics and Housing Policy for the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB). 

In this episode, Dietz explains why the market share for single-family rentals is growing despite strong homebuyer demand and discusses the NAHB’s latest Housing Market index that indicates homebuilder confidence is climbing across the nation. 

HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch. If you have a pitch or an inquiry relating to podcasts, you can reach our team at alloyd@housingwire.com.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover with the Housing News podcast, where HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Ashwin Dayal, the president of digital mortgage lender LoanMonkey.

During the interview, Dayal discusses LoanMonkey’s current business model and how he plans to compete with large lenders like Rocket and Better.com.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a roundtable discussion from HousingWire’s Lunch & Learn series that looks at “Unpacking the lender’s vital role in increasing minority homeownership.” The conversation tackles the challenges and opportunities that lenders and communities face while working to increase minority homeownership and equity in housing and lending.

The discussion is hosted by iEmergent CEO Laird Nossuli and features several real estate professionals, including iEmergent COO Bernard Nossuli , Homeownership Council of America President Gabe Del Rio, and National Association of Minority Mortgage Bankers of America (NAMMBA) Founder and President Tony Thompson. It also includes Jill Frondorf, SVP, Director of Operations at Fifth Third Bank and Robert Hironimus, Affordable Lending Sales Manager at Fulton Mortgage.

For this week’s Houses in Motion, a miniseries that is part of HousingWire Daily, we spoke with Lisa Dunn who is the partner/owner of Laurel Real Estate Resources in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Dunn is also a member of the California Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors board.

We discussed pressing issues in real estate, including disclosure of agent commission. She also shares what she expects to happen at NAR’s convention next month in San Diego.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending, a podcast showcasing the brightest minds in real estate and the housing market. In this episode, Steve Murray, RealTrends advisor and industry stalwart, discusses the emergence of a new brokerage model and the validity behind the concerns against institutional investors. 

Additionally, Murray shares some of the challenges that the mortgage and title industry might face under the Biden administration’s new Consumer Finance Protection Bureau director.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a roundtable discussion on “Humans versus Really Smart Machines” and what the right mix looks like to gain efficiencies in the mortgage loan manufacturing process.

During this conversation, Chris Gassel, sales consultant at LBA Ware, and Joe Camerieri, executive vice president at Mortgage Cadence also define what part of AI makes a difference in the mortgage process and explain what companies should consider as they look to automate their processes.

HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover with the Housing News podcast, where HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Grant Moon, the chief revenue officer at Vollyand the founder of Home Captain. 

During the interview, Moon discusses some of the misconceptions about VA loans and shares some of the challenges that veterans regularly face when entering the homebuying process. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending. In this episode, Tracey Velt, editorial director at HW Media Company RealTrends, interviews the CEO and founder of Knock.com, Sean Black. Knock offers cash-buying and alternate financing options for consumers looking to buy or sell a home.

During the interview, Black discusses the company's relationship with brokerages and shares his thoughts on the next wave of disruption in the real estate industry: the transaction revolution.

This week’s Houses in Motion episode features a special interview with Tracey Velt, the editorial director at RealTrends, an HW Media Company. Houses in Motion host Matthew Blake sat down with Velt to discuss federal regulatory and antitrust concerns within the real estate industry, including the REX lawsuit against Zillow and The National Association of Realtors. 

They also discuss a new wave of brokerage partnerships with companies like OpenDoor and Knock and how this one-stop-shop model could affect buyers, sellers, and agents. 

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily continues our Women of Influence series and features an interview with eXp’s Stacey Onnen and Fee Gentry. Stacey is the president of U.S. Brokerage Operations and Fee is one of eXp World Holdings’ board of directors and has also helped co-found and lead several of eXp’s diversity and inclusion initiatives, including ONE eXp. 

During the interview, Onnen and Gentry both share their unlikely starts in the housing industry, eXp’s recent and dramatic growth, and why they think inclusivity is important for success. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily features an in-depth roundtable discussion on economic and policy trends impacting servicers as well as a look ahead at strategies they should employ in 2022. 

During this conversation, CoreLogic’s chief economist Frank Nothaft, its senior leader of advanced delivery engines Sapan Bafna and Pete Carroll, the company’s executive of public policy and industry relations, join Meg Burns, Executive Vice President of the Housing Policy Council, and Mike Blair, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of LoanCare to also discuss what should be included in every servicer’s playbook.

HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover with the Housing News podcast, where HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews the Chief Marketing Officer at Fannie Mae, Steve James. During the episode, James talks about the company's Here to Help initiative, which provides helpful information and resources for renters and homeowners during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He also shares some insight into what marketing strategies look like for a company as highly regulated as Fannie Mae, and what he thinks the future holds for GSEs. 

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily features an interview with Selma Hepp, the deputy chief economist at CoreLogic. Selma joins us to discuss some of the data released from CoreLogic’s most recent Home Price Insights Report, which looks at home price trends and economic forecasts. 

During the interview, she discusses local and national home price growth acceleration and the factors behind affordability issues for first-time homebuyers. Additionally, she explains some of CoreLogic’s forecasted home price trends for the rest of 2021 and 2022 as the market starts to cool.

In this week's Houses in Motion, which is part of HousingWire Daily, we spoke with Michael Nourmand, one of the most consistent and established Beverly Hills brokers. Nourmand’s father founded Nourmand & Associates, an LA-based real estate brokerage, and Nourmand has seen firsthand the rapid changes in west Los Angeles real estate, including the influence of reality television shows and the impacts of climate change.

We spoke with Nourmand about these changes, and how what happens in Beverly Hills is both relevant and irrelevant to the rest of the country’s housing market.

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily continues our Women of Influence series and features an interview with Nicole Booth, the Executive Vice President of Public Affairs at Notarize. Booth joined Notarize in 2020 and has over 15 years of experience working with governmental bodies and advocacy groups. During the interview, she shares her experience with digital inclusivity, including her advocacy for more RON legislation and adoption for consumers.

Nicole also discusses her work with policy and industry relations at Notarize and shares what the past year has looked like for the fintech space. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily episode features an interview with Andy Walden, an economist and Vice President of market research for Black Knight Data & Analytics.

During the episode, Walden discusses Black Knight’s most recent Mortgage Monitor report that claims despite improvements in equity positions among forbearance participants, homeowner equity alone is not enough to prevent foreclosure starts. 

HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch. If you have a pitch or an inquiry relating to podcasts, you can reach our team at alloyd@housingwire.com.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with the RMD Podcast, a monthly podcast covering hot topics in the reverse mortgage industry hosted by Chris Clow, editor at HW Media’s latest acquisition, Reverse Mortgage Daily. 

The episode features an interview with Jamie Hopkins, managing director of Carson Coaching and director of retirement research at Carson Group, as well as a member of the Academy for Home Equity in Financial Planning. 

In this episode, Hopkins explains why it’s hard for consumers to remove emotions when making financial decisions, as well as how the reverse mortgage industry approaches long-term care as the COVID-19 pandemic shapes the business’ future.

HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch.

Today’s HousingWire Daily episode features an interview with Shayna Arrington, the Chief Compliance Officer at The Money Source. Arrington sat down with HousingWire assistant editor Jordan White to discuss the current risk and compliance issues facing servicers.

Additionally, the pair examine some of the CFPB’s changes to Regulation X and discuss the new Fair Debt Collection Practices Act rules that are going into effect in November. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending. In this episode, Tracey Velt, editorial director at HW Media Company RealTrends, interviews the CEO and founder of Fathom Holdings, Josh Harley.

Harley discusses Fathom’s recent growth and its going public over the past year, as well as plans to create a comparable industry-friendly service like Zillow. He also shares his thoughts on some of the biggest misconceptions surrounding Fathom’s virtual business model. 

Today’s episode of Housing Wire Daily features Ryan Gorman, the CEO and President of Coldwell Banker, one of the most venerable and recognizable brokerages in the country. It’s also a brokerage that is facing litigation over agent’s pay structure and competing with Compass and several other outfits that offer increasingly favorable commission splits to agents. 

In this episode of our Houses in Motion series, Gorman spoke with Matthew Blake, senior real estate reporter for HousingWire, about the issues facing Coldwell Banker and the industry as a whole.

Today, HousingWire Daily is joined by Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group’s Chrissy Zotzmann Brown for the Women of Influence podcast miniseries. As the company’s chief operations officer, Brown leverages nearly 25 years of extensive mortgage operations and sales experience.

In this episode, Brown discusses her leadership over the past 12 months, which have guided Atlantic Bay to offer a full-stop digital mortgage experience for mortgage bankers and borrowers. She also offers advice to other women who aspire to her level of success. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with the RMD Podcast, a monthly podcast covering hot topics in the reverse mortgage industry hosted by Chris Clow, editor at HW Media’s latest acquisition, Reverse Mortgage Daily. The episode features an interview with Jesse Allen, Executive Vice President of Alternative Distribution at American Advisors Group. 

In this episode, Clow sits down with Allen to discuss the current landscape of the industry in terms of AAG’s efforts, as well as trends emerging from competitors and volume levels in the final stretch of the summer.

HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover with the Housing News podcast, where HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Tim Mayopoulos, the current president of Blend and former CEO of Fannie Mae. During the episode, Mayopoulos shares his experience as heading a tech company after his time at Fannie Mae.  

He also discusses how the private sector plays an integral role in expanding homeownership, what he’s most looking forward to in the mortgage industry, and his thoughts on the future of GSEs. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending, a podcast interviewing the brightest minds in real estate and the housing market. In this episode, Steve Murray, RealTrends advisor and industry stalwart, discusses some of the issues facing private property rights, including how a case in Germany could potentially affect US legislation.

Murray also shares some ways for leaders to better connect with their long-term remote workers and looks at recent factors that might cause the market to slow down.

For this episode of Houses in Motion, a HousingWire Daily miniseries, Sonia Gilkbukh,  a real estate professor at Baruch College, spoke with Matthew Blake, senior real estate reporter at HousingWire.

Gilbukh and Blake discuss the problems with agent inexperience, and how this is affecting consumers. They also discussed the quirks of the real estate economy, areas where real estate is a pretty distinctive sector, including the use of Multiple Listings Services, and the cooperation, consolidation, and potential conflicts between MLSs and consumer listings sites like Zillow.

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily features an interview with Nicole Bachaud, an economic data analyst on Zillow’s economic research team. Bachaud discusses data from Zillow’s August 2021 market report, which looked at the potential cooling-off of the housing market.

Bachaud also talks about annual and monthly home price appreciation growth, rising inventory levels, and rent prices. Additionally, she shares advice for prospective homebuyers that are considering entering the market in the next few months.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features an interview with broker and star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York, Tyler Whitman. Whitman, who is also the founder of New York-based real estate group The Whitman Team at Triplemint, discusses the current state of New York real estate.

HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch. If you have a pitch or an inquiry relating to podcasts, you can reach our team at alloyd@housingwire.com.

Today’s HousingWire Daily episode features a crossover episode of HousingWire’s Housing News podcast. In this episode, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sits down with Housingwire’s Lead Analyst, Logan Mohtashami. 

Mohtashami discusses several hot topics in the housing market, including recent trends in forbearance exits and the future for homebuyer demand in the midst of inventory shortages. He also shares his opinion on Jerome Powell’s success as chairman of the Federal Reserve. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending. In this episode, Tracey Velt, editorial director at RealTrends, an HW Media company, interviews Mike Golden and Thad Wong, the co-founders and co-CEOS of @properties. 

During the interview, Golden and Wong discuss the future for @properties, including its nationwide franchising plans as it expands outside of the Chicagoland area. They also discuss other aspects of their growth strategy and technological platforms. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily is an episode of the Houses In Motion series, hosted by Senior Real Estate Reporter Matthew Blake. Blake interviewed Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin, who explained how the public policies and business decisions made after the housing bubble burst in 2008 capped who is able to buy a house and led to the current inventory shortage.

Fairweather argued that these limits came as demand soared thanks to low interest rates and a shift toward millennial homebuyers. Fairweather also discussed how climate change might affect real estate going forward.

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily features an interview with Jacob Channel, the senior economic analyst at Lending Tree. Channel joins HWD to discuss a recent study released by LendingTree that looks at the relationship between employment wages and housing costs in all 50 states. 

During the episode, Channel talks about the methodology behind the study and how affordability has drastically shifted since 2000. He also discusses if a federally mandated $15-an-hour minimum wage would alleviate housing costs.

Today’s HousingWire Daily episode features an interview with David Karandish, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Capacity, an AI-based support automation platform. In this interview, he discusses the use of technology in the mortgage industry and how innovation is benefiting borrowers and lenders.

 HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch. If you have a pitch or an inquiry relating to podcasts, you can reach our team at alloyd@housingwire.com.

Today’s HousingWire Daily episode features a crossover episode of HousingWire’s Housing News podcast. In this episode, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Michael Franco, the Chief Executive Officer of SitusAMC. 

During the episode, Franco discusses the company’s growth trajectory and what he believes have been the most impactful changes for the mortgage industry in 2021.

HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch. If you have a pitch or an inquiry relating to podcasts, you can reach our team at alloyd@housingwire.com.

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily features an interview with Ryan Cook, owner of a HomeSmart affiliated brokerage in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Cook was a contributor for HousingWire Senior Mortgage Reporter Matthew Blake’s piece titled, “Policing the pocket listings,” where he shares his experience with working with MLSs in the Massachusetts Area such as MLS PIN and Rhode Island State-Wide MLS.

During the episode, Cook discusses more about working with MLSs and the challenges that come with it, including problems with MLSs enforcing the pocket listing ban. He also shares his concern about issues with things such the property owner’s right to privacy.

This episode of HousingWire Daily features Michael Lissack who was a managing director for 15 years at then-mega Wall Street investor Smith Barney. In the mid-90s, Lissack blew the whistle on how dozens of investment firms priced municipal bonds, a move that led to a Securities and Exchange Commission probe, a $120 million settlement against the investigated companies, and Lissack’s exile from Wall Street.

Since then Lissack has pursued a variety of projects. One consistent thread is his work as both a real estate agent and managing broker for Virtual Realty Group. Lissack has now spent two decades in real estate. In this episode of “Houses of Motion” he describes working within real estate’s present dealmaking structure, while also wanting that structure to radically change.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending, a podcast that focuses on interviewing the brightest minds in real estate and the housing market. In this episode, Steve Murray, RealTrends advisor and industry stalwart, shares how to stay ahead of your brokerage competition in an increasingly competitive market.

He also discusses the recent uptick in COVID cases, including how it has created an opportunity for leaders to connect with their teams. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending. In this episode, Tracey Velt, editorial director at RealTrends, an HW Media company, interviews Gavin Swartzman, president and CEO of Peerage Realty Partners.

During the episode, Swartzman discusses Peerage’s business model and its growth strategy, including some of their brokerage firm acquisitions in luxury markets.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with the RMD Podcast, a monthly podcast covering hot topics in the reverse mortgage industry hosted by Chris Clow, editor at HousingWire’s latest acquisition, Reverse Mortgage Daily. The episode features an interview with Robert Klein, founder of the Retirement Income Center and investment advisor in Newport Beach.

During the episode, Klein dives into the importance of reverse mortgage production education and addresses some of the reservations that financial planners may have when talking to their clients about reverse mortgages. He also shares some advice to reverse mortgage originators about partnering with financial planners. 

Why are there so few real estate agents of color? What can be done to produce affordable housing in the Bay Area? What is the connection between investors purchasing single-family homes and the low minority homeownership rate?

Those issues and more were raised in this episode of Houses in Motion, part of HousingWire Daily, where Matthew Blake, senior real estate reporter at HousingWire, spoke with Shawneequa Badger, head of Corcoran Global Living’s Badger Real Estate Group. Badger, who is based in Oakland, chronicled her experience in Oakland and the local role she has played in a rapidly changing housing market.

For today's HousingWire Daily, Finance of America Companies CEO Patti Cook joins us for another episode of the Women of Influence series that spotlights the latest accomplishments of our award winners. As a 2021 Woman of Influence, Cook has been a pioneer in financial services since her earliest days in the industry. Over the course of her career, Cook has held executive roles at numerous companies, including Prudential, JPMorgan, and Freddie Mac.

Cook shares her personal journey for how she got into the industry, as a woman in the finance space who has risen to the highest level of her business. She also addresses one of her most notable accomplishments — taking the company public in the midst of a global pandemic. Now, as CEO, Cook highlights how Finance of America helps advance women into leadership positions and offers other women in the industry advice on how to advance their own careers.

Today’s HousingWire Daily episode features a crossover episode of HousingWire’s Housing News podcast. In this episode, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Bill Dallas, the president of Finance of America.  

HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch. If you have a pitch or an inquiry relating to podcasts, you can reach our team at alloyd@housingwire.com.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending. In this episode, Tracey Velt, editorial director at RealTrends, an HW Media company, interviews CoreLogic’s Executive of Public Policy and Industry Relations, Pete Carroll. 

During the episode, Carroll discusses the housing shortage, touching on the types of buyers who are most affected and possible solutions. He also discusses some of the other current issues in the real estate industry. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending, a podcast that focuses on interviewing the brightest minds in real estate and the housing market. In this episode, Steve Murray, RealTrends advisor and industry stalwart, discusses the impact of the recent resurgence of COVID-19 and shares some insight into recent real estate companies' earnings calls.

Additionally, he announces a new RealTrends real estate teams performance study that is launching in September. 

Today, Matthew Blake, senior real estate reporter at HousingWire for today’s episode of HousingWire Daily, spoke with Abigail Jennings, president of the brokerage Lake Norman Realty—20 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina. 

In measured words, and looking at local market data, she still describes today’s housing market in superlatives. There's more demand than ever, record-high interest from people in becoming real estate agents, and confrontations with homebuilders not paying agents commissions that did not exist before.

The episode is the latest in Blake’s Houses in Motion miniseries, which is taking a look at the biggest issues in residential real estate nationally. 

On the latest episode of HousingWire Daily’s Women of Influence podcast miniseries, 2020 Woman of Influence Crystal Sumner, who serves as head of legal, compliance, and risk at Blend, discusses the company’s recent program announcement to increase access to housing and financial services. 

Sumner shares the trends and topics that she is keeping a close eye on, such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it is having on the ability to qualify for a mortgage, specifically in regard to minority homeownership.  She also touches on how more consumers feel comfortable with online transactions and the increased adoption of RON legislation

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a panel discussion on the nation’s homebuilding trends. In this episode, Robert Dietz, the chief economist and senior vice president for economics and housing policy at the National Association of Homebuilders, Sean Faries, the CEO of Land Gorilla, and Douglas Norman, the vice president of construction and renovation operations at On Q Financial, discuss what factors have contributed to a national decline in homebuilding.
 
HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling mortgage, real estate, and fintech articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, the HW team provides our listeners with a deeper look into the stories that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch.

Today’s HousingWire Daily episode features an interview with Anthony Forsberg, the senior vice president of The Money Source’s mortgage servicing division. Forsberg discusses the options and services TMS is providing to its customers as they exit forbearance plans.

He also explains how digital tools can help teams better communicate with customers and what servicers need to do to improve customer retention.