This past week the National Association of Realtors held their annual conference , taking over the elephantine San Diego convention center for six days, 200 sessions, and a debate on everything from the right customer relationship management system to racism in housing to how to best deal with U.S. Justice Department antitrust officials. This week's episode of Houses in Motion, part of HousingWire Daily , features an interview with Lisa Dunn, of Laurel Real Estate Resources in Rancho Santa Marga...
Nov 17, 2021•41 min
Today’s HousingWire Daily features a roundtable discussion on how the eClose explosion is reshaping the mortgage experience for lenders, hosted by HousingWire’s webinar manager Allision LaForgia. The conversation features Craig Focardi, the senior analyst of banking at Celent, Shane Westra the chief product officer at SimpleNexus, and Matt Hansen, the chief information officer at Celebrity Home Loans....
Nov 16, 2021•23 min
Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover with the Housing News podcast, where HW+ Managing Editor Brena Nath interviews the senior vice president of settlement services operations at Radian, Jill Cadwell . During the episode, Cadwell discusses automated decision engines within the mortgage industry and, additionally, some of the challenges and pain points for lenders amid the pandemic....
Nov 15, 2021•21 min
Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending. In this episode, Tracey Velt, editorial director at HW Media Company RealTrends , interviews Sherry Chris, the CEO and president of Realogy Expansion Brands, which includes Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and ERA Real Estate. During the interview, Chris discusses the one-stop shop brokerage model and some of the things that brokerages can do to help counter margin compression. She also shares how to shield your real e...
Nov 12, 2021•30 min
Today’s HousingWire Daily is the second episode of the Preparing for What’s Next miniseries, sponsored by Black Knight and hosted by Assistant Editor of Content Solutions Jordan White. In today’s episode, White is joined by Andy Walden, vice president of market research at Black Knight, and Brennan O’Connell, data solutions manager for Black Knight’s Secondary Marketing Technologies division. Walden and O’Connell discuss what’s next in mortgage origination and the current transition to an equity...
Nov 11, 2021•18 min
Why are homes owned by white people valued more than homes owned by Black people? For this week’s Houses in Motion, a podcast miniseries part of HousingWire Daily , HousingWire’s real estate reporter Matthew Blake spoke with Michael Neal. Neal is a researcher at the Urban Institute, who has extensively studied not just the racial homeownership gap but the racial valuation gap. Neal also discussed the nuts and bolts of valuation models themselves. Our conversation, for example, touched on the val...
Nov 10, 2021•35 min
Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily continues our Women of Influence series and features an interview with Adrienne Goolsby, the Senior Vice President for U.S. and Canada operations for Habitat for Humanity International. Goolsby joined us on the show to discuss her team's work to ensure long term affordable housing in a post-pandemic world During the interview, she talks about Habitat for Humanity’s initiatives to help people across the globe secure safe housing, including programs like Vetera...
Nov 09, 2021•20 min
Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrends' podcast RealTrending , which showcases the brightest minds in real estate and the housing market. In this episode, Steve Murray, RealTrends advisor,and industry stalwart, discusses the increased amount of competition among productive agents due to market segmentation. Murray also discusses brokerage culture and shares an update on the mergers and valuations market. HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles re...
Nov 04, 2021•14 min
When do prices in a market rise so fast that they become detached from a home’s “true” value? That’s something Ken Johnson, a long-time real estate professor at Florida Atlantic University, has been studying of late. Johnson compiles a monthly list of markets that he views as overvalued with places like Boise, Idaho, and Ogden, Utah ranking high on the list. Johnson argues that in some of the most overvalued markets, people are better off renting Johnson joined the Houses in Motion podcast on Ho...
Nov 04, 2021•32 min
Today’s HousingWire Daily kicks off the first episode of the Preparing for What’s Next miniseries, sponsored by Black Knight and hosted by Assistant Editor of Content Solutions, Jordan White. In today’s episode, White is joined by Andy Walden, vice president of market research at Black Knight, and Mike Sklarz, managing director of the Collateral Analytics division, part of Black Knight. Walden and Sklarz discuss the future of the housing market and what’s next in housing inventory, prices, affor...
Nov 04, 2021•18 min
In today’s HousingWire Daily , HousingWire’s editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler and Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami discuss how Zillow’s model crushed its iBuying business. Mohtahsami also discusses his recent HW+ article that claims despite the COVID-19 crisis, American household balance sheets look the best they have in years, meaning home prices may not decline for a while. HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with...
Nov 03, 2021•22 min
Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily continues our Women o f Influence series and features an interview with Joni Pilgrim, the CEO and co-founder of Nationwide Appraisal Network. Pilgrim joined us on the show today to discuss her work as a HousingWire Women of Influence and what Nationwide Appraisal Network is doing as a leader in the industry. She also shares some of the biggest challenges facing the appraisal industry at large, including combating racial bias in the appraisal process and balan...
Nov 02, 2021•20 min
Today’s HousingWire Daily features a roundtable discussion on whether or not appraisals are the next big opportunity in mortgage fulfillment. During this conversation, Brian Zitin, the Co-Founder and CEO of Reggora, and Jonathan Corr, the former President and CEO of Ellie Mae, also discuss how appraisals are evolving and why lenders should be thinking about valuation right now. HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listen...
Nov 01, 2021•30 min
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 Reverse Mortgage Daily . The episode features an interview with Carol Dujanovich, the Vice President of Operations at Michigan-based 1st Nations Reverse Mortgage, who was recently appointed to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Counseling Federal Advisory Committee. Dujanovich sits...
Oct 28, 2021•29 min
In this week’s RealTrending crossover episode, Tracey Velt, editorial director at HW Media Company RealTrends , interviews Chris Kelly and Christian Wallace. Kelly is the president and CEO of Ebby Halliday Companies, which is part of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices of America in Texas. Wallace is the head of the New York-based Better real estate group. This interview with Kelly and Wallace was originally featured in a panel at the recent HousingWire Annual event and focuses on the evolution and ...
Oct 28, 2021•41 min
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.
Oct 27, 2021•38 min
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 organ...
Oct 26, 2021•23 min
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 artic...
Oct 25, 2021•14 min
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.
Oct 21, 2021•43 min
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 Berna...
Oct 21, 2021•32 min
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....
Oct 20, 2021•41 min
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 ...
Oct 19, 2021•17 min
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...
Oct 18, 2021•28 min
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 Volly and 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....
Oct 14, 2021•40 min
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 revo...
Oct 14, 2021•28 min
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...
Oct 13, 2021•28 min
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 w...
Oct 12, 2021•22 min
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 P...
Oct 11, 2021•26 min
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 w...
Oct 07, 2021•35 min
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 ho...
Oct 07, 2021•32 min
