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 st...
Jul 13, 2023•58 min
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 ...
Jul 10, 2023•51 min
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 afforda...
Jul 06, 2023•52 min
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...
Jun 29, 2023•51 min
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 an...
Jun 26, 2023•33 min
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 bus...
Jun 22, 2023•44 min
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...
Jun 19, 2023•48 min
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 con...
Jun 15, 2023•37 min
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. Jen...
Jun 12, 2023•38 min
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 Wom...
Jun 08, 2023•51 min
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...
Jun 05, 2023•46 min
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 o...
Jun 01, 2023•50 min
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 Sa...
May 30, 2023•38 min
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 rat...
May 25, 2023•46 min
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 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 Pres...
May 24, 2023•46 min
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 wor...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 4 min
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 ho...
May 15, 2023•32 min
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 evolv...
May 11, 2023•35 min
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 r...
May 08, 2023•50 min
On this episode of Housing News, we welcome a reoccurring HW Media face — Mike Simonson, the founder and president of Altos 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 mar...
May 04, 2023•47 min
Today, we welcome Leigh Brown, President of the NC Association of REALTORS® 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 sh...
Apr 27, 2023•56 min
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 considerati...
Apr 20, 2023•46 min
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...
Apr 13, 2023•53 min
This week's episode follows right on the back end of the Mortgage Bankers Association'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 an...
Apr 06, 2023•56 min
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 dyna...
Mar 30, 2023•45 min
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 c...
Mar 23, 2023•57 min
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 ...
Mar 16, 2023•39 min
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 buyi...
Mar 09, 2023•44 min
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...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 1 min
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 t...
Feb 23, 2023•48 min
