HousingWire Daily

Today’s HousingWire Daily features another 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 Conrad Ficca, Vice President of Loan Data Products, also known as McDash, to discuss what’s coming next...

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...

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 Lo...

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.

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 t...

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. Wal...

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...

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 Humani...

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...

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 an...

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...

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...

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily continues our Women of 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...

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...

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 Departmen...

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 orig...

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 t...

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 homeb...

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...

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....

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 th...

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 proc...

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.