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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 ow...

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 a...

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 company after five years to join Revolution Mortgage. Brian joins HW...

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...

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 Bu...

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 i...

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 of Altos Res...

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 in...

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 f...

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 ma...

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...

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 se...

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...

Today we're joined by Eddy Perez, the CEO and president of Equity 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 operatio...

Today's guest Nima Wedlake, a Principal at Thomvest 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 te...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 with Shaival 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...

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 weat...

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 insta...

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...