Power House

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 thro...

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 betw...

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...

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, S...

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 backgro...

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...

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...

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....

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 give...

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 focus...

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 convers...

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 shoul...

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 ban...

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 hope...

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...

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...

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 invest...

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 busines...

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 s...

On today's episode of the Housing News podcast, Plaza CEO Kevin Parra shares how his career as a mortgage lending executive has shaped the actions he is taking to prepare his business for 2023 and beyond. The conversation focuses on cost-efficient lending, focusing on single-channel strategies and building cultures that support recruiting and retaining the best people. Kevin addresses some of the...

This week we are bringing you an extra special episode of the Housing News podcast! Earlier this week, HousingWire hosted a virtual economic summit which we dubbed the Housing Market Update. We brought together a handful of the most forward industry thinkers and analyst to share some of the most relevant and thoughtful data and insights we should all be looking at as we head into 2023. They unpack...

On today's episode of the Housing News podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Todd Carpenter, who has had an extensive and successful career in real esate technology. Most recently the Director of Strategic Investments at NAR, Todd now writes his own blog at todd.re and works freelance with real estate and technology firms. Clayton and Todd talk about how the rise of artificial intelligence...

On today's episode, Igor Popov is joining us to dissect and discuss trends in the rental market. Igor is the Chief Economist and Head of Analytics over at Apartment List and he and Clayton talk all things rental housing market data derived from the most recent national rent report by Apartment List, including rent growth data in 2022 and how remote work will most impact the rental market in specif...

Today, Clayton had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Daren Blomquist, the VP of Market Economics at auction.com. Daren has been around this space for quite a while and analyzes and forecasts complex macro and microeconomic data trends, with his works being cited in major publications such as The New York Times and  The Wall Street Journal. For this episode, we invited Daren to talk about a r...

Our wonderful guest today brings to the table 23 years of experience in operating businesses in the mortgage technology ecosystem. In this episode, Dan Sogorka, the president and CEO of Sagent, sits down with Clayton to talk about private equity, venture capital and some of the current opportunities for dealmaking and consolidation in the mortgage tech space. They also talk about the impacts of fi...