March 13, 2020 The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines. This week, Shant Banosian, the top loan officer at Guaranteed Rate, kicks off Season 3 of the Housing News Podcast. In this week’s episode, the industry titan, who has also been named the top loan originator in the nation for the last four years, explains how his business is navigating the nation’s low-interest-rate environment, which has spurred a dramatic uptick in both purchase and refinance demand. According to Banosian, the key to success during these turbulent times is teamwork. And… Read More
Continue ReadingHousing News Podcast: Tom Ferry on how real estate agents can win in today’s housing industry
February 24, 2020 The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Arch MI. This week, the New York Times bestselling author Tom Ferry joins the Housing News Podcast for its season finale. Ferry, also known as the #1 Real Estate Coach, is an industry titan that offers the nation’s real estate agents’ advice on how best to market themselves. In this week’s episode, the fellow podcast host and Swanepoel Power 200 winner, explains how real estate agents and brokers can utilize social media and technology to set… Read More
Continue ReadingHousing News Podcast: Former FHFA Interim Director Ed Demarco on QM and the Ability-to-Repay rule
February 11, 2020 The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Arch MI. This week, Housing Policy Council President and former Federal Housing Finance Agency Interim Director Ed DeMarco visits HousingWire to talk about the latest developments on the Qualified Mortgage and the Ability-to-Repay rule. DeMarco talks about the shifts in the QM rule, and what it would mean to remove the debt-to-income requirement from the QM definition and why this makes sense.. Is the pricing threshold a better option, or could it be… Read More
Continue ReadingHousing News Podcast: Arch MI’s Carl Tyree on mortgage rates, housing inventory and the company’s mortgage market review
February 3, 2020 The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Arch MI. This week, Carl Tyree, the executive vice president and chief sales officer at Arch MI, joins the show for a bonus episode. Tyree is an industry titan, currently overseeing Arch MI’s sales teams and relationship strategies. Prior to joining Arch MI, he held senior sales and sales leadership roles with Republic Mortgage Insurance Company, Nomura Credit and Capital and Ocwen Financial Corporation. In this week’s episode, Tyree touches base on the nation’s low-interest… Read More
Continue ReadingHousing News Podcast: Unison’s Thomas Sponholtz on alternative homeownership models and co-investing
January 27, 2020 The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Arch MI. This week, Thomas Sponholtz, the CEO and chairman at Union Home Ownership Investors, discusses his industry origin story, as well as his determination to bring housing innovation to the United States. Additionally, Sponholtz touches base on new QM lending rules and the housing sector’s emergence of alternative homeownership models, which he says will be needed to better service homebuyers. Here’s more detail on the topics of discussion this… Read More
Continue ReadingHousing News Podcast: HousingWire’s Clayton Collins guest stars on the Mortgage Marketing Expert podcast
January 17, 2020 The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Arch MI. This week, we’re bringing you something special – our first-ever cross over bonus episode. In this bonus episode, Collins sits down with Phil Treadwell, the vice president of development and regional manager at Mason-McDuffie, who also happens to be the host of fellow Industry Syndicate podcast the Mortgage Marketing Expert. The two discuss Collins’ evolution within the mortgage industry, as well as HousingWire’s emergence as a top industry publication. Additionally, Treadwell and Collins touch… Read More
Continue ReadingHousing News Podcast: HousingWire’s Ben Lane talks Plaid/Visa deal and the fintech consolidation wave
January 15, 2020 The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest headlines, sponsored by our partners at Arch MI. This week, Ben Lane, the managing editor of HousingWire, discusses Visa’s announced acquisition of technology platform and 2019 HW Tech100 winner Plaid. The agreement, which represents a total purchase consideration of $5.3 billion, enables Visa to deliver more value for developers, financial institutions and consumers, according to the company. Here’s more detail on the topic of discussion this week: Last year, Plaid secured investments from Visa and Mastercard. It turns out that Visa’s… Read More
Continue ReadingHousing News Podcast: Finance of America Mortgage’s Bill Dallas on innovation and housing supply
Housing News – Season 2 in 2020 The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in the mortgage, real estate and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by Alcynna Lloyd. The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. January 10, 2020 The Housing News Podcast is a weekly wrap of the top news stories by HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. Each week, HousingWire interviews financial services experts who can help make sense of the latest… Read More
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