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March 18, 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 and Quicken Loans Mortgage Services. This week, Sherry Graziano, the head of Mortgage Omni experience at SunTrust, which has now been named Truist, joins the Housing News Podcast for episode two of season 3. In this episode, which was recorded two weeks ago during the nation’s interest rate debacle, Graziano discusses the housing market’s low-interest-rate environment, which continues to change day-to-day, and what it means for the mortgage industry as more and more lenders report a surge… Read More

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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April 12, 2019Phil Hall Cities where marijuana has been legalized enjoy more vibrant housing markets versus localities where marijuana is still illegal, according to a study from Clever Real Estate. The new study determined that between 2014 and 2019, cities that allowed retail marijuana dispensaries to operate saw local home values increase $22,888 more than those where marijuana remains illegal. From 2017 to 2019, cities that legalized recreational marijuana usage saw home values increase $6,337 more than those where marijuana is illegal. The report highlighted the examples Colorado and Washington, the first states to legalize cannabis for recreational use. According to the study, since opening their first dispensaries in 2014. Colorado home values… Read More

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