In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Selma Hepp, Chief Economist at CoreLogic, to get her take on what’s happening in the housing economy. Selma shares CoreLogic’s forecast for 2024 home prices and mortgage rates, talks about the biggest surprises from 2023, and offers insights into how they hit the mark on their 2023 forecast when everyone else was expecting prices to fall. She also discusses CoreLogic’s new Climate Risk Analysis platform and the growing impact of insurance costs in risky states.

About Selma Hepp

Selma Hepp is the Chief Economist for CoreLogic, America’s largest provider of advanced property and ownership information, analytics and data-enabled services. Selma leads the economics team, which is responsible for analyzing, interpreting and forecasting housing and economic trends in real estate, mortgage and insurance.

Prior to joining CoreLogic in 2020, Selma was Chief Economist and Vice President of Business Intelligence for Pacific Union International, later acquired by Compass, where she oversaw the vital economic and technology intelligence to drive the expanding brokerage’s success. Selma also held the role of Chief Economist for Trulia; Senior Economist for the California Association of Realtors; and Economist and Manager for Public Policy and Homeownership research for the National Association of Realtors, as well as a special research assistant at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Selma frequently appears on local and national radio and television programs and has been widely quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and many industry trade publications such as National Mortgage News and HousingWire. Selma received the HousingWire Women of Influence Award in 2022.

Selma graduated from the State University of New York, Buffalo with an M.A. in Economics and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

CoreLogic’s 2024 home price & mortgage rate forecast
Why their 2023 forecast for slight home price appreciation was so unusual at the time, and yet it turned out to be precisely correct
Other big housing market surprises from 2023
Her biggest takeaways for 2024, including how much the mortgage market will rebound this year and why
The surprising strength in refis in 2024
Her take on the most important trends in housing policy for 2024
What she’s worried about macro-economically and with housing in particular over the near future
Why Phoenix and Las Vegas outperformed Austin last year - even when all were big boom markets during the pandemic
Key findings from CoreLogic’s Quarterly investor report
CoreLogic’s new Climate Risk Analysis platform and the growing impact of insurance costs in risky states.

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