HousingWire Daily

One of real estate’s biggest stories of the new year is that luxury real estate group Douglas Elliman has broken off from the Vector Group and is now its own publicly-traded company. For this episode of HousingWire Daily, Douglas Elliman CEO Scott Durkin spoke with HousingWire real estate reporter Matthew Blake about the luxury brokerage’s decision to break away from Vector, whether Wall Street properly values brokerages, and life for real estate agents amid Omicron.

Even while COVID variants affect everything from school closings to supply chains, demand for housing remains unabated. In a rapidly changing environment, what should those in real estate and mortgage expect as far as housing inventory, mortgage rates, home prices and more? In this episode of HousingWire Daily, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler and HW+ Managing Editor Brena Nath discuss articles by economists in our forecast series that tackle these issues.

Last week’s jobs report missed estimates, but the overall picture is still very positive, with total unemployment at 3.9%. In this episode of HousingWire Daily, Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami joins Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler to discuss the jobs report and the significance of having both the unemployment rate and mortgage interest rates under 4%. 

After a quiet holiday period the FHFA announced big news this week for those in mortgage. On Wednesday they hiked fees for high-balance and second-home loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, then rejected the long-awaited Duty to Serve plans from the GSEs.In this episode of HousingWire Daily, Senior Mortgage Reporter Georgia Kromrei joins Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler to discuss the news out of D.C. this week and how that impacts mortgage lending.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending. In this episode, Tracey Velt, editorial director at RealTrends, interviews Ryan Serhant, the founder of New York-based brokerage SERHANT. and the star of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing: New York” and “Sell it Like Serhant.”Serhant came on the show to give his opinion on the iBuyer business model, discuss the future of real estate teams, and dispel any misconceptions that people might have about his brokerage.

For this week’s episode of Houses in Motion, which is part of HousingWire Daily,  the founder of AVM testing company AVMetrics Lee Kennedy spoke with HousingWire real estate reporter Matthew Blake about the capabilities, limitations, and necessity of AVMs, as well as the complex data that goes into making decisions. 

What’s 2022 got in store for those in origination and servicing? We unpack the uncertain future on today’s HousingWire Daily with guest Brena Nath, managing editor of HW+. In this episode of HousingWire Daily, Nath joins Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler to discuss the predictive articles in the January issue of HousingWire magazine, which includes experts like the MBA’s Marina Walsh on the possibility of LO layoffs and what the latest forbearance exits mean for servicers.

Housing demand soared in 2021, putting upward pressure on home prices as homebuyers competed for scarce inventory. But Logan Mohtashami, HousingWire’s lead analyst, doesn’t think the run-up in prices means we’re due for a housing crash.In this episode of HousingWire Daily, Mohtashami joins Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler to outline what was good, bad and actually excellent about the housing market in 2021. The two discuss Mohtashami’s 2021 end-of-year recap of the housing market, as well as his housing market forecast for 2022.

This episode of HousingWire Daily is a crossover with RealTrending and features an interview with Robert Reffkin, the CEO of Compass. Reffkin looks back on Compass’ growth over the past decade and shares what he thinks will be the driving force behind the company moving forward, including a more agent-focused approach and the development of more core services.HousingWire Daily examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each afternoon, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by the HW team and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch.

The year 2021 is ending with the news that COVID  infections are, again, on the rise nationally. What this means for real estate is more of the same, said Ken Johnson, a real estate economist at Florida Atlantic University, and that’s not a good thing.On this episode of Houses in Motion, part of HousingWire Daily, Johnson discussed with HousingWire Real Estate Reporter Matthew Blake that the public’s and government response to COVID could mitigate plans to increase mortgage interest rates. Also, the construction of new inventory could further stall.