HousingWire Daily

Private label securitizations were on fire this year. Helped along early in 2021 by a GSE cap on investment properties, the private label market saw huge year-over-year increases. In today’s episode of HousingWire Daily, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Senior Mortgage Reporter Bill Conroy, who covers the secondary mortgage market for HousingWire, on the rise of the private label market, the new conforming loan limits, and a recent report by Kroll Ratings on risky loan-review practices.

In this episode of HousingWire Daily, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami on his 2022 forecast, discussing what we can expect over the next year and what has surprised him most as he looks at the data from last year.Mohtashami is one of the few experts predicting mortgage rates could actually go lower in 2022 based on the 10-year yield. 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.

Over the last several weeks we’ve seen layoffs of mortgage loan officers and other staff at Freedom Mortgage and Interfirst Mortgage, as well as a complete PR nightmare that resulted from Better.com laying off 900 staff members on a Zoom call.This week, Senior Mortgage Reporter Matthew Blake wrote about how Knock, a power buyer, announced it was going to cut LO salaries on Tuesday, then reversed course after hearing from its staff. On this episode of HousingWire Daily Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews Blake about his reporting on the Knock story and what it might mean in the context of a quickly changing home-buying landscape.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features another episode of the Preparing for What’s Next miniseries, sponsored by Black Knight and hosted by Managing Editor of Content Solutions Maleesa Smith. In today’s episode, Smith is joined by Julian Grey, executive vice president of Mortgage & Capital Markets Product Management at Black Knight, to conclude the miniseries and discuss what is next across multiple facets of the housing industry. 

Frederick Peters started in real estate in 1980, and he began managing the family business, the Warburg Peters brokerage, in 1991.  But New York real estate’s days of old - property listings written on file cards, agents tipping doormen to generate leads - has changed, and with it Peters’ brokerage. Realogy-owned Coldwell Banker bought the brokerage in October. Peters said his agents could not keep up with competitors absent the merger. For this episode of Houses in Motion, a podcast miniseries that is part of HousingWire Daily,  HousingWire real estate reporter Matthew Blake interviewed Peters about his thoughts and feelings behind the merger, and what has changed in New York City real estate.

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily continues our Women of Influence series and features an interview with Christy Schwartz, the chief accounting officer at Opendoor. Schwartz joined us on the show today to discuss her role at Opendoor and how she found herself in the industry.Additionally, she shares a glimpse behind the scenes of Opendoor’s going public last year and some of the unexpected things about doing the entire process remotely. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily continues the Rundown miniseries, hosted by HousingWire’s Editor-in-Chief Sarah Wheeler and featuring Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami. In this episode, Mohtashami discusses homebuilders and the all-time lows in housing inventory.Mohtashami also discusses inflation growth and how the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool down the economy will impact mortgage rates.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 newsroom that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by Jordan White and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a sponsored Reggora episode, hosted by HousingWire’s managing editor of Content Solutions, Maleesa Smith.In today’s episode, Smith is joined by Brian Zitin, CEO and co-founder of Reggora, to discuss what 2022 has in store for appraisals.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 newsroom that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted by Jordan White and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features another episode of the Preparing for What’s Next miniseries, sponsored by Black Knight and hosted by Managing Editor of Content Solutions Maleesa Smith. In today’s episode, Smith is joined by Michael Saccento, senior director of product management, advisory & data science products at Black Knight, as well as Richard Lombardi, senior vice president of data strategy & innovation at Black Knight, to discuss what the future holds for real-time data and analytics.

For this episode of Houses in Motion, a podcast series that is part of HousingWire Daily, real estate reporter Matthew Blake interviewed Howard “Hoby” Hanna IV, grandchild of the founder of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, a brokerage founded in Pittsburgh 64 years ago. They discuss the current level of competition in real estate, and operating a modern brokerage and Hanna was candid about where his brokerage, a private company, generates revenue and how it manages costs and operations of its marketing and technology.