HousingWire Daily

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily continues our Women of Influence series and features an interview with Vanessa Famulener, the president of homes at HomeLight.  During the interview, Famulener discusses what she and her team at HomeLight plan to do with its new $363 million funding round and how it found success in its cash offer program launch. Additionally, she shares her thoughts on where home prices, competition, and bidding wars are heading as the market moves into a new year. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily continues the Rundown miniseries, hosted by HousingWire’s Editor-in-Chief Sarah Wheeler and Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami. In this episode, Mohtashami discusses what the jobs data, changes in the bond market, and the Omicron variant could mean for housing.Mohtashami also explains why he doesn’t expect mortgage rates to rise in 2022, and why he’s raised his first recession warning flag. 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 crossover episode with RealTrending. In this episode, Tracey Velt, editorial director at RealTrends, a HousingWire sister company, interviews Tommie Wehrle, who is the co-chair of the LGBTQ+ REALPRIDE Realogy employee group, a Coldwell Banker Realty instructor and broker-associate, and member of the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance.During the episode, Wehrle discusses some of the common issues encountered when serving the LGBTQ+ community and how to combat them by building a more inclusive and diverse brokerage team.

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 Mike Sklarz, managing director of the collateral analytics division of Black Knight, and Damien Weldon, vice president of real estate analytics at Black Knight, to discuss what’s next in the valuations space. 

What shifts happening in real estate today will change how homes are bought and sold? And which disruptions will be forgotten five years from now? For this episode of Houses in Motion, part of HousingWire Daily, HousingWire real estate reporter Matthew Blake posed those questions to Shaival Shah, the CEO of Ribbon, a New York City company that, up to now, has been giving cash loans to prospective homebuyers in half-a-dozen southern states. Ribbon is a “power buyer,” meaning that they facilitate a consumer making a cash offer on a home. Shah contends that cash consistently stands out to sellers weighing offers. Ribbon’s business model raises a few big-picture questions. One, will we continue into the indefinite future with a high-demand real estate market that requires extraordinary measures like an all-cash offer? Also, is Shah right that there is a growing legion of single-family home investors hoarding inventory? And where do traditional intermediaries, namely the real estate agent, fit into Ribbon’s plans? 

Today’s HousingWire Daily continues the Rundown miniseries, hosted by HousingWire’s editor-in-chief Sarah Wheeler and lead analyst Logan Mohtashami. In this episode, Mohtashami discusses how the new COVID variant, Omicron, will impact inflation and whether or not it will send mortgage rates lower.Mohtashami also discusses his HW+ article that examines the latest pending home sales report that shows a big beat of estimates. According to him, we can officially label the 2021 housing crash bears as even worse than the 2020 housing crash bears.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 and produced by Alcynna Lloyd and Elissa Branch.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a sponsored Fannie Mae episode, hosted by HousingWire’s managing editor of Content Solutions Maleesa Smith. In today’s episode, Smith is joined by Steve Holden, Vice President of Single-Family Analytics at Fannie Mae, to discuss what lenders can do to help more renters become homeowners. 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.

The twofold problems with residential real estate appraisers have become well-established. One is an array of well-publicized stories of appraisers undervaluing a home because the homeowner is Black. The other, arguably related issue, is that the ranks of U.S. appraisers are perilously thin and the profession is dominated by white men, whose average age is 61, according to the Appraisal Institute. In this episode of Houses in Motion, a series that is part of the HousingWire Daily podcast lineup, St. Petersburg, Florida-based appraiser Francois “Frank” Gregoire discusses both these issues, but also dives into specifics about what professional appraisal organizations, the federal government, and individual appraisers can do to address them.This podcast gets into the weeds at times with, for example, how someone becomes qualified to become an appraiser, and how those standards may change. But these are the specific discussions that will shape appraisers’ future relevance in a housing transaction.

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily continues our Women of Influence series and features an interview with Katie Johnson, the chief member experience officer and general counsel at the National Association of Realtors. During the interview, Johnson talks about her start in the real estate industry and her surprising path to the NAR general counsel after only six years at the organization. She also shares her teams’ COVID-19 preparedness response and their efforts to demystify NAR’s professional services for homebuyers.

Today’s HousingWire Daily begins the Rundown miniseries, hosted by HousingWire’s editor-in-chief Sarah Wheeler and lead analyst Logan Mohtashami. In this episode, Mohtashami discusses his latest HW+ article that examines the National Association of Realtors’ existing home sales report that indicates sales grew 0.8% in October.According to Mohtashami, this growth is above his trend sales peak of 6.2 million, meaning existing home sales are now outperforming as demographics remain strong in 2021. The discussion also includes insight on changes in the real estate market over the last week and how they impact housing on a macro level. Mohtahsimi examines inflation, inventory, and shares his predictions on how mortgage rates will behave in 2022.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.