HousingWire Daily

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover with the Housing News podcast, where HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler interviews the Chief Marketing Officer at Fannie Mae, Steve James. During the episode, James talks about the company's Here to Help initiative, which provides helpful information and resources for renters and homeowners during the COVID-19 pandemic.He also shares some insight into what marketing strategies look like for a company as highly regulated as Fannie Mae, and what he thinks the future holds for GSEs. 

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily features an interview with Selma Hepp, the deputy chief economist at CoreLogic. Selma joins us to discuss some of the data released from CoreLogic’s most recent Home Price Insights Report, which looks at home price trends and economic forecasts. During the interview, she discusses local and national home price growth acceleration and the factors behind affordability issues for first-time homebuyers. Additionally, she explains some of CoreLogic’s forecasted home price trends for the rest of 2021 and 2022 as the market starts to cool.

In this week's Houses in Motion, which is part of HousingWire Daily, we spoke with Michael Nourmand, one of the most consistent and established Beverly Hills brokers. Nourmand’s father founded Nourmand & Associates, an LA-based real estate brokerage, and Nourmand has seen firsthand the rapid changes in west Los Angeles real estate, including the influence of reality television shows and the impacts of climate change.We spoke with Nourmand about these changes, and how what happens in Beverly Hills is both relevant and irrelevant to the rest of the country’s housing market.

Today’s episode of HousingWire Daily continues our Women of Influence series and features an interview with Nicole Booth, the Executive Vice President of Public Affairs at Notarize. Booth joined Notarize in 2020 and has over 15 years of experience working with governmental bodies and advocacy groups. During the interview, she shares her experience with digital inclusivity, including her advocacy for more RON legislation and adoption for consumers.Nicole also discusses her work with policy and industry relations at Notarize and shares what the past year has looked like for the fintech space. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily episode features an interview with Andy Walden, an economist and Vice President of market research for Black Knight Data & Analytics.During the episode, Walden discusses Black Knight’s most recent Mortgage Monitor report that claims despite improvements in equity positions among forbearance participants, homeowner equity alone is not enough to prevent foreclosure starts. 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. If you have a pitch or an inquiry relating to podcasts, you can reach our team at alloyd@housingwire.com.

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with the RMD Podcast, a monthly podcast covering hot topics in the reverse mortgage industry hosted by Chris Clow, editor at HW Media’s latest acquisition, Reverse Mortgage Daily. The episode features an interview with Jamie Hopkins, managing director of Carson Coaching and director of retirement research at Carson Group, as well as a member of the Academy for Home Equity in Financial Planning. In this episode, Hopkins explains why it’s hard for consumers to remove emotions when making financial decisions, as well as how the reverse mortgage industry approaches long-term care as the COVID-19 pandemic shapes the business’ future.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.

Today’s HousingWire Daily episode features an interview with Shayna Arrington, the Chief Compliance Officer at The Money Source. Arrington sat down with HousingWire assistant editor Jordan White to discuss the current risk and compliance issues facing servicers.Additionally, the pair examine some of the CFPB’s changes to Regulation X and discuss the new Fair Debt Collection Practices Act rules that are going into effect in November. 

Today’s HousingWire Daily features a crossover episode with RealTrending. In this episode, Tracey Velt, editorial director at HW Media Company RealTrends, interviews the CEO and founder of Fathom Holdings, Josh Harley.Harley discusses Fathom’s recent growth and its going public over the past year, as well as plans to create a comparable industry-friendly service like Zillow. He also shares his thoughts on some of the biggest misconceptions surrounding Fathom’s virtual business model. 

Today’s episode of Housing Wire Daily features Ryan Gorman, the CEO and President of Coldwell Banker, one of the most venerable and recognizable brokerages in the country. It’s also a brokerage that is facing litigation over agent’s pay structure and competing with Compass and several other outfits that offer increasingly favorable commission splits to agents. In this episode of our Houses in Motion series, Gorman spoke with Matthew Blake, senior real estate reporter for HousingWire, about the issues facing Coldwell Banker and the industry as a whole.

Today, HousingWire Daily is joined by Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group’s Chrissy Zotzmann Brown for the Women of Influence podcast miniseries. As the company’s chief operations officer, Brown leverages nearly 25 years of extensive mortgage operations and sales experience.In this episode, Brown discusses her leadership over the past 12 months, which have guided Atlantic Bay to offer a full-stop digital mortgage experience for mortgage bankers and borrowers. She also offers advice to other women who aspire to her level of success.