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Rob Jayne, Chief Production Officer at Nationwide Mortgage Bankers, discusses educating homeowners, helping veterans, and supporting real estate partners. Topics include educating real estate professionals on loan products, challenges in the mortgage market, difficulties for veteran home buyers, and the importance of positivity and mindset in the industry.

On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami about whether Wall Street investors have really bought a large number of homes in the last few years. The two also discuss new home sales and how they relate to lower mortgage rates.Related to this episode: What the new home sales report shows about labor market risk HousingWire | YouTube Enjoy the episode!The HousingWire Daily podcast examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each morning, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted and produced by the HW Media team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Managing Editor James Kleimann about all the news that happened at the MBA Secondary conference this week, from the VA to the CFPB, plus credit scores and that Freddie Mac proposal on buying certain closed-end second mortgage loans.Related to this episode: VA to roll out temporary fix to buyer agent commission problem Chopra: Credit reporting industry’s fee hikes ‘raise big questions’ HousingWire | YouTube Enjoy the episode!The HousingWire Daily podcast examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each morning, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted and produced by the HW Media team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami discusses the cooling trend in existing home prices this year. Topics include the impact of seasonal trends on the housing market, mortgage rate lockdown effects on inventory, and home price trends in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana. The episode also covers mortgage refinancing trends and ends with playful banter and podcast promotion.

Mike Fratantoni, Chief Economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association, discusses housing market trends including mortgage rates, home equity levels, home prices, and lender profitability. Topics covered include challenges of increasing origination costs, impact of low mortgage rates on decisions, shift away from adjustable-rate mortgages, discrepancies in population estimates, growth in home equity, and navigating interest rate spreads in mortgage banking.

Interim CEO at Optimal Blue, Scott Smith, discusses competition in the secondary market, strategies for cost reduction, customer-centric products, partnerships, risk management, Optimal Blue acquisition by Constellation, market outlook, investment challenges, and future planning for lenders.

Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami discusses recession signals impacting housing and mortgage rates. Topics include rent inflation, historical home prices during recessions, mortgage rates' influence on housing demand, analyzing rate changes on housing, affordability challenges for millennials, predicting recession impact on housing industry, and future trends in real estate based on labor market conditions.

On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Sonu Mittal, senior vice president and head of single-family acquisitions at Freddie Mac, about affordability, repurchases, the cost to originate and more.Related to this episode: Sonu Mittal | LinkedIn Freddie Mac HousingWire | YouTube Enjoy the episode!The HousingWire Daily podcast examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each morning, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted and produced by the HW Media team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami about the CPI report and how the Fed will interpret that data.Related to this episode: Why jobs data is more important than inflation for lower mortgage rates HousingWire | YouTube Enjoy the episode!The HousingWire Daily podcast examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each morning, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted and produced by the HW Media team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Managing Editor James Kleimann about the real estate portal wars heating up between Zillow, Realtor.com and Homes.com.Related to this episode: Realtor.com CEO Damian Eales: CoStar is lying about being the No. 2 portal HousingWire | YouTube Enjoy the episode!The HousingWire Daily podcast examines the most compelling articles reported across HW Media. Each morning, we provide our listeners with a deeper look into the stories coming across our newsrooms that are helping Move Markets Forward. Hosted and produced by the HW Media team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices