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HousingWire
The HousingWire Daily podcast brings the full picture of the most compelling stories in the housing market reported across HousingWire. Each morning, listen to editor in chief Sarah Wheeler talk to leading industry voices and get a deeper look behind the scenes of the top mortgage and real estate stories. Hosted and produced by the HousingWire Content Studio.
Episodes
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Dec 19, 2022 • 32min
Logan Mohtashami on why the Fed wants more people to lose their job
On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami about what happened last week — from inflation to the Fed hiking rates to mortgage rates falling.HW Media articles related to this episode:
Fed’s 50 bps rate hike could trigger falling mortgage rates
Cooler inflation data sends mortgage rates lower
Enjoy the episode!HousingWire Daily 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.

Dec 16, 2022 • 30min
The stress in the secondary market
On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Senior Mortgage Reporter Bill Conroy to talk about stress in the secondary market and how a lack of liquidity is affecting mortgage lenders.HW Media articles related to this episode:
The mortgage market right-sizing is well underway. When will normalcy return?
Inside the collapse of RMF, America’s fifth-largest reverse mortgage lender
Enjoy the episode!HousingWire Daily 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.

Dec 15, 2022 • 31min
Logan Mohtashami on the Fed rate hike and why the bond market doesn’t care
On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami about the Fed’s rate hike announcement and how the bond market’s reaction is likely to drive down mortgage rates.HW Media articles related to this episode:
Fed’s 50 bps rate hike could trigger falling mortgage rates
Cooler inflation data sends mortgage rates lower
Is the market pivoting ahead of the Fed?
Enjoy the episode!HousingWire Daily 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.

Dec 14, 2022 • 28min
Inside the collapse of a top reverse mortgage lender
On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Chris Clow, editor of Reverse Mortgage Daily, about some of the seismic shifts in the reverse industry over the last two weeks, including Finance of America buying AAG, the collapse of Reverse Mortgage Funding and more.HW Media articles related to this episode:
Inside the collapse of RMF, America’s fifth-largest reverse mortgage lender
FoA to acquire AAG’s DTC retail business
One way reverse mortgages can fund aging in place: Home renovations
Enjoy the episode!HousingWire Daily 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.

Dec 13, 2022 • 25min
The lenders betting big on the correspondent channel
On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Managing Editor James Kleimann about the lenders entering the correspondent channel and those exiting wholesale. In addition, the two discuss Brian Covey leaving loanDepot for Revolution Mortgage.HW Media articles related to this episode:
In a brutal market, lenders seize on correspondent
U.S. Bank inherited a wholesale lending business. It’s shutting it down
How boutique lender Revolution Mortgage plans its expansion
Enjoy the episode!HousingWire Daily 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.

Dec 12, 2022 • 32min
Logan Mohtashami on what to expect from inflation week
On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami about the inflation data we’re going to get this week and how he expects the Fed to react.HW Media articles related to this episode:
Is the market pivoting ahead of the Fed?
Mortgage rates collapse on softer inflation data
Enjoy the episode!HousingWire Daily 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.

Dec 9, 2022 • 32min
The shakeup continues for reverse mortgage lenders
On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Managing Editor James Kleimann about Reverse Mortgage Funding filing for chapter 11, the lawsuit around EPM’s sports sponsorship, and Ryan Gorman’s departure from Anywhere Real Estate.HW Media articles related to this episode:
Inside the collapse of RMF, America’s fifth-largest reverse mortgage lender
After margin call, EPM stopped paying Jesse Iwuji Motorsports sponsorship: lawsuit
Gorman exits Coldwell Banker amid C-Suite shakeup at Anywhere
Enjoy the episode!HousingWire Daily 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.

Dec 8, 2022 • 35min
Logan Mohtashami on purchase apps and lower mortgage rates
On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami about purchase apps and mortgage rates, as well as answering a listener’s question about a potential housing crash.HW Media articles related to this episode:
LOs, mortgage rates and the long, cold winter ahead
Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the market
Enjoy the episode!HousingWire Daily 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

Dec 7, 2022 • 30min
How agents and brokers are innovating in a challenging market
On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler is joined by Editorial Director Tracey Velt to talk about some of the real estate companies that have grown through previous challenging economic cycles as well as the innovative approaches agents and brokers are taking in this market. HW Media articles related to this episode:
Against all odds: Brokerage lessons from firms that grew during the last recession
Against All Odds: The story of how 17 firms found a way to grow and prosper in the worst of times.
How LOs get into a real estate agent’s circle
Enjoy the episode!HousingWire Daily 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.

Dec 6, 2022 • 33min
Jillian White on tackling appraisal bias
On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Jillian White, head of growth at Aloft, about racial bias in appraisals. Jillian, a Black appraiser who serves on the Appraisal Institute's Government Relations Committee and is an incoming trustee of the Appraisal Foundation's board of trustees, talks about the unconscious bias she thinks is at play in home valuations and the potential cures.HW Media articles related to this episode:
Sandra Thompson talks volatility, affordability challenges, appraisal bias and more
What did the PAVE report on appraisal bias find?
Enjoy the episode!HousingWire Daily 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.


