

Power House
HousingWire
The Power House podcast brings the biggest names in housing to answer hard-hitting questions about industry trends, operational and growth strategy, and leadership. Join HousingWire's Zeb Lowe every Thursday morning for candid conversations with industry leaders to learn how they’re differentiating themselves from the competition. Hosted and produced by the HousingWire Content Studio.
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May 30, 2023 • 38min
What Homebuyers Want from Lenders: Consumer Expectations in the Mortgage Process (Mortgage Master Class Episode 4)
HousingWire presents the Modern Mortgage Origination Master Class, a four-part educational series presented by Zillow Home Loans. This educational series features four classes designed to bring the HousingWire community expert-level knowledge on modern mortgage origination and how today’s homebuyer navigates the homebuying process.This final installment of this series features a conversation between Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media and Tim Swank, Zillow Home Loans’ Vice President of Mortgage Sales and Real Estate Partnerships. Tim has more than 15 years of experience in the mortgage and lending industry where he has held a variety of positions from his early days as a mortgage banker to executive roles focusing on sales and partnerships.In today’s conversation, they recap what we’ve learned in the past three master class episodes and then discuss what homebuyers want from their lender and how consumer expectations are changing — or not — throughout the modern mortgage process.This includes some of the current needs and expectations from a consumer perspective, how lenders can best engage with borrowers, and how Zillow’s tools and resources can make it easier to get started.Related to this episode:
Connect with Tim on LinkedIn
Master Class: Modern Mortgage Origination
HousingWire’s Youtube Channel
Enjoy the episode!Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

May 25, 2023 • 46min
Forecasts and Key Learnings from MBA Secondary featuring Sarah Wheeler and Mike Fratantoni
Today, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler joins Clayton Collins to discuss and digest primary takeaways and learnings from the Mortgage Bankers Association Secondary and Capital Markets Conference hosted this week in New York City.The episode shifts to an exclusive interview between Sarah Wheeler and Mike Fratantoni, MBA's chief economist and senior vice president of research and industry technology. Mike shares his forecasts for the remainder of 2023, as well as insights on mortgage rates, inflation, home prices, origination volume and more. The full interview initially with Mike Fratantoni aired on the HousingWire Daily Podcast.Related to this episode:
Key Secondary Takeaways from @HousingClayton on Instagram
Check out the HousingWire Daily Podcast
Why are regulators piling on during this down market?
Mortgage industry still in the middle of a storm
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Enjoy the episode!Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

May 24, 2023 • 46min
The Lender & Agent Partnership: How agents and lenders partner to win for their clients (Mortgage Master Class Episode 3)
HousingWire presents the Modern Mortgage Origination Master Class, a four-part educational series presented by Zillow Home Loans. This educational series features four classes designed to bring the HousingWire community expert-level knowledge on modern mortgage origination and how today’s homebuyer navigates the homebuying process.This week’s episode features a conversation between Tracey Velt, Senior Director of data and content for HW Media, and two guests: Racquel Russell, Zillow’s Vice President of Partner Strategy and Operations, and Jason Mitchell, founder of the real estate team brokerage The Jason Mitchell Group.In today’s conversation, they focus on how agents and lenders should be partnering to win for their clients, including how and where prospective buyers should start their homeownership journey, where consumers should start with financing, and some tips for agents selecting a lender. They also unpack some of the benefits and common misconceptions surrounding digital lenders, and how agents can best help prep consumers for the transaction process.Related to this episode:
Connect with Raquel on LinkedIn
Connect with Jason on LinkedIn
Master Class: Modern Mortgage Origination
HousingWire’s Youtube Channel
Enjoy the episode!Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

May 18, 2023 • 1h 4min
ResiShares' co-founder Alex Villacorta on what they can bring to the future of valuations
Today, we welcome Alex Villacorta to the Housing News podcast. Alex is currently the Chief Data Officer and co-founder at ResiShares, a residential real estate investment management firm. Before ResiShares, Alex held positions focusing on data and analytics at both HouseCanary and Clear Capital.Clayton and Alex cover a lot of ground during their conversation, including Alex's professional background, how he's developed his valuation and data expertise over the years, and how he's currently working to apply that data to the investment decisions at ResiShares. They also talk about how other companies in the housing ecosystem should be viewing ResiShares's innovative model and some of the predictions that Alex is making for 2023 and beyond — including how AI is emerging as a dominant technological force in valuation. Related to this episode:
Connect with Alex on LinkedIn
Resi Wrap - Top Ten Surprises of 2023
HousingWire's Youtube Channel
Enjoy the episode!Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

May 15, 2023 • 32min
Home Shopping Trends: How first-time and repeat buyers are approaching the market (Mortgage Master Class Episode 2)
HousingWire presents the Modern Mortgage Origination Master Class, a four-part educational series presented by Zillow Home Loans. This educational series features four classes designed to bring the HousingWire community expert-level knowledge on modern mortgage origination and how today’s homebuyer navigates the homebuying process.This episode features a conversation between Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media and Amanda Pendleton, Zillow’s Home Trends Expert. Amanda works to translate Zillow's housing market data into actionable advice for homeowners, prospective homebuyers and housing professionals. The conversation focuses on current home-buying trends informed by data from Zillow, including demographic trends around age, stage of life and gender. Amanda shares data and expertise on what the modern homebuyer expects from their lender, strategies real estate agents and loan originators can employ to better serve clients, how homebuyers are confronting affordability challenges and some surprising tactics home sellers can deploy to maximize the value of their home. Related to this episode:
Connect with Amanda on LinkedIn
Master Class: Modern Mortgage Origination
Gender gap widens: Growth trend reverses for young single women homeowners | Zillow
The home improvement projects spring sellers should tackle now (and what to skip) | Zillow
She sheds, steam ovens can help sell homes for up to $17,400 more | Zillow
HousingWire’s Youtube Channel
Enjoy the episode!Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

May 11, 2023 • 35min
Side's Steve Capezza on the evolution of the real estate sales model
Today, we're bringing you a crossover episode to your feed straight from the RealTrending podcast hosted by Tracy Velt, Senior Director of Data and Content for Housing Wire and RealTrends. This is a conversation between Tracey and Steve Capezza, the president of Side Real Estate. Steve joined Side earlier this year after a several years-long career with Zillow. We wanted to highlight this episode this week because the conversation really lifts the veil on how the real estate sales model is evolving and how top participants and professionals and real estate are consuming more market share each and every year. Steve also talks about the power behind a teamerage and what brokers should understand about the model. And — he gives a sneak peek into what he'll be speaking about at this year's Gathering of Eagles on June 18-21st in Austin, Texas. Related to this episode:
Side’s Steve Capezza on driving real estate team growth
Connect with Steve on LinkedIn
HousingWire's Youtube Channel
Enjoy the episode!Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

May 8, 2023 • 50min
The Affordability Crunch: Navigating Volatile Mortgage Rates in a Changing Housing Market (Mortgage Master Class Episode 1)
We are dropping a special episode in your feed — the first of a four-part master class series presented by Zillow Home Loans. This series will feature experts from Zillow and across the housing industry who offer insights and strategies you can use today to best navigate today’s rapidly evolving mortgage market. Today’s episode is a conversation between Clayton Collins and Orphe Divounguy, Ph.D., a senior economist for Zillow Home Loans and a member of Zillow’s Economic Research team. Orphe’s research focuses on housing and labor markets, and quantitative methods for policy evaluation.Orphe and Clayton unpack the current dynamics that buyers and sellers are seeing, some of the common public misconceptions about rates, and how affordability challenges and other driving forces are impacting the average homebuyer. They also chat about creative alternatives to traditional financing — and how agents should be seeing these alternatives as an opportunity to better serve consumers.Related to this episode:
Master Class: Modern Mortgage Origination
Home buyers see first signs of affordability relief in months | Zillow
Mortgage rates decline amid expectation of economic slowdown | HousingWire
Buyers are in the game, but interest rates are keeping sellers on the bench | Zillow
Prospective home buyers spend about as much time researching new TVs as they do mortgage lenders | Zillow
Affordability Calculator - How Much House Can I Afford? | Zillow
A Trusted Lending Partner for Agents | Zillow Home Loans
CriticalChoices AchievingHomeownership
Connect with Orphe on LinkedIn
HousingWire's Youtube Channel
Enjoy the episode!Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

May 4, 2023 • 47min
Altos President Mike Simonsen brings some truth to common housing data misconceptions
On this episode of Housing News, we welcome a reoccurring HW Media face — Mike Simonson, the founder and president of Altos Research. During the conversation, he gives Clayton a glimpse into the data that he is seeing during this really pivotal first week of May 2023, shares his summer 2023 forecast, and talks about where he thinks will end the year in terms of total active listings. He also gives Clayton some lessons on how we can best use data to understand what's happening in the housing market for agents, LOs and investors and also shed some light on some misconceptions and ways that people often use real estate and housing data incorrectly. Related to this episode:
Connect with Mike on LinkedIn
Mike on Twitter
Altos Research
HousingWire's Youtube Channel
Enjoy the episode!Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Apr 27, 2023 • 56min
Leigh Brown talks lessons learned in over 20 years in real estate
Today, we welcome Leigh Brown, President of the NC Association of REALTORS® and the Broker/Owner of One Community Real Estate. She's been in the real estate industry for over 20 years and is involved in a lot of facets of the industry and is probably a familiar face and voice to many of you, including those who listen to her Crazy Shit in Real Estate podcast.In today's conversation, Clayton focuses on some of the expertise that Leigh has built through her years as a real estate broker, what she's learned from her podcast, and some of her learnings as being involved in the National Association of Realtors and other trade organizations and events across the industry.Leigh is a great speaker and delivers information in a very entertaining and informative way — that's why we're bringing her to the stage this summer at the Gathering of Eagles in Austin, Texas. You can find out more info about RealTrend's Gathering of Eagles here to learn more and register your spot!Related to this episode:
Connect with Leigh on LinkedIn
Leigh Brown
HousingWire's Youtube Channel
Enjoy the episode!Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Apr 20, 2023 • 46min
UMortgage CFO on growth investments and mindset in a recessionary market
This week, we have the pleasure of welcoming Gil Arbitsman, the Chief Financial Officer at UMortgage, to the Housing News podcast. For those of you that aren't familiar with the UMortgage, it's Anthony Casa's new mortgage origination shop — which Clayton got the chance to chat with Anthony about back in December of last year. Gil is also a 2023 HW Finance Leader Awardee. But this week, the conversation with Gil takes a different approach to look at a lot of the overlooked operational considerations of business development and marketing. Clayton and Gil talk about the financial considerations of growing, acquiring and recruiting in a tough market, really getting a glimpse into it from a top-notch finance leader who has a true focus on growth.Related to this episode:
Connect with Gil on LinkedIn
UMortgage
UMortgage to acquire brokerage firm NXT
Former Guaranteed Rate SVP Ravi Patel and team join UMortgage - HousingWire
HousingWire's Youtube Channel
Enjoy the episode!Gathering of Eagles will bring together the nation's top residential real estate CEOs, Presidents, and C-Level leadership teams to grow, network, and set the pace for what's next in our industry. 2023's Gathering of Eagles is at Omni Barton Creek Resort in the rolling hill country of Austin, Texas from June 18-21. Click here to learn more and register your spot!The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.


