HousingWireHousingWire Who doesn’t have a podcast these days? Anyone with a microphone and a cup of coffee can wax poetic about the ebbs and flows of the industry. We dug for podcast gold to compile our list of the best real estate podcasts to help you level up your business…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire A stagnant housing market hasn’t held back Zillow’s mortgage business. On its third-quarter earnings call Wednesday evening, the real estate portal giant reported that its mortgage revenue rose 63% year over year, driven by an 80% jump in purchase origination volume. Compared to the first nine months of 2023,…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Guild Holdings Co., the parent company of Guild Mortgage, sustained a $66.9 million loss in the third quarter of 2024 after delivering a profit of $37 million in the prior quarter. Meanwhile, its origination volume increased to $6.9 billion, up 6% from the second quarter and 49% higher than…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO), the company that retains the rights to the market’s widely adopted consumer credit-risk assessment methodology, announced on Wednesday that it has increased its wholesale royalty from $3.50 to $4.95 per score for mortgage originators. “At this new per-score royalty, the amount collected by FICO will…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election and will become the 47th President of the United States. But what could a change in administration mean for the real estate industry that is keeping a close eye on Nov. 26, when the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement…
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