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Announcing the 2025 Finance Leaders

Housing Wire

HousingWire is proud to announce the 2025 Finance Leaders, recognizing 40 of the most impactful finance executives in the mortgage and real estate industries. This years honorees represent the top talent in corporate finance, ensuring their companies remain competitive in a dynamic housing market.

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Revolutionized financing: How Zillow empowers home shoppers with innovative tools

Housing Wire

Zillow Home Loans — the platform’s affiliate mortgage lender — pushes the future of financing. Users can enter a potential home price, down payment, interest rate, loan terms, property taxes, insurance costs, and homeowners association (HOA) fees. Financing is an unavoidable part of the home buying journey for most buyers.

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CFPB sues Vanderbilt, a Berkshire Hathaway lender, over risky home loans

Housing Wire

Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance , part of Warren Buffetts conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway , has been accused by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) of manipulating underwriting standards and setting borrowers up to fail in manufactured home loans. The consumer watchdog on Monday filed a lawsuit in a U.S.

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Home equity access: How Finance of America bolsters the market with home equity products

Housing Wire

In an exclusive executive conversation, HousingWire sat down with Jonathan Scarpati, senior vice president of Wholesale Production at Finance of America , to explore home equity products, opportunities for mortgage professionals to leverage them, and more. HousingWire: How did you get into Finance of America and the industry?

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More homebuyers seek government-backed loans as an affordability lifeline

Housing Wire

The company’s newest National Housing Market Outlook shows that buyers are gravitating toward government-backed loans in their search for affordability. As a result, more buyers are turning to products like Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans, which accounted for 24% of primary home purchases in 2024, and U.S.

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CFPB rule applies mortgage protections to clean energy loans

Housing Wire

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday announced a final rule governing the Property Assessed Clean Energy ( PACE ) loan program. The rule applies existing protections for residential mortgages to borrowers who seek PACE loans to upgrade or renovate their homes through clean energy technology.

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Better launches voice-based AI loan assistant

Housing Wire

Better Home & Finance, the parent company of digital lender Better.com , launched its voice-based artificial intelligence loan assistant on Thursday. Vishal Garg , founder and CEO of Better, said in a statement that “fulfilling a mortgage loan is labor-intensive and rules-driven, but Betsy automates the process.”

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