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

Housing Wire

Mortgage professionals must keep up with the new demand for home equity products in the new market. HousingWire: How did you get into Finance of America and the industry? JS: The home equity wealth of our senior homeowners now exceeds 14 trillion, reflecting a growing market. Also, many loan originators go against the grain.

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Revolutionized financing: How Zillow empowers home shoppers with innovative tools

Housing Wire

Prospective homeowners enter the housing market with two questions: Where do I begin? Zillow Home Loans — the platform’s affiliate mortgage lender — pushes the future of financing. However, prospective homebuyers often need to pay more attention to market research and data to guide them in the marketplace.

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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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One mortgage lender abandons the Florida condo market

Housing Wire

Provident told broker partners that all loans in the pipeline must be locked by 11:59 p.m. Additionally, all loans currently locked must be funded by the lock expiration date. In particular it’s created a glut of 30-plus-year-old units on the market, with few takers. PST on Oct. 31 or they’ll be declined.

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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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