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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

Potential homeowners should be able to handle this confusion in a world where technology and digital tools rule customer service. Zillow Home Loans — the platform’s affiliate mortgage lender — pushes the future of financing. Financing is an unavoidable part of the home buying journey for most buyers. Click Here

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

Housing Wire

In today’s economy, mortgage rates and housing expenses have consistently risen. 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? This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Finance leader Kevin Thompson on driving financial excellence in real estate

Housing Wire

Nominations for HousingWires 2025 Finance Leaders Award are open now through January 31, 2025. Nominations are still open for the 2025 Finance Leaders award. With an eye toward the future, Thompson shared his insights on economic trends, budgeting strategies, and the pivotal role of data and technology in shaping the housing landscape.

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FinLocker says it will cover 100% of mortgage verification costs

Housing Wire

Self-branded “financial fitness” platform FinLocker announced Wednesday that it will cover 100% of the verification costs for mortgage borrowers who use lenders’ FinLocker-powered apps. This is about fundamentally transforming how the mortgage ecosystem works together.”

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CFPB rule applies mortgage protections to clean energy loans

Housing Wire

The rule applies existing protections for residential mortgages to borrowers who seek PACE loans to upgrade or renovate their homes through clean energy technology. PACE loans which are often used to finance environmentally minded renovations, like the addition of solar panels have led to financial instability for some borrowers.

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Rocket Companies to acquire Mr. Cooper in bombshell $9.4B deal

Housing Wire

Rocket Companies is buying Mr. Cooper , America’s largest mortgage servicer, in a market-shattering deal that could reshape the mortgage industry for years to come. That’s one out of every six mortgages in America. Cooper, will be president and CEO of Rocket Mortgage, reporting to Krishna.

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