Podcast/Vodcast

April 16, 2020

Podcast – Frank Nothaft on “Complexity Simplified” with Dr. A...

BY FRANK NOTHAFT HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, REAL ESTATE In this podcast posted April 7, 2020, Frank Nothaft, the chief economist of CoreLogic, describes the impact to single family transaction volumes and US regional home price trends as the COVID-19 pandemic begins to take hold. Albert Lee, Summit C...

March 17, 2020

HECMs: Programmatic Issues

Over-appraisal, under-maintenance, tax/fee nonpayment and LIBOR sunset One goal of a reverse mortgage is to help elderly homeowners convert part of their home equity into a monthly income supplement.  Since the Great Recession, the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage, or HECM, has been the prima...

March 12, 2020

Podcast – Frank Nothaft on The Real Wealth Show with Kathy Fettke

Analyzing the housing market can be complicated. There are so many opinions on issues that impact investors including which are the best markets, single-family versus multi-family investing, housing inventory, demographic shifts, renter preferences, mortgage rates, the strength of the U.S. econom...

February 14, 2020

The End of LIBOR

Hi, I’m Jacqueline Doty, and today I’m going to discuss the end of LIBOR, what it means for lenders and how they should prepare. Sometime after 2021, LIBOR, the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate – the index used to set many adjustable mortgage rates, is expected to be discontinued. Why is it being d...

December 10, 2019

Know Your Opportunity:Leveraging Data-Driven Insights to Get the Mo...

Opportunity Zones are low income census tracts designated to give investors certain relief from capital gains tax on profits that are invested in those communities, whether it’s in a business or real estate development. The program has the potential to revitalize places traditionally overlooked f...

July 10, 2019

Wildfires and Housing Markets

CoreLogic Economic Outlook: July 2019 June marked the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season and the start of another arid summer in the West.  More than 500,000 acres have been burned by wildfires during the first six months of 2019, and there is increasing fire risk as the summer progr...

March 1, 2019

Housing Recessions and Recoveries

Economic Observations, March 2019 Lately, it seems like the roof of the housing market might cave in. Several of the major housing market indicators have shown much volatility as of late. For instance, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index fell for seven straight months, new home sa...

February 6, 2019

Podcast – Innovation in Housing: Getting Real about Artificia...

We continue the conversation about the evolution of Artificial Intelligence and how the role of humans – human fear and human augmentation – and regulation will affect its adoption. Amanda Rabideau, HostPrincipal, Innovation and Solutions Excellence, CoreLogic Rob Carpenter, GuestDist...

February 4, 2019

Podcast – Innovation in Housing: Getting Real about Artificia...

Over the past 50 years we have seen Artificial Intelligence evolve from a far-off sci-fi concept in films like 2001: A Space Odyssey or The Terminator to an everyday technology like Siri or Alexa. Today we’re going to talk about what is Artificial Intelligence, where it is goi...

November 8, 2018

The New Normal in Homes Sales is About a Million Fewer Sales Per Year

Since the housing recovery started taking hold in 2012, we’ve been searching for signs that the recovery is complete. While home prices and delinquencies have both returned to their pre-crisis levels, home sales show signs of lagging behind. Figure 1 shows the number of home sales (both resales a...