• Six keys to tuning up the $15 trillion mortgage servicing sector,Shane Leonard

    Six keys to tuning up the $15 trillion mortgage servicing sector

    I’m a mortgage servicer by trade, but also a music lover and guitar player. A guitar has twelve notes, and from this comes every song, every genre, every hit ever written. Servicing works the same way. The structure is fixed – loan, customer, property – but what you can now build on top of it with A

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  • Waiting until fall won’t make homes more affordable, but here’s what will,Roger Strecker

    Waiting until fall won’t make homes more affordable, but here’s what will

    In the last six years, the typical American home started requiring a much higher salary. Today, according to the Housing Studies’ 2026 State of the Nation’s Housing report, a household needs an income of more than $120,000 to afford the payment on a median-priced home. In 2020, that number was just

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  • Why late payments are stalling construction projects, and how to break the cycle,Petr Marek

    Why late payments are stalling construction projects, and how to break the cycle

    Seventy percent of general contractors and subcontractors consistently face late payments, costing the construction industry nearly 300 billion dollars last year. In today’s economy, GCs and subcontractors are already working on incredibly thin margins. Without cash coming in when planned, there is

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