PERSON OF THE WEEK: Checking In On the Job Market With Robert Baron
This week, MortgageOrb spoke with Robert Baron, president of American Real Estate Executive Search, an executive search firm that focuses on roles in...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Jim Simcoe And The New Green Brokers
Jim Simcoe isn't your typical mortgage broker. He's actually an EcoBroker, combining the traditional aspects of the real estate lending world with today's...
BLOG VIEW: A Case For Conversation
Mortgage industry players who convened in Washington, D.C., this week for the Coalition for Mortgage Industry Solutions' (CMIS) Executive Leadership Summit saw firsthand...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: J.C. Boggs Weighs In On Washington’s Ideas
This week, MortgageOrb talked housing-market issues and the government's appropriate role with J.C. Boggs, a true insider on both subjects. Boggs is partner...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: The 411 From California
John Clark Brown Jr., an attorney in Culver City, Calif., and longtime contributor to Servicing Management, checked in with Mortgage Orb this week...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Katalina M. Bianco Sifts Through The Subprime Rubble
In the midst of the current crisis facing the industry, it is not unusual to pause and wonder how things spun out of...
PERSONS OF THE WEEK: Jonathan Dracos And John Fraser Of Investcorp’s Real Estate Group
For this week's edition of Person of the Week, MortgageOrb conducted a joint Q&A with Jonathan Dracos and John Fraser, co-heads of the...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: First American’s Ty Miller
This week, Mortgage Orb presented a few questions to Ty Miller, chief operating officer of First American First Lien Outsourcing. Miller, who spent...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Richard Rydstrom And A New Coalition Of The Willing
In the face of mounting challenges and growing concerns facing the nation's economy, a new coalition of mortgage, finance and credit industry professionals...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: David Hamermesh Analyzes Mortgage Industry ‘Failures’ And Remedies
Who is to blame? What is to be done? Both of these questions have been circulating among industry participants and observers alike for...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Good News From Default Servicing? Come Again?
Robert Smiley, an executive vice president with U.S. Bank Home Mortgage, oversees a multibillion-dollar servicing portfolio consisting of nearly 1 million prime mortgages....
PERSON OF THE WEEK: An Economic Diagnosis From Robert M. Pardes
When Robert M. Pardes talks, people should listen. After all, he knows more than a thing or two about the mortgage banking industry....
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Thomas Morgan Talks Government Bailouts, Refinances And That Toxic CMBS
This week, MortgageOrb sought the perspectives of Thomas Morgan, general counsel and senior director at Tremont Realty Capital, a Boston-headquartered commercial real estate...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Bruce Brown’s Online Advice For Worried Homeowners
You're a homeowner and you're concerned there will be a foreclosure in your future - who are you going to seek for advice?...
Person of the Week: Brad Messinger On Outsourcing In Commercial Real Estate Finance
This week, MortgageOrb spoke with Brad Messinger, senior vice president of the commercial markets group at Zenta, a provider of knowledge- and business-process...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Phillip Comeau And ‘Tranche Warfare’
Servicing industry veteran Phillip Comeau checked in with MortgageOrb this week to address a few timely inquiries related to subprime servicing, credit counseling...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Robert D. Ashby Plumbs The Mortgage Blogosphere
In the past few years, blogging has reshaped the depth and scope of communications at all levels of society. Mortgage banking is not...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: David Cohen And On-Book Commercial Lending
This week, MortgageOrb spoke with David A. Cohen, regional director at GE Real Estate, where the balance-sheet lending program continues operating at high...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Randal O’Toole And The Case Against Growth-Management Planning
What role did state and municipal government play in the shortage of affordable housing? According to Randal O'Toole, a senior fellow at the...
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Excel Innovations President On Serving Borrowers
This week, the Orb chats with Keith McMaster, president of Excel Innovations. His company focuses on service of process, skip tracing and other...