Today in Mortgages

Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Michael and Richard dive into some long-awaited news that loan officers everywhere will want to hear—trigger lead spam may finally be on its way out.

There’s promising movement in Washington as new legislation is being introduced to ban or heavily restrict the use of trigger leads. For those unfamiliar, these leads get sold the moment a credit report is pulled—often bombarding borrowers with unwanted calls and confusing messages.

If passed, this could bring much-needed relief to both lenders and clients, restoring trust and cutting down on noise in the mortgage process.

Michael and Richard break down what’s in the proposed bill, what it could mean for the industry, and how soon we might see action. Don’t miss this episode—it’s one we’ve all been waiting for!

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Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. 

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Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. Corporate office located at 10370 Richmond Ave. Suite 900, Houston, TX 77042. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Rich and Michael explore a bold new question: Could Bitcoin soon be a legal payment method for buying a home?

We’re diving into emerging reports suggesting new legislation may be on the table that would make Bitcoin a legitimate option in real estate transactions. While it's still early and the details are limited, this could mark a major shift in how homes are financed—and who can access them.

Also on the docket: the latest Fed meeting and what the central bank had to say about rate changes heading into the fall. Spoiler—markets are listening closely, and so are we.

There's a lot unfolding right now in both housing and finance. Tune in as we break it all down and discuss what this could mean for you and your clients.

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Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. 

Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

See more at TodayInMortgages.com

Want to get expert coaching everyday and have the power of the best Network in Mortgages behind your production business? Learn more here.

Learn more about Network Funding on our parent site. 

Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. Corporate office located at 10370 Richmond Ave. Suite 900, Houston, TX 77042. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Michael and Richard discuss if real legislation for housing is finally in the works.

We are seeing some bipartisan legislation coming together from this Scotsman Guide article: "Senators Scott and Warren release sweeping house package." The package is called The ROAD to Housing Act of 2025. 

Lawmakers are trying to do their best to make housing more affordable. There's still limited information out there about it, but housing is being addressed. From what we can gather the main thing from the bill is to remove a lot of regulatory red tape, so builders can start building more homes. 

We will be paying attention to these efforts, because we all realize the housing market needs help. Listen in as we discuss this and more.
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Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. 

Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

See more at TodayInMortgages.com

Want to get expert coaching everyday and have the power of the best Network in Mortgages behind your production business? Learn more here.

Learn more about Network Funding on our parent site. 

Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. Corporate office located at 10370 Richmond Ave. Suite 900, Houston, TX 77042. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Michael and Richard discuss that the 2025 housing sales forecast is down for the year, and what that means.

Today's article from Real Estate News says "NAR economist downgrades sales forecast, eyes rebound in 2026." As the article says, "It's been a real bummer," but we have a different take on this. Growth estimations are down to 3% from the original 9%, and as we said these forecasts are just their best guesses, because ultimately buyers buy when they are ready. 

Our jobs is to be focused on getting our buyers ready by getting them qualified, and finding the best product. Then when they find the right property it's go time. With exception to the rate, it is a great time to be a buyer. Just make sure they are ready, willing and able. 

Now is the time to get out there and plant some seeds for your future business. Listen in as we discuss this and more.

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Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. 

Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

See more at TodayInMortgages.com

Want to get expert coaching everyday and have the power of the best Network in Mortgages behind your production business? Learn more here.

Learn more about Network Funding on our parent site. 

Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. Corporate office located at 10370 Richmond Ave. Suite 900, Houston, TX 77042. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Michael and Richard discuss if we are stuck in a period of devaluation. 

Home values in top markets aren't growing as fast as they were. Today's article from Fast Company says "Number of housing markets with falling home prices jumps sharply to 109 -- up from 31 in January." This group makes up 36% of the market, but there is still 64% of metro-area markets that are accelerating. 

Remember that people are still looking to buy! The demand is there, now is the time to find opportunity for buyers to get concessions. 

Listen in as we discuss this and more.

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Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. 

Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

See more at TodayInMortgages.com

Want to get expert coaching everyday and have the power of the best Network in Mortgages behind your production business? Learn more here.

Learn more about Network Funding on our parent site. 

Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. Corporate office located at 10370 Richmond Ave. Suite 900, Houston, TX 77042. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Michael and Richard have more clarification on the VantageScore 4.0 roll out.

The FHFA shared an FAQ that helps explain some questions we had. What we have learned is yes, there will be options for using your best credit score, but there could be a competitive fee for that. And, as a lender we can chose which scoring system to apply to different loans. 

This is good for consumers, more options, and good for lenders because there's more ways to look at these scores. But we are wondering if there is a possibility that competition will make the companies loosen standards and open the door to unsavory loans. The answer we believe is no, it's not its making loans better, instead it's making credit scores more "real time" as this new model is using more recent data. 

Listen in as we discuss this and more.

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Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. 

Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

See more at TodayInMortgages.com

Want to get expert coaching everyday and have the power of the best Network in Mortgages behind your production business? Learn more here.

Learn more about Network Funding on our parent site. 

Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. Corporate office located at 10370 Richmond Ave. Suite 900, Houston, TX 77042. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Michael and Richard discuss the changes on how we view credit scores -- which might help with credit score evaluation for buyers.

Today's article is from the US Federal Housing website FHFA.gov says "FHFA announces release of historical VantageScore 4.0 credit scores by the enterprises." 

We've heard whispers of changes to credit scores over the last few years, but Bill Pulte announced immediate acceptance of this new method VantageScore 4.0 which uses machine learning. It's been hard for people who aren't big credit users to  build a credit score with the FICO model. What's different, is it is using trending data. It even takes into account rent payments, cell phone bills, and other real time payments people are making. 

There are a lot of buyers who have limited credit that are hurt by the FICO model who have the money, but just don't use a lot of credit to build a good credit score. We don't know all the pricing yet, but we know it will be less expensive! And as always competition brings prices down. 

Listen in as we discuss this and more! 

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Want to get expert coaching everyday and have the power of the best Network in Mortgages behind your production business? Learn more here.

Learn more about Network Funding on our parent site. 

Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. Corporate office located at 10370 Richmond Ave. Suite 900, Houston, TX 77042. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Michael and Richard talk about the current housing correction that's happening.

Today's article is from National Mortgage Professional: "Housing correction gathers momentum as supply surges, affordability pressures persist." The article cites a few corrections:
- Delinquency rates are stable but have ticked up a tad bit
- Student loan payments have resumed and are really hurting some people after 5 years on a pause
- Average debt-to-income ratio remains at a record high
- Inventory, pricing & demand all play off of each other. Compare Jun 2019 homes for sales verses June 2025, in Texas alone there are 33% more homes for sale than in June 2019.
- Demand, there's a lot of applications coming in but not a lot of inventory that meets their needs.

Ultimately, we think we are going in the right direction, with rates trending downward. Listen in as we discuss this and more! 

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Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. 

Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

See more at TodayInMortgages.com

Want to get expert coaching everyday and have the power of the best Network in Mortgages behind your production business? Learn more here.

Learn more about Network Funding on our parent site. 

Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. Corporate office located at 10370 Richmond Ave. Suite 900, Houston, TX 77042. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Michael and Richard discuss if the big bill is "beautiful" for housing. 

Today's article from NationalMortgageProfessional.com is titled "President Trump signs big beautiful bill -- Here's what it means for mortgages and housing." 
- The first thing that stuck out to us was the ability to deduct mortgage insurance fees from your taxes starting in 2026.
- Secondly, low income tax credits have been expanded, which ensures the building of affordable housing. 
- And finally the SALT deduction cap has gone from $10,000 to $40,000. If you're in a state with high state and local taxes that will help you. 

What we didn't see in the bill is some tax credits for first-time homebuyers. But just because the federal government isn't sponsoring programs, doesn't mean state governments aren't. 

Listen in as we discuss this and more! 

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Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. 

Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

See more at TodayInMortgages.com

Want to get expert coaching everyday and have the power of the best Network in Mortgages behind your production business? Learn more here.

Learn more about Network Funding on our parent site. 

Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. Corporate office located at 10370 Richmond Ave. Suite 900, Houston, TX 77042. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

Welcome back, Dreammakers, to Today in Mortgages! In this episode, hosts Michael and Richard discuss the rise in existing home sales in May, but new homes were a different story...

Today's article from the United States Census "Monthly New Residential Sales, May 2025" states new home sales fell 13.7% from April. Rich doesn't find this surprising; we are right at the end of a quarter so we expect June to be better. This compares with new home starts which are down about 10%. We predict prices will rise next quarter with the extra tariffs hitting lumbar. 

Overall, inventory is not the issue, there's more new and existing homes for sale. We just need more affordable interest rates for all those first-time homebuyers to be enticed to buy.  

Listen in as we discuss this and more! 

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Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. 

Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.

See more at TodayInMortgages.com

Want to get expert coaching everyday and have the power of the best Network in Mortgages behind your production business? Learn more here.

Learn more about Network Funding on our parent site. 

Today in mortgages is produced by Network Funding, LP, which is an equal housing lender, NMLS# 2297. Corporate office located at 10370 Richmond Ave. Suite 900, Houston, TX 77042. 

The content of this program is meant to be a commentary on mortgage and real estate news and any discussion of rates and or products should not be taken as individual mortgage or home buying advice or pricing estimates, and any commentary on this show is should not be considered a promise to make a loan. All applicants for a loan must qualify and you should consult a professional regarding your individual loan scenarios for your financial situation. Visit our website at nflp.com/licenses for all state licensing and other legal information.