HW Magazine

September 2012

In this year’s Influential Women special section, we talk with 30 women leaders helping to shape the housing sector. Here, we feature Carol Galante with the Federal Housing Administration.

Features

Faith Schwartz: Leading the way
by Jon Prior

Meet Faith Schwartz, director of the Hope Now alliance and one of 30 HousingWire Women of Influence for 2012.

Laurie Maggiano: Thriving amid the challenges
by Jon Prior

The “architect” of the Home Affordable Modification Program, the most ambitious and one of the most maligned government initiatives to combat the foreclosure crisis, is certainly influential. Read more about Laurie Maggiano.

Commentary

by Christopher Whalen

Is it time for new institutional money to enter the housing market? Nonbank ventures, especially, are poised to take mortgage market share from the nation’s big banks.

by Michael Gutierrez

The residential mortgage industry needs to recognize the difference between performing loan servicers and default management specialists  — much like the commercial mortgage industry did more than a decade ago.