At RESO’s Fall Conference, October 19–21, in Colorado Springs, Colorado:
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will explore how better listing data can strengthen appraisals, lending confidence, on-time closings and the mortgage market.
- Craig Cheatham of The Realty Alliance will cover why brokers are direct beneficiaries of stronger real estate data standards.
- Nick Bailey, Jeff Bosch and Nina Dosanjh will share what brokerage leaders need from technology and standards to move business forward.
- Clint Skutchan and York Baur will discuss why flexible listing input remains difficult to achieve, and what still stands between standards and real-world adoption.
The information an agent enters into a listing can influence an appraisal, a lending decision and whether a transaction closes on time. Its value extends into the mortgage investments that keep financing available for the next buyer. RESO’s ongoing work with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is focused on strengthening those connections.
“Fannie, Freddie and RESO: Fuller Listings, Faster Closings” will explore an industrywide question: Can agents drive better data that improves appraisal accuracy, lending confidence, on-time closings and secondary market liquidity?
Joining the discussion are directors in collateral, credit and disaster risk policy from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Their perspectives will connect the everyday work of creating listing data to its value across the housing finance system.
Why the Listing Matters to the Mortgage Market
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase hundreds of billions of dollars in mortgages each year and package loans into mortgage-backed securities sold to investors. That process replenishes lender funds so they can finance more homes.
Confidence in the properties backing those loans matters well beyond an individual transaction. Some of the data that supports that confidence starts with a real estate agent entering a listing. Discussions initiated through the National Association of REALTORS® brought RESO together with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and appraisal professionals to examine gaps in that information.
The opportunity is practical: help agents capture more useful property details, give appraisers better information for their valuations and support more confident lending decisions. The intended benefits extend from the closing table to the investors providing capital to the mortgage market.
The proposal under discussion includes more detailed information about accessory dwelling units, solar ownership and features designed to mitigate disaster damage. These are property characteristics the organizations want to make more consistently available for valuation and risk analysis.
For the agent doing the extra work, the motivation needs to be tangible. A more complete listing becomes more valuable when the agent understands how it could help resolve valuation questions and keep a client’s transaction moving toward closing.
Why You Should Be Part of the Conversation
For brokers and MLS leaders, the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac session offers a direct view into why their data matters to the organizations helping finance their clients’ transactions. For technology providers, it is an opportunity to understand needs that could shape future products.
Other conference speakers will bring that connection between standards and business outcomes back to the brokerage. Craig Cheatham, CEO of The Realty Alliance, will open the conference with the perspective of the brokers whose businesses and clients benefit from RESO’s work.
In the Broker Spotlight, Nick Bailey, President of Bailey Enterprises and former CEO of RE/MAX and Century 21, will join RESO Broker Advisory leaders Jeff Bosch of IRES MLS and Nina Dosanjh of Vanguard Properties. Their discussion will explore the future of brokerage and the changes needed to move its technology and business forward.
Clint Skutchan, Founder of twenty-two Intelligence and former EVP of Organized Real Estate at T3 Sixty, and York Baur, Chief Industry Relations Officer at Lone Wolf Technologies and Founder of Moxiworks, will examine why flexible listing input remains so difficult to deliver when standards can support it and products already exist. Their session gets at a practical requirement of the GSE collaboration: making it easier for agents to contribute the information others need.
Together, these discussions connect the work of defining data to the business decisions that put it to use. Join us at RESO Fall to hear how those contributions could support better appraisals, greater lending confidence and more on-time closings.
