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Mortgages & Housing Market Podcasts

237 shows and 18,815 episodes sit under Mortgages & Housing Market.

The best podcasts on mortgages and the housing market: interest rates, home-buying strategy, rental financing, market conditions, and commercial lending.

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What you'll hear on Mortgages & Housing Market podcasts

A housing headline is easy to repeat. A useful podcast has to make it actionable: what the numbers mean for a buyer, why a lender’s process matters, or whether a financing move still fits once the risks are counted.

The strongest listening here moves between two scales. Some shows stay close to the household decision; others explain the machinery behind mortgage lending and market access.

From charts to closings

Power House sounds like an industry conversation among people who work inside mortgage and housing. The pace is measured, the questions are practical, and technical language usually leads back to execution.

Listeners trying to connect market data with real transactions have their clearest entry in From charts to closings: What you should be watching in the market. The show also takes housing access seriously. Dave Savage: Why trust is the real barrier to homeownership frames that problem around something less tidy than rates or inventory, while Patty Arvielo on leadership, housing access, and industry change widens it to the industry itself.

This is the place to listen when “the housing market” feels too vague. Power House keeps returning to the people and processes that turn broad conditions into approvals, relationships, and closed deals.

The homeowner-facing version

Real Estate Today works at a brisker, more consumer-friendly pace. Questions are direct, explanations stay plain, and the conversation tends to end with something a buyer or seller can actually consider doing.

Its Spring 2026 Real Estate Market, published April 7, 2026, is the obvious snapshot for that season. There is less appetite here for extended industry theory. The appeal is translation: taking market conditions and bringing them down to the level of timing, preparation, and price.

Get Real With Eddie uses blunter hooks. Here's the Housing Market Split Nobody's Talking About points toward a divided market, while What Happens to REAL ESTATE During a Recession? asks the question many listeners reach for when economic anxiety rises. Skipping Inspection CAN Be a Costly Mistake! shifts from market mood to a concrete buyer risk. Those titles make the show a useful stop for listeners who prefer the question stated plainly before they press play.

Financing becomes a property decision

Real Estate Rookie approaches money from the perspective of someone trying to make an early investment work. The show’s coaching style is warm and operational, with financing terms quickly pulled into ordinary choices about property type, time, and risk.

How to Use Home Equity to Buy Your Next Rental Property (3 Ways) (Rookie Reply) goes straight at leverage. Should You Buy a Single-Family Rental or a Duplex? (Rookie Reply) puts financing beside the asset decision rather than treating the loan as a separate subject. For listeners deciding where geography fits, Local vs. Out-of-State Investing: Where to Buy Your First Rental (Rookie Reply) adds another practical fork in the road.

This is the most useful show here once market listening turns into, “What could I realistically buy?”

Around the rest of Real Estate

Move up to Real Estate for the broader mix of buying, selling, financing, and property-market conversations. The neighbouring pages become more specialized after the deal.

Property Management & Landlording is for the operating work: tenants, rent, and the responsibilities that begin after purchase. Real Estate Investing Strategies goes further into portfolio choices and methods for building returns. Stay on this page when the main question is how housing conditions and mortgage decisions shape the transaction itself.

Where to start

Choose From charts to closings: What you should be watching in the market for the industry view, then try Spring 2026 Real Estate Market for a homeowner-facing counterpart. New investors can begin with How to Use Home Equity to Buy Your Next Rental Property (3 Ways) (Rookie Reply). If the larger economy is driving your concern, queue What Happens to REAL ESTATE During a Recession?

Featured shows below are part of the PlayNext catalog. Updated weekly.

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The highest-scoring 60-second moments anywhere in mortgages & housing market, one per show.

364. Reading the Commercial Real Estate Room: Office Bifurcation, Retail Divergence, & SASB Reality Checks
The TreppWire Podcast: A Commercial Real Estate Show
Macro moves, market metrics, and tariff talk
CRE Exchange: Commercial Real Estate, Property Valuations, Real Estate Analytics and Property Tax · 2024-12-05
PwC Outlook from Tariffs and OBBB Plus Interest Rate Expectations with Tim Bodner
America‘s Commercial Real Estate Show
Election Aftermath: Trends and Predictions for Your City's CRE Market
Achieve Wealth Through Value Add Real Estate Investing Podcast
Windsor Essex County Real Estate Market Update March 1-20- 2026 What Buyers and Sellers Need to Know Now with Kris Ramotar
Kris Ramotar Podcast · 2026-03-22
$4 BILLION in Mortgages (Before Age 40) Here's EXACTLY How He Did It
Mortgage Marketing Radio · 2026-04-02
RRSP Mortgages Explained | Real Estate Investing Canada | Wayne Hillier
Real Estate Investing Morning Show ( REI Investment in Canada ) · 2026-03-24
Property Market Update (Christmas Edition)
Behind The Facade - Real Estate Investing · 2025-12-22
Real Brief - LI & NY's Real Estate Show! The dangerous mortgage game! How much is your mortgage officer making on you? How does it work?
Real Brief - LI & NY's Real Estate Show! · 2026-04-17
Ep. 263 'WAR! How Does It Effect Mortgage Rates?
Ready, Set, REAL ESTATE! ® · 2026-03-04

Drawn from 480 playable clips across 48 shows.

New on PlayNext

Just added to Mortgages & Housing Market

The newest mortgages & housing market clips in the library, one per show — ordered by when the clip was made, not when the episode came out.

Bridging Loans, Personal Guarantees & The Real Risks of Commercial Lending
Listen Without Prejudice | A Podcast from Bishop & Sewell · added 2026-09-05
364. Reading the Commercial Real Estate Room: Office Bifurcation, Retail Divergence, & SASB Reality Checks
The TreppWire Podcast: A Commercial Real Estate Show · added 2026-08-31
Real Brief - LI & NY's Real Estate Show! The dangerous mortgage game! How much is your mortgage officer making on you? How does it work?
Real Brief - LI & NY's Real Estate Show! · added 2026-08-26
Office Market Update with Yardi Matrix
America‘s Commercial Real Estate Show · added 2026-08-19
Macro moves, market metrics, and tariff talk
CRE Exchange: Commercial Real Estate, Property Valuations, Real Estate Analytics and Property Tax · added 2026-08-19
Spring has Sprung - Monthly Market Update
Greater Victoria Real Estate Show · added 2026-08-13
People-first leadership in mortgage
Power House · added 2026-08-01
Windsor Ontario Real Estate Market Update February 2026 Homes and Condos Explained by Your Lakeshore Windsor Essex Realtor
Kris Ramotar Podcast · added 2026-08-01
$4 BILLION in Mortgages (Before Age 40) Here's EXACTLY How He Did It
Mortgage Marketing Radio · added 2026-07-05
Ep. 263 'WAR! How Does It Effect Mortgage Rates?
Ready, Set, REAL ESTATE! ® · added 2026-06-22

10 clips, one per show, added between 2026-06-22 and 2026-09-05.

Featured shows

5 shows, described rather than listed

A short write-up for each, plus the job it does in this guide.

Where to start

4 routes in, one per reader

01First-time home buyer trying to understand the market and mortgage processStarts with Real Estate Today

Navigating the Housing Market as a First-Time Home Buyer and A Look At Mortgages in 2024 are the clearest consumer starting point.

02New rental investor evaluating financing optionsStarts with Real Estate Rookie

Rental Financing 101: Mortgage & Refi Tips for New Investors (Rookie Reply) and Pay Off Properties or Buy More with Mortgages? (Rookie Reply) address the core financing decisions.

03Investor reading current housing market conditionsStarts with Get Real With Eddie

Here's the Housing Market Split Nobody's Talking About and Just How STUCK is the Housing Market?! New Report Reveals give the current-cycle framing.

04Commercial real estate buyer or investor evaluating debt termsStarts with America‘s Commercial Real Estate Show

Commercial Mortgage and Lending Update and Office Market Update with Yardi Matrix show how commercial debt and property performance interact.

Glossary

A quick Mortgages & Housing Market glossary

Debt-service coverage ratio (DSCR)

Net operating income divided by annual debt payments. Lenders use it to measure whether a property earns enough to cover its mortgage. A DSCR below 1.0 means the property cannot service its debt from income alone.

Loan-to-value ratio (LTV)

The loan amount divided by the appraised property value, expressed as a percentage. Lenders use LTV to assess risk; higher LTV means less equity cushion and typically higher rates or PMI requirements.

Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)

A mortgage with an interest rate that resets periodically after an initial fixed period. Rates can rise or fall with a benchmark index, making monthly payments unpredictable over time.

Inventory

The number of homes or properties actively listed for sale in a market at a given time. Low inventory means fewer choices for buyers and upward pressure on prices; high inventory favors buyers.

Trapped equity

Home equity that owners cannot access or deploy because selling would require giving up a low fixed-rate mortgage and buying at current higher rates. Reduces supply even when prices rise.

Cap rate

Net operating income divided by purchase price. A quick way to compare income yield across commercial properties before financing. Lower cap rates mean higher prices relative to income.