Exclusive Networking Exchange
The Housing Exchange's inaugural Spring Summit unites leaders from across housing finance—attorneys, investors, servicers, and brokers—for a high-impact, exclusive day of candid dialogue, expert insights, and truly meaningful connections.
Designed exclusively for members and invited capital market and servicing partners.
Content currently under development. Sessions and times subject to change.
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Joint Networking
Collaborative Coffee Connect
An all-attendee opening networking break over coffee and light breakfast pastries, as an interconnected preamble to the day’s heady dialogue.
9:00 –9:20 a.m.
Joint Session
Welcome & State of the Cycle
Policy volatility, rate-suppressed demand, AI disruption, and surging distressed inventory are converging at once. This opening keynote frames the macro forces bearing down on every sector in the room and sets the strategic lens for the day.
9:20 – 10:05 a.m.
LegalX Session
The Governance Mandate: GSE & Regulatory Briefing
Featuring: Freddie Mac
Compliance benchmarks for 2026 are being drawn now, not later. In partnership with Freddie Mac, this session delivers a direct briefing on regulatory posture, conservatorship dynamics, and the non-negotiable performance standards ahead.
10:05 – 10:45 a.m.
LegalX Session
Investor Confidence is Eroding: What Happens Next?
Investor confidence in NPL/RPL paper is eroding, and legal delays are a primary driver. This session puts the hard question on the table: if the legal community can't compress timelines and clear title risk, what does that do to the asset class when volume surges?
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.
Networking Break
11:00 – 11:30 a.m.
LegalX Session
In the Crosshairs: Compliance, Automation, & the Tightening Vise
Automated systems are generating live litigation targets, and documentation failures are arming borrower counsel at scale. Legal and compliance leaders examine dual-tracking exposure and what defensible oversight actually looks like in 2026.
11:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Joint Session
When the Pipeline Breaks: An Open Disposition Dialogue
The gap between legal timelines and disposition deadlines isn't an inconvenience—it's a systemic liability. Both tracks converge for open-floor dialogue on where the pipeline is fracturing and what it's actually costing.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Joint Networking Lunch
Strategic Networking Lunch
The Risk of Marketing Without Marketable Title
Over lunch, attorneys, asset managers, and brokers unpack the exposure, with expert-guided discussion spanning title reform, pre-foreclosure strategy, and the technology closing the gap.
1:05 – 1:50 p.m.
LegalX Session
On the Litigation Frontier: Title, Probate, Heirship & Broken Chains
Title defects, contested estates, unresolved heirship claims, and chain-of-title vulnerabilities from servicing transfers are converging into a single, compounding crisis. Experts examine what's needed to clear the backlog before rising inventory makes it unmanageable.
1:55 – 2:35 p.m.
LegalX Session
Where Legal Meets Capital: Navigating the Stack, Protecting Returns
Title defects, regulatory delays, and documentation failures don't just slow foreclosure, they erode capital. Leaders candidly confront how complex capital stacks are being stress-tested today, and what a more formalized legal-capital collaboration could mean for the industry's next cycle.
2:35 – 2:50 p.m.
Networking Break
2:50 – 3:25 p.m.
LegalX Session
Defending the Servicing Standard: Loss Mitigation & Enforcement Risk
Regulatory pressure on loss mitigation sequencing has tightened—and missteps are generating escalating litigation exposure. Legal and compliance leaders examine dual-tracking vulnerabilities, borrower challenge strategies, and what's working in the current enforcement environment.
3:30 – 4:10 p.m.
LegalX Session
Where Legal Meets Capital: Navigating the Stack, Protecting Returns
Title defects and regulatory delays don't just slow foreclosure; they erode capital. Legal and capital markets leaders examine how complex capital stacks are being stress-tested today, and open the conversation on what more formalized and consistent legal and capital collaborations could mean for the industry's next cycle.
4:15 – 4:50 p.m.
Joint Session
The Resolution Task Force: A Unified Strategic Exchange
Where the day's dialogue becomes deliverables. Attorneys, asset managers, servicers, and institutional partners converge to draft actionable industry responses to the policy gaps, technology risks, and market roforces reshaping default resolution.
4:50 – 5:30 p.m.
Joint Session
The Path Forward: The Next 24 Months in Housing Finance
A final synthesis of interest rate scenarios, AI developments, policy shifts expected pre- and post-election season, and taking on your burning questions.
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Joint Networking Event
Closing Cocktail Networking Reception
Close out the high-impact day of dialogue as you unwind over elevated barcraft and hors d'oeuvres alongside peers, colleagues, clients, and experts, while making final, critical business connections.
