Authors List

Authors

  • Christopher Hoeffel is president of CoreVest Finance, the leading lender to residential real estate investors nationwide. Hoeffel has more than 30 years of experience at top financial institutions and remains active in the finance industry. He is a former president of the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association (now the CRE Finance Council) and remains on its board of governors, and also has held leadership roles at the Mortgage Bankers Association. Prior to CoreVest, Hoeffel was managing director at Investcorp, where he was head of real estate debt investments.

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  • Paul Hoffman

    Paul Hoffman is senior vice president of commercial banking and senior director of C-PACE for Western Alliance Bank. Based in Los Angeles, Hoffman works with commercial-property owners and developers in more than 30 states that have adopted C-PACE initiatives. He brings more than 25 years of experience in construction financing in both residential and commercial real estate to the ever-expanding C-PACE funding market. 

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  • Steve Hoke

    Steve Hoke is vice president and general manager for mortgage and commercial lending solutions at Finastra. With more than 20 years in the financial-services industry, Hoke brings to his role a wealth of experience in fintech, insurance, lending and investment banking. His background allows him to lead a strategic product team focused on improving the lending experience for homebuyers and businesses across the country.

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  • Suzanne Hollander is an attorney and professor teaching real estate law, property rights and commercial leasing at Florida International University, and previously taught at New York University. She is the broker of Hollander Realty LLC, representing Florida buyers and sellers. Hollander offers real estate education, speaking and consulting services to lenders, owners, buyers and government entities through her company, Professor Real Estate LLC. She authors the blog at professorrealestate.com. Reach Hollander at suzanne@professorrealestate.com or (786) 202-0587

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  • Brian Honea

    Brian Honea is a freelance writer based in the Dallas area. He has won many awards for his work in newspapers and has published five nonfiction books. Honea has been a writer and editor across many forms of media for 25 years, including for various mortgage industry publications and for Alchemi Advisory Group. To learn more about Alchemi, visit thealchemigroup.com or email info@thealchemigroup.com.

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  • Andra Hopulele

    Andra Hopulele is a senior real estate writer with Point2, which covers real estate market trends and news, and develops original studies on many real estate topics. Hopulele covers the impact of housing issues on everyday life. She writes about the financial implications of new generations entering the housing market and about the challenges of homeownership.

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  • Houtan Hormozian is the co-founder of Crestico, a boutique real estate and mortgage brokerage in Los Angeles, revolutionizing real estate and mortgage lending with a focus on client needs and compliance. Hormozian is an entrepreneur at heart and a seasoned professional with nearly 20 years in the real estate and mortgage industry, and past President of the California Association of Mortgage Professionals. His expertise spans from sales to strategic market expansion and navigating regulatory landscapes. A thought leader, Hormozian contributes to major industry publications and is a Freddie Mac SmartCredit coach, influencing financial services and community initiatives alike.

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  • Jonathan Hornik

    Jonathan Hornik is a founding partner at LaRocca Hornik Rosen & Greenberg in New York City, and is chair of the law firm’s private lender group. A specialist in private lending, Hornik actively represents more than 100 lenders across the country. His firm provides nationwide, 24-hour closing services; title review and negotiation; master loan purchase agreements; private placements; and regulatory and compliance review. Hornik advises on real estate foreclosures and nonperforming loan workouts. For more information, visit privatelenderlaw.com. Reach Hornik at jhornik@privatelenderlaw.com or (212) 536-3529.

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  • Brent Houston

    Brent Houston is chief executive officer with ALTRA Mortgage Capital LLC, an Orange County-based lender built to serve third-party originators and provide access to non-agency and hard money mortgage products with its online non-QM pricing and eligibility engine plus turn-time guarantees for certainty of close. Houston has 15 years of experience in the underwriting, system integration, marketing and origination of private money real estate loans throughout the United States. 

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  • Raf Howery

    Raf Howery is the founder and CEO of Kukun, a data and analytics platform for home remodeling and property conditions that serves the mortgage, real estate, insurance and retail industries. Kukun was founded in 2014 in Menlo Park, California. Howery has built more than 10 complex analytics and orchestration platforms for Kukun, and for his previous clients in data- and analytics-intensive industries. Visit Kukun at mykukun.com.

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  • Troy Huerta

    Troy Huerta is president of SRE Mortgage Solutions in El Segundo, California. With more than 25 years of extensive entrepreneurial experience, he has always adjusted his business for the benefit of his clients. Prior to joining SRE, Huerta started his own mortgage company in 2000, where he recruited, managed and trained a successful team of mortgage originators and real estate professionals. Huerta is a licensed mortgage originator and holds a California real estate broker’s license.

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  • Roger Hull

    Roger Hull is the chief product officer of Origence, which developed the Origence origination platform, an end-to-end solution that powers mortgage, consumer and home equity lending for financial institutions.

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