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WFG's MyHome Funder Dashboard receives PROGRESS in Lending's annual honor One reliable means of knowing how far the cutting edge of mortgage industry technology has extended each year is the annual Innovations Awards from PROGRESS in Lending. On March 8, 2022, the 12th Annual Innovations Awards were posted online, with…

WFG Founder and Executive Chairman has seen it all in his 40+ years in the real estate industry. But even the veteran industry expert admits he's never seen anything like we're experiencing in 2022. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, inflation, and Fed rate hikes are creating a conundrum for economists with…

WFG Founder and Executive Chairman Patrick Stone cites five areas of concern. In The Title Report, WFG National Title Insurance Company Founder and Executive Chairman Patrick F. Stone offers informed perspective on five areas that will impact the title industry in 2022 and beyond. Cyber security – "I want to…

WFG Founder and Executive Chairman Patrick Stone joins industry experts in The M Report's March 2022 cover story on prospects for closing the housing inventory gap As current and prospective homeowners face a forbidding housing market, the supply chain bottleneck and labor issues continue to exacerbate a building industry already…

WFG Founder and Executive Chairman Patrick Stone and Economist Bill Conerly open hour-long Q1 webinar with individual predictions on the economy, the title industry and real estate Now expanded to an hour, WFG's Q1 "Quarterly Economic Outlook” webinar on February 23rd gave Patrick F. Stone, Founder and Executive Chairman of…

Patrick Stone discusses expanding the WFG Webinar Series he co-hosts with Bill Conerly When the pandemic forced him off the road in 2020, and his 12 to 15 personal appearances to answer questions and provide insight directly to live industry audiences had to move online, WFG Founder and Executive Chairman…

With inflation pegging the meter at rates not seen since the 1980s, the Fed will be forced to raise rates. The questions are how much, how quickly, and what the impact will be on longer-term mortgage interest rates and the red-hot housing market. In this episode, WFG Founder & Executive…

Sean Pyle, the President of Valutrust Solutions, WFG's appraisal management company and property valuation service provider, is WFG Insights' latest interview.  Valutrust Solutions, he says, continues to "bring a marriage of technology and service-mindedness to evaluation services," while expanding its role into an evaluation services partner. "A lot of our…

The increasingly popular and influential online forum of opinions and insights will now feature analysis from each industry leader prior to the Q&A session. Portland, Ore., January 26, 2022 – The"WFG Quarterly Economic Outlook," a popular and increasingly influential webinar featuring Williston Financial Group Founder and Executive Chairman Patrick F. Stone…

To kick off the new year with informed perspective, WFG Insights, Williston Financial Group's episodic podcast for title, mortgage and real estate professionals, turned to WFG Founder and Executive Chairman Patrick Stone. Host Brian Bushlach was anxious to get Stone's assessment of where we might be headed with interest rates,…