HousingWire Announces Launch of New Website, New Tools

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwired - Aug 2, 2013) - HousingWire announced today the re-launch of HousingWire.com, the U.S. mortgage finance industry's most-visited and most-read source of news and information. The website, available immediately, offers more than 50 new features and tools designed to improve reader experience.

"The new HousingWire.com is a completely new platform from the ground up, with hundreds of new features and tools that truly aren't available anywhere else in the mortgage trade press," said Paul Jackson, Publisher and CEO at HousingWire.

Among the new features: streaming equity information on any publicly traded stock, a first for the mortgage trade press. Along with streaming equity quotes, the also site provides a new tool for live insight into the U.S. housing economy: the HW 30 equity index. Developed to be the first broad-based equity index to capture residential mortgage lending, servicing, investments and real estate, the HW 30 index is available on HousingWire.com via streaming data and can be benchmarked in near real-time against other indices and stocks.

"The HW 30 index is the only stock index that has been created specifically to capture the broader residential housing finance marketplace, including non-bank lenders, servicers, mortgage REITs and more," said Jackson.

Additional new features also include an industry-first contextual buyer's guide that allows company directory listings to be integrated directly with HousingWire.com's industry-leading news reports via keyword tagging. What's more, directory listings can include white papers for download, product videos, screenshot slideshows, and much more.

"Buyer's guides are an important service any trade media platform should provide their readers, but most are passive and offer limited value," said Richard Bitner, President and Associate Publisher at HousingWire. "Our new directories on HousingWire.com allow for active integration with our news, and give listing owners the ability to do far more than just put static information on a page."

More information on features of the new HousingWire.com, and the companies selected for inclusion in the HW 30 equity index, is available at: http://www.housingwire.com/launch

About HousingWire
HousingWire is the nation's most influential news source covering the U.S. housing economy, spanning mortgage lending, servicing, investments and real estate operations. The company's news, commentary, magazine content, industry directories, and events give professionals the insight they need to make better, more informed business decisions. Learn more at http://www.HousingWire.com.