The Deal Exchange

6:00 p.m.

The debut event for HIX, and the first best place to connect with servicers, attorneys, agents, asset managers, auction platforms, and tech partners.

This day-long event at HIX features candid market intel, real-world asset pitches, and a continuous flow of conversations with decision makers and deal brokers.

Full DealX agenda below.

The first of two days of the REO Lab, featuring critical insights and connections between servicers, asset managers, vendors, and REO agents. Among the sessions included on Monday's REO Lab lineup:

• The State of Distressed Assets
• Forecasting the Future of Servicing and Asset Resolution
• Agent Growth Series
• Auction is Not a Dirty Word
• The Servicer Perspective: Risk and the Road Ahead
• DIL, Short Sales, and the Borrower Who's Done Negotiating
• Silent Deal Killers: Title, Probate, & Lien Priority

Leaders from across GSEs, servicing, capital markets, tech, and disposition converge for the fall's most influential legal event. Among the sessions and topics being discussed during this day-long event at HIX:

• The State of Servicing from the Legal Lens
• Data Theft, Bot Interception, and the Susceptibilities of Scale
• When Size Matters, When Fit Wins
• The Fixed-Free Trap and the True Cost of Complex Default Litigation
• Navigating the Velocity Mandate of IMBs & Private Equity
• Operational Realities of Deeds-in-Lieu and Borrower Outreach
• Maintaining Institutional Knowledge in the AI Age

An opening brief on the forces defining what may trade next: capital movement, asset supply, pricing pressure, policy shifts and the changing housing investment landscape.

Pre-vetted asset holders, operators and opportunity sponsors deliver rapid presentations of portfolios, pipelines, recurring inventory, operating platforms and investment concepts. Each presenter answers four key questions: What is the opportunity, why now, what is being sought, and what should happen next?

Pre-vetted asset holders, operators and opportunity sponsors deliver rapid presentations of portfolios, pipelines, recurring inventory, operating platforms and investment concepts. Each presenter answers four key questions: What is the opportunity, why now, what is being sought, and what should happen next?

Where defaults, delinquencies, insurance pressure, tax exposure and property-level stress are quietly building—and where opportunity may surface before it becomes obvious.

Making connections between interested capital, asset holders with qualified buyers, operators with strategic partners and developers with financing sources. Discussions take place on the Exchange Floor and in private hospitality suites.

The indicators sophisticated investors watch beyond published data: local market psychology, servicer behavior, insurance availability, political movement, neighborhood momentum, builder sentiment and signals visible only to experienced operators.

A live brainstorm exploring public-private approaches to rehabilitation, disposition, preservation, affordable ownership, rental pathways and scalable local pilots. Participants identify the strongest concepts worth advancing after HIX.

How leading investors are using AI to source, screen, value, underwrite and prioritize acquisitions faster—and where human judgment remains decisive.

Making connections between interested capital, asset holders with qualified buyers, operators with strategic partners and developers with financing sources. Discussions take place on the Exchange Floor and in private hospitality suites.

A second round of rapid presentations featuring recurring inventory, emerging pipelines, capital needs, redevelopment concepts and opportunities still being shaped.

Where money is moving, how capital is being structured, what return requirements are changing and how buyers and sellers can bridge the pricing gap.

A concise recap of the opportunities drawing interest, HUD concepts selected for continued development, introductions being advanced and the next steps that begin after the DEALX floor closes.

Featuring a distinguished panel of executives and policymakers, candidly and collaboratively addressing the stakes and state of our industry, shifting policy expectations post-midterms, and what it takes to preserve the enduring pursuit of the American Dream.

Hosted at Acre Distilling Co., this ticketed event offers an exclusive opportunity for Lab Lab attendees—including LegalX member firms, servicers, capital market firms, and more—to connect over elevated craft cocktails behind closed doors.

Go below the surface, and beyond the noise with this exclusive, limited-seating event, and you’re invited to secure your place and participation. Hosted off-site at a fully reserved private venue in Downtown Fort Worth, this is the party the industry will be buzzing about.

A continuation of critical insights and connections between servicers, asset managers, vendors, and REO agents. Among the sessions included on Tuesday's REO Lab lineup:

• The Resolution Specialist Playbook
• GSE Expectations & Policy Shifts
• Default Policy & Institutional Capital
  
• Hold-to-Rent vs Retail Disposition
• Pressures, Performance, & Predictions
• The HECM Playbook & Reverse Mortgage Pipeline

Unscripted. Unfiltered. Unprecedented. Renowned executives and innovators take on the toughest issues, in candid, often confrontational, and always entertaining debates. Featured sessions include:

• Risk, Reality, and the Fracture Lines of Modern Mortgage Servicing
• What We Lose in Human Error in the Age of Agentic Workflows
• The Data Wars & Battle for Servicing Intelligence
• The Valuation Lies We Tell Ourselves
• The Great Servicing Debate: MSPs of the Future
• Delay, Defer, Decay: The Maintenance Epidemic
• The Uninsurable States of America

Close out conversations, lock in relationships, and raise a glass to the year’s last big hurrah.