Dale Robyn Siegel is a licensed attorney in New York and President of Circle Mortgage Group, a boutique mortgage broker since 1998 assisting hundreds of people each year obtain the right mortgage. She is the author of The New Rules for Mortgages (Penguin/Alpha: September 2009) and an adjunct professor at both NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate and Baruch College.  She most recently was awarded the Best New Author Award by NAREE. Dale is an long time advocate for consumer education on real estate and a sought after public speaker on the topic, doing hundreds of seminars on home buying and real estate finance nationwide.

She is currently working on her second book, The Mortgage Professional, a textbook for the required 20-Hour Mortgage Loan Originator S.A.F.E. Comprehensive Certification Course for mortgage professionals.  This textbook will be used nationally and will be updated as the rules continue to change.  Working hard to educate the young adult on personal finance and home ownership, Dale went on the road with the teams of the WNBA a few years ago, lecturing about real estate transactions and finance.  She is often interviewed and quoted by 20 and 30- something bloggers and journalists about first time home buying. Dale has always held a contrarian view on home ownership (it is not for everybody) and real estate finance (don’t borrow more than you know you should) and is considered a trusted expert in her field.

A contrarian thinker in the mortgage industry, she predicted both the real estate bubble and the collapse of the mortgage industry. Dale holds an undergraduate degree in finance, an MBA and JD. (No, she is not boring at parties!) She lives in the New York Metropolitan area and is an avid bicycler and world traveller.  After a year of writing and editing The New Rules for Mortgages, she has committed to another consumer real estate book due out next year. With the use of technology, there are several great adventures on the horizon- have NetBook will travel.