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Lenders Shift from Kitchen Table, Adapt to New Reverse Mortgage Landscape
Reverse Mortgage Daily
Today, the Saver helps borrowers looking to meet financial planning needs and the HECM Purchase allows borrowers to purchase a new home with a reverse mortgage. Fixed rate reverse mortgages have comprised 2/3 or more of total volume for more than two ...

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Cantor Fitzgerald Presents Reverse Mortgage “Mythbuster”
Reverse Mortgage Daily
A new research report from reverse mortgage securities trading player Cantor Fitzgerald aims to provide a “mythbuster” regarding the secondary market for reverse loans. Looking at prepayment data from every fixed rate HMBS pool issued since 2008, ...

Reverse Mortgage Showdown
Canadian Mortgage Trends
From an investment standpoint, few mortgage lenders present a better risk/reward than HomEquity Bank, a subsidiary of HOMEQ. Its product, the CHIP reverse mortgage, has enormous upside in terms of growth, with extraordinarily low loss rates.

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House Financial Services Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
Whatever the underlying reason, borrowers who take the full draw on day one of the reverse mortgage loan exhaust their borrowing capacity immediately and accrue interest on a large balance. Younger borrowers who take out reverse mortgages have access ...

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MBA Projects 2012 To See Lowest Mortgage Lending Level In Five Years
Reverse Mortgage Daily
Projections show a low year for reverse mortgage endorsements. The forward lending world, too, sees 2012 as having the lowest volume in five years, by dollar amounts. Originations will fall to less than $1.1 trillion in 2012, according to a report by ...

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Counseling Provider Questions Mass. Reverse Mortgage Requirements
Reverse Mortgage Daily
The article, penned by Tony Lopes, housing director for Cambridge Credit Counseling Corp., indicates that while the industry has seen a decrease in volume and higher fallout rates, a bigger issue may arise for Massachusetts reverse mortgage lenders due ...

THE DISTILLERY: Rates wait
Business Spectator
As we're all well aware by now, interest rate politics is about the mortgage belts. So what should we expect for real estate prices? The Sydney Morning Herald's Elizabeth Knight noticed that just as the RBA was cutting rates, two of Australia's largest ...

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Reverse mortgages: Don't let the Fonz sell you
CBS News
For some of these near or current retirees, the allure of a reverse mortgage is calling. A reverse mortgage is a home loan that allows homeowners 62 and older to convert a portion of the equity in their homes into cash, as long as the home remains ...

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Friday Round Up: MetLife Quits Reverse Mortgages
Reverse Mortgage Daily
MetLife exited the reverse mortgage business. In an announcement Thursday, MetLife stated its decision to leave the reverse mortgage origination business and sell its servicing portfolio to Nationstar mortgage. Read our coverage of the exit.

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MetLife posts 1Q loss, exiting reverse mortgages
BusinessWeek
MetLife Inc. said Thursday it is getting out of the reverse mortgage business as part of its exit from retail banking, which it says accounted for only a small fraction of its profits. Nationstar Mortgage LLC has agreed to buy MetLife Bank's reverse ...

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December 4, 2008 · Filed under Uncategorized

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