Rhiannon Behnke is no stranger to the mortgage business. From family roots in California’s largest private mortgage banker to having almost every job role imaginable in the reverse business, Behnke has made a home at San Diego’s Security One Lending as Director of Reverse Mortgage Sales. When she’s not out eating Mexican food with her [...]

Top-10 reverse mortgage lender Security One Lending has announced it will join forces, effective immediately, with a fledgling broker roll-up that launched earlier this year under the leadership of former Financial Freedom president Bart Johnson and Tony Garcia, CEO of Liberty Street Financial. The broker roll-up, which previously operated the name National Senior Home Equity, [...]

Get ready to share the airwaves, Fred Thompson and Robert Wagner—there’s a new reverse mortgage spokesman in town, and he’s about to appear on TV screens nationwide. Security One Lending (S1L) says the company has wrapped production with recently chosen spokesman Pat Boone for its national TV spots, which will air starting in August. Boone was chosen, [...]

While it was once believed the lenders who specialize in reverse mortgages find the most success, some mid-sized lenders are proving that operating on both the reverse and forward sides is a viable—and even preferable—model. Costly regulation and ongoing changes taking place in the reverse mortgage industry have prompted at least one top-20 lender to [...]

Security One Lending has teamed with Columbia Credit Union to offer reverse mortgages to Columbia’s members. Top-10 lender reverse mortgage lender Security One says the agreement with Vancouver, Wash.-based Columbia Credit Union provides an opportunity to expand S1L’s reach in working with the credit union’s members. ““Our program provides a non-competitive solution for forward thinking [...]

Reverse Fortunes, a customer relationship manager (CRM), released new features to help streamline the lead-to-client process last week. Designed specifically for reverse mortgage originators, customers now have the ability submit loans to MetLife’s wholesale division seamlessly from within the system using “easy buttons.” “Using our CRM originators can eliminate double data entry and simplify the [...]