Bank of America announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire the reverse mortgage business of Seattle Mortgage Company, who is an indirect subsidiary of Seattle Financial Group, Inc.  SMC is the third largest producer of federally backed reverse mortgages and gives BOA a huge section of the reverse mortgage market.
BOA has been piloting their own […]

Seattle Mortgage just recently made a change to their Independence Plan (SM) which is one of the new jumbo reverse mortgage  products on the market.  The standard Independence plan has a margin of 3.60% but now if the borrower is willing to keep their LTV a bit lower they are willing to cut the margin  to 2.10%.  “The […]

Seattle Mortgage has announced that their reverse mortgage borrowers will have the option to use QuickChecks (SM) to pay for everyday expenses.  Quick Checks (SM) allows reveres mortgage borrowers to write a check instead of having to fax in a request for funds to the servicer.  I think this is a great feature that you […]