Over the past 3 weeks we have seen the exit of at least 2 large wholesale players in the Reverse Mortgage market.  Both have quietly packed up shop…  No press releases and no major announcements about their closings or layoffs.  The first new wholesale operation that we were aware of being scuttled was Deutsche Bank […]

Virtual Bank has taken a different approach than other reverse mortgage lenders by only offering a range of proprietary products to their brokers.  The suite of products includes the Life Plan and Prime Life products, which are the first proprietary products developed to compete directly with the HECM and Fannie Mae Home Keeper.  Along with these two products, Virtual Bank also offers a jumbo […]

Yesterday,  I posted about Virtual Bank’s LIFE Plan product which is the first proprietary product developed to compete directly with the HECM product.  Virtual Bank has another product that aims at the HECM market called Prime LIFE.  The Prime LIFE product is the first reverse mortgage based off prime and has lower fees when compared to the LIFE Plan and […]