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Reverse Mortgage Rates – August 19, 2008

Good news: This week, all Treasury-based HECM’s with a margin of +165 or less will pay the HECM maximum benefits. Ditto for LIBOR-based HECM’s with margins of +92 or less. Using these margins, the initial note rate on a LIBOR HECM will be 44 bp less than that on a Treasury HECM.

The rates of today are:

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