The reverse mortgage industry has expressed overwhelmingly positive feelings about business prospects for 2021, and is taking notice of an influx of new interest in the reverse mortgage product category as caused by the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. This is according to a recent 2021 Industry Outlook survey conducted by RMD by polling out industry […]
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements in January recorded a very strong increase at the beginning of the year, rising 10.8% to 4,539 loans. This makes January 2021 volume the highest that the industry has seen since May 2020, which marked an explosive increase in volume to over 5,000 loans. January also marks a continued […]
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell by 9.4% in the month of November 2020, for a total of 3,390 loans according to the latest HECM Originators report from Reverse Market Insight (RMI). The fall comes in the midst of generally heightened reverse mortgage industry activity that has been taking place over the past few […]
Homeowners aged 62 and older saw their collective housing wealth increase in Q3 2020 by 1.6% compared to the previous quarter. This constitutes an increase of approximately $121 billion to a record of $7.82 trillion, according to data provided by the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) in conjunction with data analytics firm RiskSpan. The […]
Americans in the demographic cohort known as “Generation X,” signifying those born between approximately 1961 and 1980, are displaying larger signs of anxiety related to their finances than the baby boomer generation. This is according to the 2020 Workplace Benefits Report by Bank of America, and cited by retirement media website NextAvenue. “[The survey] found […]
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements in December recorded an increase at the end of the year, rising 15.1% to 4,097 loans. This marks a reversal of recent courses, as HECM volume previously had been on a recent downward trend, but overall the year finished on a strong note by rising 27.3% to 44,661 loans […]
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell by 4.6% in the month of October 2020, for a total of 3,741 loans according to the latest HECM Originators report from Reverse Market Insight (RMI). The fall comes in the midst of generally heightened reverse mortgage industry activity that has been taking place over the past few […]
The Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program does not subsidize the traditional, forward mortgage program at the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), because the HECM program has shown significant economic improvement over the past few years; and the forward mortgage program’s volatility has demonstrably increased. This is according to reverse mortgage capital markets and investment banking […]
In the final monthly data drop of the year, Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements in November recorded another slight drop, sliding back 4.7% to 3,561 loans. This marks the third time since May that HECM volume fell below 4,000 loans, but still remains above numbers observed between February and April of this year according […]
Every business which serves a market of customers has to determine what counts as a benchmark for success, and oftentimes one of the key benchmarks is market penetration. Since businesses often have to define what market penetration is — and what it means — for their particular business segment, that determination can help the people […]
