As more alternative home equity tapping tools like sale leasebacks and shared equity products begin to enter conversations about retirement, more traditional reverse mortgage products are finding themselves in a more competitive environment. Originators don’t tend to see these products as threatening, but more traditional reverse mortgages may have another key advantage: borrower safety. The […]
Private alternatives to the government-insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) are becoming more popular — particularly for people with high-value properties — and have been seen by some in the reverse mortgage industry as a possible factor that could save the business from generally reduced volume, and the still-felt impact of October 2017’s changes to […]
The emergence of new, proprietary offerings in the reverse mortgage market has been seen by originators and business observers as a general boon to the larger industry. Certain firms recently shared with RMD that, in the case of proprietary “jumbo” loans that are outside the purview of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) oversight, they’ve seen a […]
For baby boomers with highly valued properties, the new swath of proprietary reverse mortgage offerings may be something to take a closer look at. This is according to a new spotlight for those proprietary loans found on NextAvenue, a website aimed at the baby boomer generation owned and operated by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). […]
Live Well Financial is expanding its business with the evolution of an in-house technology platform that caters to a forward-reverse approach, and targets its distributed retail channel. While the company has been originating forward and reverse mortgages for some time, it is now ramping up its efforts toward distributed retail sales with originators who will […]
Demand for reverse mortgages in Canada continues to grow, presenting a stark contrast to the declining volume exhibited in the American reverse mortgage market. On top of specific product differences in the Canadian product, there’s also a different business climate over the northern border that accounts for some of the differences between the two nations’ […]
Finance of America Reverse (FAR) has eliminated a feature of its HomeSafe Select proprietary reverse mortgage, RMD has learned, in addition to several product changes rolled out in December. The changes were made in response to feedback from borrowers, investors and partners, and are seen by the company as “net positive.” The changes, announced last […]
Last November, Figure Technologies announced the availability of a new sale leaseback offering as an alternative method of home equity tapping when compared to a reverse mortgage. It also makes plain that it seeks to compete with reverse mortgage offerings, since navigating to the product’s dedicated page on Figure’s website immediately greets visitors with a […]
The partial shutdown of the United States federal government that is currently in effect has become the longest one in history, ending its 31st consecutive day on Monday and having widespread ramifications for over 800,000 federal workers and dozens of federal agencies. While direct ramifications to the production of reverse mortgage business have been minimal […]
The leadership team behind a new equity release product made available at the end of 2018 understands that it is competing with standard home equity conversion products like reverse mortgages, but also say that the increasing prevalence of tools dedicated to tapping home equity is helpful in educating prospective customers about ways in which they […]
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