Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell by 16.4% in the month of June 2020, for a total of 4,203 loans according to the latest HECM Originators report from Reverse Market Insight (RMI). The fall came on the heels of a massive endorsement spike observed in May, and still accounted for the second highest endorsement […]
While the reverse mortgage industry has managed to weather the economic shock of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic reasonably well in the broader financial situation we’re now living in, some lenders are also still managing to grow. Taking a strategic approach to the ways in which economic shock can be endured or even avoided is something […]
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell by 14.1% in the month of March 2020, for a total of 2,905 loans according to the latest HECM Originators report from Reverse Market Insight (RMI). The fall was led by the wholesale endorsement segment of business, which experienced a decrease of 17% that month, while retail levels […]
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell by 13.6% in the month of December 2019, for a total of 2,456 loans according to the latest HECM Originators report from Reverse Market Insight (RMI). The fall was led by the wholesale endorsement segment of business, which experienced a decrease of 21.1% that month, while wholesale levels […]
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements increased by 59.2% to 3,919 loans for the month of January 2020, the highest level observed since February 2019, a month in which the data was artificially inflated due to the obscuring effects of a partial federal government shutdown that took place early last year. The majority of the […]
Mahwah, N.J.-based reverse mortgage lender Longbridge Financial announced the hiring of three new employees – two account executives and one partner support specialist – who will be working for the company’s wholesale lending division. Cesar Flores, a 10-year veteran of the reverse mortgage industry, joins Longbridge as a wholesale account executive. His experience has included […]
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements dropped by 13.4% to 2,461 loans for the month of December 2019, another decrease along similar lines to the one observed in November with the six of the top 10 lenders recording endorsement decreases. This is according to the December HECM Lenders report compiled by Reverse Market Insight (RMI). […]
When Reverse Mortgage Daily launched The RMD Podcast in 2019, the site did so in an attempt to provide additional context and (literal) voice to some of the biggest, most prominent issues and players in the reverse mortgage industry. The episodes that have been released thus far have had guests ranging from the most visible […]
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements rose by 36% in the month of October, for a total of 2,551 loans according to the latest HECM Originators report from Reverse Market Insight (RMI). The rise was led by the retail endorsement segment of business, which experienced an increase of 45% that month, while wholesale levels recorded […]
While the reverse mortgage industry has seen its share of change, the top-10 lenders by volume has remained relatively unchanged over the last year. Yet the lender rankings within the top 10 have shifted, to present a top-10 in October 2019 that looks different in some ways from the same tabulation a year earlier. RankCompany […]
