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Thank you once again to Reverse Mortgage Daily’s dedicated base of readers for your continued support! As a reminder, RMD and Aging Media Network’s offices will be closed on Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Our normal posting schedule and daily email will resume on the morning of […]
Alternative equity tapping options – including products like sale leaseback or shared equity investments – do not typically have an age restriction similar to the ones which are active for reverse mortgage products. Nevertheless, for a senior who is looking to tap into the equity they’ve built up in their home, it is possible that […]
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P), a transaction in which a reverse mortgage can be used to fund the purchase of a new home, represents only a small share of the full activity of the larger reverse mortgage business, a figure pegged at 6.7% according to 2019 HMDA data. However, two lenders who […]
The reverse mortgage industry, as with virtually any other business, has a greater ability to thrive when more people decide to enter it. With some companies focusing on helping traditionally forward mortgage loan officers make a transition into reverse either as a new full-time focus or to add to their repertoire of offerings, those LOs […]
In terms of the available options that consumers have to tap into their home equity, so far the paths toward that goal are relatively isolated to something like a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) or a reverse mortgage, either proprietary or a Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM). While that is […]
It’s important for everyone working in the reverse mortgage industry today to work as not only a brand ambassador for their own company, but as an ambassador for the reverse mortgage product category itself. This is one of the ways in which the word about reverse mortgages can be spread further, and how the share […]
The employment of a senior’s home equity in an effort to produce better retirement outcomes by either paying for expenses or increasing a retiree’s quality of life is a cornerstone of the messaging employed by the reverse mortgage industry. Increasingly, alternative equity tapping products are finding a place in the conversation, as several companies have […]
Since a reverse mortgage is a complicated financial product, the way that direct-to-consumer advertising for the industry is structured can often make or break the perspectives that people can have about the product category. There are a fair amount of limitations concerning how reverse mortgages can be responsibly positioned to prospective customers since only senior […]
