Real estate professionals are reporting that borrowers of color with good income and good credit are still finding it challenging to get loans to purchase homes. Editor’s Note: This feature originally appeared in the September issue of DS News.
Read More »Addressing Reverse Mortgages After the Death of a Borrower
Lender OneWest Bank has won a victory in a recent foreclosure case involving deceased borrowers and non-borrowing spouses, with a Florida appeals court reversed an earlier ruling in the case. The events surrounding the case of OneWest Bank, FSB v. ...
Read More »Ranking Reverse Mortgage-Backed Securities Issuance
NewView Advisors, LLC, a financial services firm based in New York, has released a new look at the state of HECM mortgage-backed securities for the first quarter of 2018. HECM is the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ...
Read More »Which U.S. Cities are Embracing Reverse Mortgages?
California cities dominate the top 10 U.S. cities where reverse mortgages are most often used, according to a new study by LendingTree. California cities accounted for four of the top 10 slots in LendingTree’s report, but none of them managed ...
Read More »FHA Reverse Mortgage MBS Issuances Surged in Q4 2017
NewView Advisors, LLC, a financial services firm based in New York, has released a new look at the state of HECM mortgage-backed securities for 2017. HECM is the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage reverse mortgage program, which ...
Read More »Is HECM Down for the Count?
Beset by uncertainty in the housing market, the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program (HECM) is losing money and cannot continue on in its present form. To make the program viable, FHA announced numerous necessary changes to the HECM Program to ...
Read More »FHA Proposes Enhancements to HECM Program
FHA was praised last year for making changes to its HECM program that helped non-borrowing spouses avoid foreclosure. What further changes did the FHA propose to help seniors sustain their HECM loans?
Read More »Is Something Amiss in the Reverse Mortgage Industry?
Why has an advocacy group asked HUD to impose a moratorium on reverse mortgage foreclosures?
Read More »HUD Widely Praised For Amending HECM Program, Helping Seniors Avoid Foreclosure
On Friday, HUD amended its HECM policy again, this time to include reverse mortgages originated prior to August 4, 2014, giving borrowers expanded options to allow the non-borrowing spouse to remain in the home if the reverse mortgage was originated before that date.
Read More »Representative Waters Asks HUD For More Transparency For Non-Borrowing Spouses on HECMs
In an announcement regarding the letter to Castro, Waters said that many senior citizens have faced foreclosure or will face foreclosure due to "fraudulent lending practices" on the part of lenders surrounding HUD's previous protocol for the HECM program.
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