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Reverse Market Insight
Our seasoned reverse experts along with proprietary software for market data analytics, portfolio valuation, HECM live market pricing, and servicing oversight help retail originators, wholesale lenders, and HMBS issuers, servicers, and investors make more confident decisions to cost-effectively reach their goals.
Reverse Market Insight Gives You an Edge
Trusted Expertise
The industry’s top 10 lenders plus leading brokers, vendors, servicers, and investors all rely on our innovative software and services
Comprehensive Data
Our repository includes public and lender-submitted origination and performance data on all HECM loans, as well as a large population of proprietary products.
Proven Experience
Our team has a combined 100+ years of experience analyzing the reverse mortgage industry.
Capital Markets
If you’re buying, selling, or managing portfolios of reverse market loans, you need accurate valuations, and reliable price prediction to maximize your returns.
RMI has the data-driven tools and experienced pros you can count on including Paul Jacob with substantial background in MBS portfolio management, trading, investment strategy, and analysis and John Lunde, RMI Co-founder and President, with expertise in financial analysis and investment modeling and extensive relationships with leaders at top reverse lenders, servicers and investors
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Manage Profitability: If you’re buying, selling, or managing portfolios, you need accurate valuations and reliable price prediction to maximize your returns. We give everyone in the origination process the information they need for confident loan pricing on wholesale and retail rate sheets.
Inform Every Move: Get accurate valuation of loan portfolios including individual loan values so you can make better decisions up front.
Servicing Oversight
Portfolio Managers and HECM Issuers are often unaware of how operational inefficiencies can inflate loss severities within their servicing portfolios – we can help.
RMI’s team includes Jared Skrabala who helped create, enhance, and lead oversight programs for some of the largest issuers and servicers in Reverse and Thuy Thiesen who has successfully integrated regulatory and investor requirements into our proprietary Servicing Oversight and Portfolio/Asset Management applications.
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Avoid Preventable Losses: Monitor timelines and deadlines to avoid financial penalties and catch potential issues before they escalate to more costly problems
Manage Claims: Successfully oversee the loss draft process for insurance claims and ensure proper documentation and timely repairs to help prevent additional property damage that could affect loan value.
Maximize Loan Resolutions: Better navigate the complex process when borrowers pass away by ensuring heirs understand their options and responsibilities up front and provide better foreclosure avoidance programs.
Origination
Our innovative tools for reverse mortgage originators allows you to focus and maximize your time, effort, and dollars spent prospecting for new borrowers and then maximize your return when you sell your closed loans. To help you get the most from them, Jon McCue ensures each RMI client gets the custom solution they need and John Lunde shares his expertise in financial analysis and investment modeling in the Reverse industry.
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Visualize Opportunity: The comprehensive Retail Dashboard: reveals market size volume. And competition. All the information you need to make informed, smart decisions about your business and discover opportunities in your neighborhoods.
Engage Web Traffic: Our HECM Neighborhood Widget for your website shows visitors the popularity of reverse mortgages in their community and provides a one-click option to send them directly into your lead funnel. Learn more (Find Reverse Borrowers, Widget anchor.)
Improve Profitability: HECM Live Pricing accurately predicts profitability of specific loans you create long before you sell them. .
Proprietary Software
RMI has provided the Reverse mortgage industry with data-driven, innovative software for decades. Co-founder and Vice President Topher Thiesen leads product development and operational performance and his team of experts includes Joe Gloecker and Sean Douglass who ensure RMI provides top level service efficiency in client services.
See our Software In Action
Dashboards: Filled with tools specific to each part of the industry, our dashboards quickly give Originators, Wholesalers, HMBS Issuers/Servicers, and Vendors all the information you need to make informed, smart decisions about your business.
Servicing Oversight: Cutting-edge software equipped with business rules to help Portfolio Managers and HECM Issuers actively manage key timelines and borrower interactions.
Live HECM Loan Pricing: Tools for predicting closed loan auction sale prices and monitoring auction market trends and tools for Pipeline Mark-to-Market Valuation of new origination loans, reflecting up-to-date loan level HMBS market values
APIs: Maximize your sales and marketing performance by pulling individual data sets from the most accurate and comprehensive database in the industry into your own tools.
Our Latest Commentary on Reverse Industry Data
HECM Lenders – September 2025
HECM endorsements rose 7.2% in September to 2,211 loans, bouncing back from a weak August total. The regions were generally higher, with 6 of the ...
- Filed Under: HECM Lenders
HECM Originators – June 2025
HECM endorsements declined -2.3% to 2,243 loans in June, as May proved to be an one month blip. As we have seen so many times ...
- Filed Under: HECM Originators
HECM Lenders – July 2025
HECM endorsements rose 5.6% in July to 2,369 loans, the highest level since February. The regions reversed last month’s weakness, with 7 of the 10 ...
- Filed Under: HECM Lenders
HECM Originators – Apr 2025
It’s been quite the hiatus since we last published this report! We depend on HUD/FHA for this data so we can’t promise the normal schedule ...
- Filed Under: HECM Originators
HECM Lenders – June 2025
HECM endorsements declined -2.3% in June to 2,244 loans, extending a slow trend downward in recent months. The regions were mostly weaker, with just 3 ...
- Filed Under: HECM Lenders
HECM Lenders – May 2025
HECM endorsements declined -1% in May to 2,296 loans, showing remarkable steadiness in the face of recent expected rate increases that reduce cash available at ...
- Filed Under: HECM Lenders
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