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Retail Leaders – July 2009

July’s endorsement data is now available. You could mire yourself in the HUD data to try to glean the nuggets of information it contains, or ...

Industry Trends – June 2009

Where is the summer going? Already the end of July, but not to worry as we have a fresh batch of industry trends for you ...

Wholesale Leaders – June 2009

Wholesale has had a tough couple of months, but looks like June was a little happier in the broker/wholesaler world. After last month’s 20% drop, ...

Industry Trends – May 2009

Yes, we know that it’s July and this report shows May numbers, but rest assured it’s not a typo. We’re crossing our fingers that we’ll ...

Wholesale Leaders – May 2009

After a lengthy delay, we finally have the Wholesale Leaders Report for May available, and the results certainly reflect the trends seen in the HECM ...

Retail Leaders – June 2009

Retail endorsement results are out for the month of June, with overall volume for the month coming in at 8,633 units – a 2.8% increase ...

UPDATE – $798 Million Subsidy Request

After a great deal of interest around the industry from our recent post on HUD’s FY2010 subsidy request for the HECM program, some friends in ...

Retail Leaders – May 2009

May endorsement numbers are out, and they ain’t pretty – unit volume of 8,396 for the month dropped 28% vs April, and was the second ...

Industry Trends – April 2009

April’s Industry Trends report is finally out, a bit later than normal, but still chock full of interesting statistics. Two record months in a row ...

Wholesale Leaders – April 2009

Our Wholesale Leader’s Report is now up for April. Recent trends are continuing, as retail endorsement growth once again came in stronger than the wholesale ...

Trend Watching – Fixed Rate HECMs

We periodically receive questions about various HECM rate types and how prevalent they are in the marketplace. One of the specific questions we’ve seen resurrected ...

HUD Signals HECM Future

If you haven’t seen the recent Obama budget request for $800 million for the HECM program, the basics have been covered well over at RMD. ...

Can Ginnie Mae Save HECM Originators From Fannie Mae Rate Hikes?

Our industry has seen quite a few margin increases in the past year or more, such that even with historically low index rates the higher ...

Retail Leaders – April 2009

There’s a lot to say about April, but the headlines will undoubtedly read that the industry set a second consecutive record for monthly endorsement volume, ...

Trend Watching – HECM Apps

It struck me the other day that we don’t talk nearly enough about applications here, especially since most of the endorsement information we do talk ...

Wholesale Leaders – March 2009

We’ve already talked extensively about the volume increase in March, so check out the Retail Leaders and Industry Trends posts if you’d like to see ...

March 2009 Industry Trends

A record endorsement month in March has generated lots of excitement in the industry, so let’s get below the headline and see where the profitable ...

NCSECU Product, Revisited

We’ve had a lot of new people sign up for ReverseIQ since our first post last October, so thanks to everyone for your interest and ...

Reverse Mortgage Consumer Interest

Interesting chart from Google’s search trend analysis tool.. There has been a noticeable decline in the amount of search volume for reverse mortgages since peaking ...

March Retail Leaders

At long last, endorsements are finally starting to show the spike in volumes from the $417k Loan Limit increase. Endorsement volume set a new record ...

February Wholesale Leaders

There has been very little wholesale reporting in the reverse mortgage industry to date, but we’re doing our part to correct that situation with our ...

February 2009 Industry Trends

We hope you’re all having a great start to spring and enjoying the fruits of higher HECM loan limits. As promised, we’re rolling out our ...

Volume vs. Values In New Loan Limit Era

If you’re wondering exactly how the recently enacted legislation has affected the reverse industry, you’re not alone. More specifically, we’ve gotten a couple questions about ...

February 2009 Retail Leaders

February is in the books, time to break out the spreadsheets and see what stories the numbers tell us. In a continuation of recent trends, ...