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In our HECM Lenders report about July’s volumes, we noted that Metlife’s exit seemed to work through the endorsement numbers faster than Wells and BofA ...
HECM endorsements were up 6.6% in August to 4,122 loans, bouncing back from a level not seen in many years but still the second lowest ...
We’ve written before about the pockets of reverse mortgage growth in what continues to be a down market for the industry overall and this month’s ...
HECM endorsements were up significantly in June to 5,182 loans, 17.1% higher than May. We speculated in last month’s HECM Lenders report about the possibility ...
Last month in this report we talked about two pleasant surprises on the volume side, which leaves us talking about a drop-off this month in ...
HECM Trends is the last report we put out each month, and it provides an interesting context for the rankings and national industry volume figures ...
We’ll keep it short and sweet today with just a few highlights from the May HECM Originators report: Overall endorsements were down 3.6% vs April ...
HECM endorsements rose 16.9% to 5,187 in June, partly on the back of increases from both Metlife and First National Bank of Layton, both of ...
As the reverse mortgage industry fights through a wave of major lender exits, HECM Trends identifies bright(er) spots within the overall industry volume decline. In ...
HECM endorsements rose 5% in April, with the increase roughly similar across both retail/direct and TPO/wholesale channels. These aggregate numbers don’t show a significant spread ...
HECM endorsements were down -3.4% in May to 4,439 units, flirting with the multi-year lows we saw in March. As we’ve noted before, we do ...
Surviving and thriving in the reverse mortgage industry these past few years has required adaptation and flexibility: Where ARMs once dominated the landscape (all at ...
March was the lowest month in recent memory for HECM endorsements, down -19.3% to 4,374 loans. We have to go all the way back to ...
The past few days have been dominated by Metlife’s exit announcement, but regardless of how you feel about that news the impact on industry numbers ...
Our monthly HECM Trends report is a chance to step away from a lender/originator perspective and look more closely at the places where HECM is ...
February HECM endorsements grew 5% while case numbers issued shrank, but what we discover in this month’s HECM Originators report is that third party originators ...
We said last month that we didn’t expect endorsement volumes to continue their good times given the declines in case number assignments and this month ...
Any time we get discouraged by low reverse mortgage volumes, we find it helpful to look below the national totals to find areas where the ...
“Why doesn’t FHA list my company in their volume rankings anymore?” More and more people have been asking where they can find rankings of broker/TPO ...
Our first look at February HECM endorsements is here and it’s a positive story, although not one we expect to last too long. Endorsements were ...
We’ve been fighting off a nasty series of bugs these past 2 weeks, so we’ll keep our intro short this week. The final tally for ...
December’s HECM Originators report brings us final 2011 rankings for both retail/broker/TPO originators and wholesalers, as well as the best view yet of how monthly ...
If your New Years resolution was to produce more loans in 2012, then you had lots of company along for the ride. January HECM endorsements ...
We’re getting closer and closer to the final reports of 2011, so we’ll preface next month’s numbers by showing one of the biggest trends of ...