Reverse Mortgage News by HECMWorld

E875: Why Retirees Who Move to Lower-Tax States Don’t Save as Much as Expected

• [Housing Wire / HUD] HUD OIG report found HECM residency fraud and few controls. 
• [Housing Wire] Have advisors lost interest in the HECM?
• [Wall Street Journal] Why retirees who relocate to states with no income tax don't always save money.

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E874: The Retirement Debt Pandemic

• [National Debt Relief] Survey shows debt in retirement is the new reality.
• [Moravec Varga & Mooney] Reverse mortgages and probate.
• [Yahoo Finance] The Florida housing boom is over.

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E873: In Memoriam

• [HECMWorld] The reverse mortgage community recently lost these two men.
• [Housing Wire] Finance of America's CEO gives an update on the status of the HMBS 2.0 program.
• [HECMWorld] Mutual of Omaha Mortgage released this new private or proprietary reverse mortgage. Here's what we know... 
• [HECMWorld] FHA HECM data is back online!

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E872: Funding an Early Inheritance with a Reverse Mortgage

• [Faith-Fi] The pros and cons of funding and early inheritance with a reverse mortgage.
• [The National Review] HUD bans non-permanent aliens from getting government-backed loans.
• [HECMWorld] How home sales influence reverse mortgage lending. 

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E870: How to Supercharge the HECM for Purchase

• [HECMWorld Exclusive] How to supercharge the H4P.
• [Go Banking Rates] 4 reasons baby boomers are house-poor in retirement.
• [Oregon Live] Mom has a reverse mortgage but needs to move for long-term care. 

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E869: HECM National Servicing Center Faces DOGE Closure

• [Housing Wire] HECM National Servicing Center Faces DOGE Closure.
• [Bloomberg | Housing Wire] The CFPB Ain't Dead Yet.
• [HECMWorld Exclusive] How one HECM pro has leveraged the power of storytelling to reach older homeowners. 

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E868: It’s not a good time to be a Home Equity Alternative Company

• [Ballard Spahr LLP] Massachusetts AG sues Hometap.
• [Housing Wire] An Internal memo reveals where DOGE plans to slash HUD's budget and staffing.
• [Reverse Market Insight] RMI's Market Minute with Jon McCue. 

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E867: A Cure for 'Perma-Renting' in Reverse

• [The Financial Post] A Cure for 'Perma-Renting' in Reverse.
• [Fortune] The Boomer Housing Crisis is On Pace to Get Worse.
• [HECMWorld Exclusive] How One Reverse Mortgage Pro Generated 37 Leads in Three Months. 

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E866: How a Reverse Mortgage Paid Off for Me — Twice

• [Money Talk News] How a Reverse Mortgage Paid Off for Me — Twice.
• [NPR} CFPB Headquarters Closed: Agency Neutered & Budget Axed.
• [The Center for Retirement Research] A think tank's 17-step plan to fix Social Security. 

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E865: The Trump administration halts most CFPB work

• [HECMWorld] An update on Chicago-are scammer: the rest of the story.
• [AP News} Scott Turner confirmed as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• [CBS News] 3 Reasons to borrow against a paid-off home.
• [Lending Tree] Nearly all Adults 66-71 have non-mortgage debt.

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