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Get the latest news, commentary and insights for the US reverse mortgage and property finance industries.
Founded by Shannon Hicks and now hosted by Gabrielle Hayen, HECM World Weekly is the nation’s longest-running weekly podcast, trusted by reverse mortgage professionals for news, insights and trends on the reverse and wider mortgage industry, property equity, wealth and retirement and much more. Brought to you by Lenderful Solutions.
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Episodes
Apr 3, 2010
Apr 3, 2010
23 min
Talking Points:
- No Fees? How Long?
- Pay to stay? Financial underwriting for borrowers
- RESPA backlash
- Home improvement does not equal reverse mortgage loan
- Day of reckoning: Social Security now paying more than it collects
- Long Term Care: either way the home equity is tapped.
Mar 27, 2010
Mar 27, 2010
13 min
Talking Points:
- Price Wars: No service fee / No Origination?
- Technical foreclosures: are seniors really at risk?
- NRMLA kicks PR initiative into high gear
- Pockets of resistance: some areas show HECM volume increase
Mar 20, 2010
Mar 20, 2010
26 min
Talking Points:
- Reverse Mortgage Spokesman Peter Graves dies
- Security One Lending releases new fixed product without Service Fee Set Aside
- RM Application volumes stops falling
- RM Cross-Selling: Is it all bad?
Mar 14, 2010
Mar 14, 2010
26 min
Talking Points:
- Without a budget subsidy: HECM PLF cuts would be much worse...21%
- Where is AARP when it comes to consumer education on reverse mortgages
- FHA proposing increase in down payment for traditional loans
- Reverse Mortgage Daily announces new commenting policy
Mar 6, 2010
Mar 6, 2010
20 min
Talking points:
- NRMLA board approves new public affairs campaign
- The pension time bomb. State pensions in big trouble
- Security One Lending to serve Credit Unions
- FHA increases upfront MIP for traditional FHA loans
Feb 20, 2010
Feb 20, 2010
22 min
Talking Points:
- New tool helps avoid costly GFE mistakes
- Application volume nosedives in last quarter of 2009
- Veteran HUD counselors stymied by exam
- Why "fiduciary duty" a bad thing?
- Obama administration to promote "annuities"
- New Crime-Busting unit fights reverse mortgage fraud in Florida
- MBA supports Federal guidance of reverse mortgages
Feb 13, 2010
Feb 13, 2010
22 min
Talking Points:
- Independence Day: HVCC...it's here
- Double-dip in home prices according to Zillow
- Rolling the dice: investing in HECMs
- Two companies slammed for alleged misleading advertising
Feb 7, 2010
Feb 7, 2010
22 min
Talking Points:
- Too much, too soon- a L/O's perspective
- Mission Impossible? Telling the truth about HECMs
- Your role in HUD counseling
- 2011- The Reverse Mortgage Apocalypse?
- Pennsylvania carbon copies California RM law
Jan 23, 2010
Jan 23, 2010
19 min
Talking Points:
- Barney Frank wants to eliminate Fannie & Freddie (GSE's)
- Your Online! What your NMLS license will show the public
- Financial Interview Tool for HUD Counseling coming soon
- Rich and unable to get a mortgage
- FHA clamping down hard and raising MIP for traditional loans
Jan 16, 2010
Jan 16, 2010
18 min
Talking Points:
- Are RM originators at a disadvantage for SAFE Act test?
- New regulations target smaller RM lenders
- HECMS are not subsidizing rest of FHA study says
- Hearing voices? Judge voids reverse mortgage
- Are you creditworthy? You may need to be for NMLS license
- Will the Fed stop buying MBS?