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November 1 traditionally marks the return of the NBA to our living rooms, but more importantly this year also saw a big jump in the number of HECM endorsements reported for the month just ended. October rebounded to 4,852 loans, up 29% to the highest level since February.
In a jump that big, many lenders and […]
HECM endorsements bounced back from a dismal showing in August, rising 15.5% to 3,762 loans. That’s still below last year’s pace of 4,527 loans, but the gap is at least narrowing compared to last month’s drop of over 2,000 loans from Aug 2013.
Through 9 months, 2014 is running -6% behind the pace from 2013 in […]
HECM endorsements for August underlined the dog days of summer, declining -20.4% to 3,256 loans. Applications and funding have turned the corner back up toward growth already so this is probably the low point for endorsements following last September’s principal limit factor reductions, but it’s not out of the question to bump along the bottom […]
HECM endorsements rose 4.2% to 4,092 loans in July, up from the 18 month low reached in June. Seven of the ten regions we track were up, with two showing the highest totals in several months.
We’d like to blame our business trip to the East Coast for our delay in getting this newsletter sent out, but in reality we’re still grieving over the US national team’s defeat in the World Cup despite a valiant defensive effort. Getting out of a brutal group stage was a big win, but it still […]
HECM endorsements for May rose 7.9% to 4,498 loans, but still down -12.9% from last year.
HECM endorsements totaled 4,170 loans in April, down -9.7% from March and the lowest level of the past twelve months. We’ve been suggesting for a couple months now that endorsements were
HECM endorsements dropped -10.6% in March to 4,618 loans. That’s an even larger decline (-20.9%) compared to last March, although that’s partly because March 2013 was the highest volume month for the industry since June 2011 – back when Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Metlife were all three still endorsing loans. For now, we’re […]
HECM endorsements rose 2.1% in February to 5,166 loans. This small rise put the industry back into positive year over year territory after showing a small decline in January, but that’s going to get a lot harder as March 2013 volume was at levels we haven’t seen since and application and funding volumes in recent […]
HECM endorsements rose 19.8% in January to 5,061 loans, the highest total since August. Just last month we speculated that volume would dip in the early part of 2014 – and so far at least we couldn’t be happier to be wrong.
Endorsements were up across […]
