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Ever wonder which city or cities you should be marketing in? This is generally one of the first questions we get asked by new lender ...
Our first report of the new year and we have a new top wholesale lender to report. After an extended run of growth in the ...
The retail endorsement numbers for February 2010 are now available. Endorsement volume came in at 7,024 units for the month, a 7.9% drop from January, ...
In any other circumstance, we wouldn’t be bidding a fond farewell to 2009 since it was the first decline in overall industry volume in recent ...
As we offer up the last of our 2009 Wholesale Leaders report, it is perhaps fitting that in the year of “too big to fail” ...
The retail endorsement numbers for the January 2010 are now available. Endorsement volume came in at 7,629 units for the month, an 8% drop from ...
Below you’ll find the Wholesale Leaders report with data updated through November 2009. Wholesale volume dropped almost 17% from October, to 3,901 endorsements. This brings ...
Our “Industry Trends” report is now available, with data updated through November ’09. The stories haven’t changed much throughout the year – since the lending ...
Hope everyone had a great weekend and is either enjoying a relaxing holiday or at least enjoying the reduced distractions if you are sneaking in ...
The December 2009 endorsement data has been put out by HUD, bringing us to the conclusion of a tumultuous year in the reverse mortgage industry. ...
Wholesale volume dropped 15.7% from last month to 4,692 loans. This brings the YTD total to 50,709 units, a drop of just over 6% vs ...
Our Industry Trends report for October is now available (see the link at the bottom of this post for the full PDF). We’ve been talking ...
In hindsight, the easiest piece of forecasting all year might have been to predict that we wouldn’t get a chance to publish our follow up ...
November’s endorsement numbers are in and the volume was pretty weak, coming in at 7,738 units for the month. This is down almost 12% from ...
We may not think of Q3 as having any surprises left for us, but rather than harping on the continued HECM volume move to higher ...
Wholesale results are in for the month of September, and of course that means the HUD Fiscal Year as well. Overall wholesale volume for the ...
October numbers are in and the month proved more trick than treat for HECM volume, down 7.4% from September. This isn’t a reflection on the ...
What makes the difference between a successful originator and someone who is getting out of the business in 2009? In our humble opinion it probably ...
Summer is gone and apparently the reverse mortgage market cooled down a bit early as well. We already knew that total industry activity was down ...
Sometimes it seems that the more things change, the more things stay the same. Despite tremendous changes underneath the surface this year (lending limits increased, ...
Our Retail Leaders report for August, 2009 is now available. Overall industry volume fell 9% from July, coming in at 8,933 units for the month, ...
The end of August is near, and that means it’s time for the monthly Industry Trends report. We’ve mentioned a couple times already that endorsement ...
Our Wholesale Leaders report is now available for July, 2009. Wholesale made up 5,392 of the 9,828 units done in July, bringing the YTD number ...
As you all no doubt have noticed, the $798 million FY 2010 HUD subsidy request for the HECM program is the story that won’t (and ...