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Reverse mortgage securities continue downward march

The reverse mortgage securities market continues to show the side effects ... New View predicts that HMBS float will fall below $55 billion by the end of February, which may create liquidity concerns ... read more

Tax Refunds Up From This Time 2016 -- Why?

Global bond yields are brutally low, which bullishly means that ... the minutes discussed reinvesting the matured proceeds of mortgage-backed securities into Treasuries in the near future, meaning ... read more

Fed Moves to Maintain Low Mortgage Rates: 5 Things to Know

After a brief flare-up in the early part of the summer, mortgage rates have drifted back to extremely low ... Rates Hit 4-Year Lows: 5 Things to Know.] 1. Original program: The Fed unveiled its progra... read more

Annaly Capital Makes Shrewd Move To Boost Future Interest Income

The 2013 first quarter was tough on the holdings and book values of the mortgage REIT companies ... agency mortgage-backed security values. Annaly Capital Management (NYSE:NLY) took advantage of the l... read more

A decade after the financial crisis, mortgage market still needs fixes

However, the existing Fannie and Freddie mortgage backed securities and bond investors must ... If housing prices fall below trend lines, then the reverse should happen. What America's Thinking read more

Financial matters: The risks and rewards of leverage

For example, financial firms can leverage up using what is known as a reverse repurchase ... when the value of the mortgage bonds that two securities dealers, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, had bor... read more

Orono prosecutes 74-year-old, saying she rented her lakeshore dock illegally

The 74-year-old grandmother lives on about $1,500 a month between Social Security and an annuity, she said. She has a reverse mortgage just to pay property ... adding that docks fall under the authori... read more

Can you build a $1 million nest egg from scratch at age 50?

These figures fall short of $1 million, but you're still talking about ... less expensive digs or by taking out a reverse mortgage (or, for that matter, downsizing and keeping the option of doing a re... read more

8 reasons you may be unprepared for retirement

Misunderstanding risk If you can't accept the risk of losing money in a retirement account, you will be limited to investments with very low returns ... sell/downsize or tap into the equity with a rev... read more

General Lending Environment Trends; July Events; What's Moving Rates?

With flat growth, low inventory, and margin compression ... refinance, renovation and reverse mortgage loans. Stearns Lending, LLC is a leading provider of mortgage lending services in Wholesale, Reta... read more

Housing Won't Survive A Rate Hike Cycle

Low rates have propped up the housing market ... Incomes have not risen with housing prices. Further, mortgage rates did not fall because of higher demand for mortgage securities. Rather, they fell be... read more

6 Ways to Fix a Retirement Savings Shortfall

One reason, she says, is low yields on bonds, a traditional retirement income ... can be tapped by downsizing to a cheaper property or by taking out a loan. A reverse mortgage can provide a lump sum o... read more