Proprietary reverse mortgages gain market share in 2025

Proprietary reverse mortgages gain market share in 2025

New View Advisors, which released its initial quarterly index at the end of October, estimated that private-label loans started 2025 with a market share of about 30%. Based on volume in December,... Read more »
Home care crisis drives innovation for aging in place

Home care crisis drives innovation for aging in place

Home care is one of the nation’s fastest-growing occupations. In 2024, 3.2 million home health and personal care aides were on the job — up from 1.4 million in 2014, according to... Read more »
Skyrocketing health care costs threaten early retirement

Skyrocketing health care costs threaten early retirement

Middle-income Americans ages 50 to 64 are most at risk, according to KFF data cited in a recent report from Kiplinger.   This group is too young for Medicare and could see... Read more »
Elon Musk says retirement savings could become ‘irrelevant’

Elon Musk says retirement savings could become ‘irrelevant’

Musk envisions a future of unprecedented productivity, where advances in artificial intelligence, energy and robotics produce economic “abundance” and even a so-called “universal high income” that might make long-term savings unnecessary, Business... Read more »
Social Security proposals raise stakes for senior homeowners

Social Security proposals raise stakes for senior homeowners

Ideas cited by the Brookings Institution from the Progressive Policy Institute, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Cato Institute all recommend shifting the program away from its current wage-replacement structure toward... Read more »
Aging America reshapes retirement, exposes divides

Aging America reshapes retirement, exposes divides

Yet the experience of aging remains sharply unequal, shaped by gaps in savings, access to workplace plans, and the rising costs of health care and long-term care. Retirement accounts swell as boomers... Read more »
NRMLA backs New Jersey bill clarifying reverse mortgage rules

NRMLA backs New Jersey bill clarifying reverse mortgage rules

The letter was signed by NRMLA President Steve Irwin. “We commend the sponsors for introducing this bill as it provides necessary clarity and common-sense regulatory relief that directly supports the core function... Read more »
Proprietary reverse mortgages gain market share in 2025

FHA increases HECM limit to $1.25M in 2026

The new limit also covers Freddie Mac’s special exception areas — Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The new limit, a $39,375 difference from last year, marks the 10th straight... Read more »