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Home » Study Calls for Servicing, Loss Mit To Stem HECM Foreclosures
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Study Calls for Servicing, Loss Mit To Stem HECM Foreclosures

February 26, 2018
A greater focus on reverse-mortgage servicing and loss mitigation would be effective in addressing property-charge foreclosures while also preserving the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program’s core mission of helping cash-strapped senior citizens, says a new study from the National Consumer Law Center. The study by staff attorney Odette Williamson and Sarah Mancini, of counsel to the NCLC, said the government’s mistaken response to surging insurance claims and increasing defaults on property tax and insurance obligations was to change origination policies. Specifically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development reduced the proceeds available through a reverse mortgage and imposed new underwriting guidelines to curb rising reverse-mortgage foreclosures and stem increased losses to the FHA insurance fund. Although the repercussions of the two distinct problems related to ...
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