Reverse mortgages

Walter Investment Management Corp. lost $101.8 million in the third quarter, driven by goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges of $60.8 million and noncash charges of $17 million.

A financial report due out soon could reignite a battle over whether the Federal Housing Administration should again reduce its annual premium.

National reverse mortgage originator Longbridge Financial has received investments from Ellington Financial and Home Point Capital.

Americans are carrying higher levels of debt as they head into retirement, raising the specter of financial headaches in their old age, according to Prudential Financial.

Servicers got what they asked for when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau limited the specificity of certain requirements in its final servicing rule. Now they may regret it.

Nationstar is preparing its third securitization this year, and sixth overall, of nonperforming and inactive reverse mortgages under a Federal Housing Administration reverse mortgage program.

Quarterly profit at CIT Group plunged after the in Livingston, N.J., company recorded $167 million in charges tied to its discontinued reverse-mortgage servicing unit.

Nationstar Mortgage is issuing its fifth securitization of nonperforming reverse mortgages, a unique esoteric RMBS class the mortgage servicer has engaged in four previous transactions.

Home Equity Conversion Mortgages can be a valuable retirement tool to older borrowers who qualify for the product, and lenders who shy from offering them are doing their clients a costly disservice.

A Bipartisan Policy Center commission tasked with addressing the issues related to retirement security and savings that older Americans face called for the creation of a pool for low-dollar reverse mortgage loans.