Tag: reverse mortgage
Using Your House reviews the two most common ways to use your house to boost your income in retirement – downsizing and a reverse mortgage – with clear examples, a discussion of the pros and cons of each approach, and links to tools on the web where you can get estimates of what downsizing or a…
The brief’s key findings are: Reverse mortgages, which allow retirees to tap their home equity, are insured by the government. The financial crisis hurt both the government’s insurance fund and the borrowers. Declining home prices led to losses when homes were sold. More borrowers defaulted. In response, the government has redesigned the program by: creating…
