Wonderful discussion on the benefits of utilizing the reverse mortgage as a retirement planning tool. Of note is the excellent graph which displays the growth potential of the HECM Line of Credit.
Affluent clients of financial planners can use their housing wealth a variety of ways to enhance retirement, including boosting sustainable portfolio withdrawals and delaying social security claiming. As strategic users affluent clients are quite different from many traditional users – often desperate homeowners who grabbed any remaining home equity after exhausting all their other resources. Focusing on affluent clients, this post summarizes key features of reverse mortgages and uses to increase retirement spending and reduce risks in retirement. A growing body of research on reverse mortgages in financial planning goes into depth on many of these topics.
Reverse mortgages have evolved over the years, including significant improvements after 2008’s housing crisis, resulting in enhanced consumer protections, refined federal oversight, reduced costs, and better balance among the interests of clients, lenders and Federal Housing Administration’s insurance backing. The refined design is a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM). The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) administers it following rules laid down by the…
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