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Loan doubles lure reverse mortgage providers

... loans for the products more than doubled in 2005. Datamonitor's new report includes figures that forecast the reverse mortgage market will have reached $3 billion by 2010. Datamonitor's financial services analyst and co-author of the report, Emily Tonkin ...

Full steam ahead for reverse mortgages

A growing number of companies are providing reverse mortgage products and the more providers there are the better for consumers, said the industry's peak body SEQUAL. This month, both ABN Amro and Mariner Financial Services released their reverse mortgage ...

Demand for reverse mortgage on the rise

After a three-month long search and consultation, financial advisory group Lonsdale has appointed three reverse mortgage providers: Bluestone Equity Release, Macquarie and OFM Investment Group to team up with its network of 170 financial advisers. Lonsdale's ...

OFM targets aged care market

... enter aged care accomodation. These bonds are increasingly being funded through reversed mortgages. OFM offers reverse mortgage products tailored to fund accommodation bonds. "This acquisition is the next step in our strategy to become the pre-eminent ...

Mariner releases product, "unlocking the equity in family homes"

Mariner Retirement Solutions has launched a "reverse mortgage" product that allows retirees to borrow between 10 to 40 per cent of the value of their homes. The no repayments product allows retirees to borrow single lump sums, of between $10,000 and ...

S&P to rate reverse mortgages

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has signalled its intentions to provide ratings information for reverse mortgage-backed securities (RVMBS) in the Australian and New Zealand markets. The ratings house is currently formulating the criteria that will be used to ...

Popularity of reverse mortgages set to rise

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2005
An ageing Australian population and a widening retirement savings gap are set to give rise to a robust reverse mortgage industry, analysts say. But the product needed a significant public perceptions makeover if financial planners were to broaden the ...

Macquarie launches mortgages in reverse

Macquarie Bank has launched a reverse mortgage called 'Silver Lining' which will allow retirees to convert the equity in their home into an income. "Reverse mortgages allow people who have become asset rich but cash poor to enjoy life now. Their house ...

Home loans group calls on government to support reverse mortgage

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2004
The federal government should consider helping Australian retirees with inadequate superannuation by supporting reverse mortgages, a specialist home loans group said today. Bluestone Equity Release, a subsidiary of non-conforming lender Bluestone Group ...

Reverse Mortgages on the comeback: Datamonitor

... an environment that is conducive to the product's development." But according to the report, fewer than 5000 reverse mortgage loans were advanced in 2003 contributing to a maximum $250 million outlayed with the majority being provided by CBA and St George. ...