FHA Reverse Mortgage Losses Of $28 Billion – Profits For Banks, Disaster For Borrowers and Taxpayers

Reverse mortgages have become the new minefield in government sponsored mortgage lending.  According to an independent estimate done for HUD, losses could exceed $28 billion through 2019.  To put that figure into perspective, total losses to the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund for the 51 banking failures of 2012 total only $2.5 billion. The good news […]