Rodda, David T.; Lam, Ken; Youn, Andrew - In: Real Estate Economics 32 (2004) 4, pp. 589-617
Federal Housing Administration-insured reverse mortgages, known as Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs), did not originally have a provision for low-cost refinancing. If a borrower's house value increased faster than expected, the borrower could not tap that additional equity without...