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amount of home equity that is expected to be released over a 10-year period through regular monthly mortgage payments. We …
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elderly homeowners' decision to obtain reverse mortgage loans. The findings of this study suggest that very few homeowners … participated in the reverse mortgage market, and homeowners younger than 67 were less likely to have reverse mortgage loans … reverse mortgage loans. Further analyses reveal that among the reverse mortgage participants, homeowners with long-term care …
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This paper focuses on the use of reverse mortgages or home equity conversion mortgages (HECMs) to enhance retirement security. If present trends continue, many American households working today will face a significant retirement funding gap, and this study asks whether reverse mortgages can be...
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Previous retirement adequacy studies have ignored expected retirement income stages. Ignoring retirement income stages results in biased estimations of retirement adequacy. This study analyzes retirement income stage theoretically and then empirically. Based on the 1995 to 2007 Survey of...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of the wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Japan using unique information from two household surveys, and by so doing, attempts to assess the relative importance of precautionary saving and bequest motives in explaining the lower than...
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This paper examines the available data on market conditions for equity release schemes (ERS) in all EU member states to cluster Member States for subsequent extrapolation of the findings from six EU Member States (DE, IT, NL, IE, HU, and the UK) to the EU as a whole. It aggregates various...
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measured by property and mortgage market indicators. Comparing overall need and feasibility index values we find that market …
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The article presents an outline of the principles for granting reverse mortgage loans by banks and other credit … is not to offer a detailed analysis and assessment of the solutions adopted in the new Reverse Mortgage Act, but rather … lifetime annuities, which can in practice distort and subvert the purposes for which the Reverse Mortgage Act was adopted …
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shocks in retirement. The federally insured reverse mortgage offers adults age 62 and older access to home equity with no … older holding a reverse mortgage. In this paper, we review barriers to borrowing from home equity, including an estimate of … the size of the population who may be unable to borrow due to an inability to afford monthly mortgage payments. We …
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