Reverse Mortgages for Purchases

Generally thought of as a refinance only transaction, reverse mortgages are also available to qualified borrowers for a purchase transaction. This can be very handy for those who are age appropriate and want to downsize or relocate. No mortgage payments on a new house isn't a bad thing.

Reverse Mortgages for Coops

Bank of New York Mortgage (owned by Everbank now since Chase and BNY did an asset swap) has introduced a jumbo reverse mortgage product for coops. They are one of 2 lenders offering this niche product. The other is Indymac's Financial Freedom (though I couldn't find any information about that on their site).

Tomorrow I attend a workshop about reverse mortgages on coops, so I will know more about them and how they work.

One thing that comes to my mind with these mortgages is: Is there really that much liquidity in the market that institutional investors are willing to just sit on a loan for x number of years without collecting any payments until the loan is due? That's incredible to me.