HUD’s September 2019 HECM Endorsement Summary Report released this week shows a total of 2,420 endorsements, 3.4% higher than August’s 2,341 units, our writeup of which can be found here: NV Endorsement 2019_09. There was no change in the endorsement count ranking of the top 15 originators from August. Live Well Financial will fall off the charts in about six months. As previously mentioned, endorsement volume has been fluctuating at about 2,500 units a month since March. Even with the modest production increases aided by falling interest rates, the industry is still on track to endorse just 31,000 HECMs in calendar year 2019, a 26% decrease from 2018 and the lowest level of production since 2003.
For September, New View Advisors is introducing a report we call “WBWFW.” Apart from analyzing HUD’s endorsement data, New View Advisors also compiles publicly available Ginnie Mae data showing which HMBS issuers buy HECMs from which lenders, or Who Buys What From Whom. Unlike endorsement data, which is a lagging indicator and less representative of current market activity, Ginnie Mae data shows HECM unpaid principal balance (UPB) securitized in the current month.
The WBWFW supplement comes in three parts:
- Top Originators, a ranking by original HECM UPB of all 1,229 lenders over the last twelve months;
- WBWFW, an alphabetical cross-reference between every lender and the HMBS issuer that securitizes its loans; and
- Top 100 Trends, a breakdown of loan sales by month, by Top-100 lender, by HMBS issuer.
Edited samples from this month’s WBWFW report are at the end of our endorsement writeup. These reports together provide accurate insight for sales and marketing teams to learn just who’s buying what from whom. The dataset is more complete and timely than what endorsement analysis can show.
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