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Reversed Mortgage

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I would like to find out more about reversed mortgage

How does it work?

What are the benefits?

Who is it for?
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Re: Reversed Mortgage

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Anonymous wrote:I would like to find out more about reversed mortgage

How does it work?

What are the benefits?

Who is it for?
My comments:
How it works?
Simple. If you have a property fully-paid up. You can do a reverse mortgage. Basically, they will look at current market value of your property, factor in "interest" they charge you and then work out how much you can "draw" from your property on a monthly basis.

Benefits:
So you can actually continue to stay in this property and yet "extract cash" from the property through monthly "income".

Who is it for?
so it can be one way to supplement a person's retirement funds and retirement income. Thus, typically it's mean for retirees.

Currently only private property you can do reverse mortgage. There's on-going discussion to make this available for HDB flats but nothing has been announced or finalised yet.

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Seems complicated to me. Isn't it risky. Can it be redeemed. Wouldn't it be easier to rent out your property? or some rooms? to receive some income in your old age?
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Post by Dennis Ng »

I think the concept is quite simple, as I have explained. Yes, you can redeem the property.

Renting out rooms entails "strangers" living with you, which to some people might even be more complicated.

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I think reverse mortgage is very risky and also very stupid .... there are surely so many other options of getting an income for retirees. I hope people will not be doped into reverse mortgage.
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Post by Dennis Ng »

risks of reverse mortgage include:

1. fluctuation of property value. If property value plunged, how much and how long you can receive "income" becomes a BIG question mark.

2. fluctuation of interest rates. NTUC Incomes says 5% interest rate is "promotional" rates. What they imply is rates are likely to be higher in future. I always tell people don't hurry to pay off housing loan. It's stupid to pay off Housing Loan when you pay interest rate of 3% to 4% and then you "re-borrow" through reverse mortgage at higher interest rates of 5% or higher. When interest rates go higher, how much and how long you can receive "income" also becomes a BIG question mark.

I called NTUC Income and was "passed" around to speak to 4 different persons, each of them only know very little about reverse mortgage. I really worry for the public who might be jumping into reverse mortgage without finding out all the potential risks and dangers as pointed out by guest.

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Dennis Ng - When You Master Your Finances, You Master Your Destiny

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