This report surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution
and the elderly in OECD countries. It updates a previous Department of Social Security …

Reverse mortgages allow elderly homeowners to unlock and consume home equity without
leaving their homes. Relative to the number of elderly homeowners with limited financial …

Reverse mortgages allow elderly homeowners to tap into their housing wealth without
having to sell or move out of their homes. However, very few eligible homeowners used …

The evaluation of the economic efficiency of investment in real estate, involves the appraisal
and comparison of costs and revenues generated from its production and management. In …

Much prior literature on asset patterns among the elderly has mostly overlooked housing
wealth as a determinant of retiree wealth, particularly in the Japanese context. Yet releasing …

A pricing model is developed for a reverse mortgage contract where the borrower receives
payments either as a lump sum or in an annuity while the loan balance accumulates as a …

We investigate the determinants of interest in reverse mortgages (RM) for a sample of Italian
homeowners and find that the majority of individuals belonging to categories identified, on …

This paper investigates the scope for alleviating poverty among elderly home-owners in the
US by means of reverse mortgages. A reverse mortgage is a loan secured against the home …

Population ageing brings new challenges to long-term household economic decisions. In
the event of old-age dependency, housing assets become a key self-insurance device …

Reverse mortgages are usually seen as a vehicle for increasing the income of poor, elderly
households. This perspective, coupled with the relatively slow growth of reverse mortgage …