[tag]Home Equity Conversion Mortgage[/tag] (HECM) [tag]interest rates[/tag] rose in the past week to their highest levels since September 1. [tag]HECM[/tag] rates are well above the average for the year but below the 52-week highs reached in late June.

[tag]Reverse mortgages[/tag] are specialized [tag]mortgage products[/tag] available only to [tag]senior citizen[/tag] homeowners. HECMs are the most popular kind of reverse mortgage. Interest rates for both annual- and monthly- adjusting HECM loans are indexed to the one-year constant maturity [tag]US Treasury rate[/tag].

Under a reverse mortgage, the lender makes loan payments to the borrower and the loan is repaid when the house is sold or the homeowner dies. The adjustable interest rate determines how fast the loan balance grows.

Rates on the [tag]Fannie Mae[/tag] Home Keeper, another reverse mortgage program, held steady this past week at its 52-week high level of 8.75%.

Reverse Mortgage Rates
Product	This Week	Last Week	52-Week Avg	52-Week High	52-Week Low
HECM Monthly Adjusting	6.53%	6.40%	6.29%	6.77%	5.69%
[tag]HECM[/tag] Annual Adjusting	8.13%	8.00%	7.89%	8.37%	7.29%
[tag]Fannie Mae[/tag] [tag]Homekeeper[/tag]	8.75%	8.75%	8.24%	8.75%	7.38%

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