Posted on 12/29/2016 10:05:50 AM PST by Lorianne
He is known in China as the "godfather of real estate," helping lay the groundwork for private homeownership in China, a move that enriched millions and laid the foundations for a vibrant and thriving Chinese middle class.
Now, Meng Xiaosu wants a lot of Chinese — the older ones, specifically — to cash out.
Older people need to mortgage their homes to address China's looming demographic bust, Mr. Meng argues. Because of China's now-defunct one-child policy and other social trends, the country has a rapidly graying population that someday soon may become too expensive for the Chinese government to support.
Mr. Meng's proposed solution is to bring reverse mortgages to China. Called a house-for-pension plan in China, a reverse mortgage allows homeowners to tap the equity in their homes by taking out loans against it.
His argument faces deep business and cultural opposition — mortgaging homes is a tough sell in a country where parents traditionally passed them on to their children — and only a few dozen people in all the country have signed up so far. But he argues that China may have little choice.
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I’m confused about China doing anything with mortgages. Reason being, under communism, there is not supposed to be private ownership in the first place. Are ordinary Chinese people allowed to own a detached single family home???
Does any Freeper have a reverse mortgage?
Or does anyone here know about them? What good are they?
Are you essentially selling your house to them at todays price for a guaranteed income until you die, and then they get the house?
RM can be well done, or badly. Since it’s China, I’m guessing...
What could possibly go wrong?
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