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Cash-poor, house-rich: The retirement dilemma driving reverse mortgages
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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It's a bit of a bummer the mindset is around sending interest payments to banks instead downsizing and releasing property back into the market. I was hopeful there might be some kind of market correction as the boomers cash out on their "investments" but it seems like there will be no break for Gen Z and instead we can look forward to bank profits instead.
I wonder what kind of dividends they pay?
About $1AUD per share for ANZ and Westpac for their upcoming dividend.
Obviously the RoI is more complicated. But a S&P 500 index ETF is about a 12th of that per share.
Per share isn't a good measure. You can split the same company into a hundred shares, a thousand shares, or a million shares. Cutting the pizza into more pieces doesn't change the size of the pizza.
I don't have a good alternative but maybe % of value?
Yeah, that was the convenient metric I could put my hands on and bother typing out in mobile.
S&P 500 ETF gross dividend yield 0.71%
ANZ 5.22%
Westpac 4.41%
So the banks are considerably more profitable than the entire S&P 500.
Yeah, it sounds like they will just refuse to sell for less than what they think the house is worth, and would rather have all their equity slowly chewed up by compound interest.
The kids can go fuck themselves.