The Wall Street Journal reports on a growing—and unwanted—trend among homeowners. More of them are now underwater on their ...

Concerns about rampant foreclosures aren’t high, as stricter lending standards are in place than back in 2008.

As the housing market cools, a rise in delinquency rates and underwater mortgages could be a foreboding sign for the future.

Homeowners who bought around the peak of the market are increasingly finding they owe more on their mortgages than their ...

After home prices soared in many parts of the country during and after the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve started to stabilize ...

If you owe more on your home than it’s worth, your mortgage is considered “underwater.” Hundreds of thousands of U.S. homeowners find themselves in this situation every year. Meanwhile ...

Underwater mortgage refinance options are typically limited. If you want to refinance your mortgage, you'll need to wait until home values rebound or until you've paid off enough of your loan to ...

Underwater mortgages are much less common now than they were in the Great Recession. Back then, some 12 million borrowers were in a negative equity state. Today, just over one million are, a ...

Around 270,000 Americans who borrowed a mortgage to buy a home in 2022 are now at least marginally underwater, according to a Dec. 5 report from Black Knight, a mortgage analytics company.

"An underwater mortgage is only an issue for homeowners that want or need to sell," says Dan Green, CEO of the mortgage lender Homebuyer. "If prices drop, the best thing everyday homeowners can do ...

Underwater mortgages are a proper barrier for sellers — more so even than mortgage rates. Therefore, the fact that this data line is just 0.1% away from all-time lows makes me smile this holiday ...

An underwater mortgage, also called an upside-down mortgage, occurs when the loan's principal balance is higher than the home's fair market value, resulting in negative equity. In other words… ...