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Cape Coral leads in rising negative equity, as ICE report highlights early signs of housing stress nationwide.
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.
Millions of homeowners who bought when mortgage rates were high are finding it difficult to refinance as rates remain stubbornly elevated above 6.6 percent. Many homeowners expect ...
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 ...
Compare the numbers: If your mortgage balance exceeds your home’s market value, your mortgage is underwater. Example : You owe $250,000 on your mortgage, but your home’s market value is $235,000.
After home prices soared in many parts of the country during and after the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve started to stabilize ...
Homeowners who bought around the peak of the market are increasingly finding they owe more on their mortgages than their ...
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 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 ...
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 ...