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.

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 ...

Soaring home prices that occurred earlier this decade also gave a massive boost to home equity in the United States, but ...

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

"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 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.

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 ...

Cape Coral leads in rising negative equity, as ICE report highlights early signs of housing stress nationwide.

In April, there were more than 500,000 homeowners with underwater mortgages, according to Intercontinental Exchange. That represented the highest reading for the month since 2020.