The Negative Equity Buyer: This type of buyer is at an extreme disadvantage for several reasons.
Not exact matches
At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (
negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no
buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.
Any initiatives focussed purely on first time
buyers, without a sufficient increase in house building, could push prices up for entry level properties; particularly if second time movers have low or
negative equity.
Guaranteed Asset Protection (GAP) coverage is designed to close the «gap» between the
negative equity and the insurance payout for car
buyers whose vehicles are stolen or damaged beyond repair.
Second, this type of
buyer will usually get sucked into more expensive vehicles by the salesman to «hide» the
negative equity (the only thing you're hiding here is your intelligence).
Most new - car
buyers drive off the lot with
negative equity.
Negative equity hurts the fluidity of the market, keeping potential
buyers and sellers stuck in their homes.
Not every homeowner in
negative equity was a subprime
buyer.
Significant private
equity experience - seven times generated significant value creation through sale of investment company to a strategic
buyer Expertise in transforming underperforming operations (many times
negative cash...
The housing market faces challenges, such as the number of home owners still facing
negative equity, inventories of for - sale homes remaining constrained, and mortgage credit remaining tight and preventing some
buyers from qualifying for a loan.
On the flip side, a number of markets nationwide continue to struggle with slower job growth, weaker home value appreciation and higher rates of
negative equity, giving
buyers more negotiating power.»