Sentences with phrase «equity in housing faster»

Although no one likes to pay more each month than they once did, the net result will be that homeowners will build equity in housing faster and therefore increase their net worth.»

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In the U.S., he said, housing will «always remain as a primary playbook for stimulating the U.S. economy» and «homeowners will continue to believe that increased home equity is a faster highway to creating wealth than accumulating wealth by working for a living.»

The financial affliction of negative homeowners» equity, in which the house is worth less than the mortgage due, is fast fading.

• Unlike in the U.S., underwriting standards for qualifying mortgage borrowers in Canada have been maintained at prudent levels resulting in mortgage borrowers here being much more creditworthy; • Canadian mortgage lenders never offered low initial «teaser» rate mortgages that led to most of the difficulties for mortgage borrowers in the U.S.; • Most mortgages in Canada are held by their original lender, not packaged and sold to third parties as is typical in the U.S., and consequently, Canadian mortgage lenders have a vested interest in ensuring that their mortgage borrowers are creditworthy and not likely to default; • Only 0.3 % of Canadian mortgages are in arrears versus 4.5 % in the U.S. and what even before the start of the U.S. housing meltdown two years ago was 2 %; • Canadians tend to pay down their mortgage faster than in the U.S. where mortgage interest is deductible from taxes, which encourages U.S. homeowners to take equity out of their homes to finance other spending, a difference that is reflected in the fact that in Canada mortgage debt accounts for just over 30 % of the value of homes, compared with 55 % in the U.S.

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The housing picture is likely to improve in 2018: Home prices are expected to climb, but not as fast More houses could be for sale toward the end of the year, giving home buyers a greater selection to choose from Homeowners will have more equity to borrow from Yet in other ways, 2018 might continue...

Because you are building equity faster, more of your money is tied up in a pool of savings that you can access only by selling the house or borrowing with a HELOC or home equity loan.

Multifamily Tax Items • Extends the 9percent LIHTC credit rate for allocations through the end of 2013; absent the credit fix, the LIHTC program would suffer a loss of equity investment for affordable housing projects • Extension through the end of 2013 of base housing allowance rules for affordable housing Also noteworthy are items that are not in H.R. 8, including an itemized deduction cap or a defined fast - track tax reform process.

«As active as the market is with the product that we have today, we are looking at the tip of the iceberg in terms of boomers hitting retirement age,» says Scott Stewart, a managing partner at Capitol Seniors Housing, a private equity - backed real estate acquisition, development and investment management firm based in Washington, D.C. «The fast - paced growth of that population in that sector is going to make today's discussion of overbuilding obsolete, because there just aren't enough places for everybody today,» he says.