Sentences with phrase «equity in the housing crisis»

Fannie Mae introduced the DU Refinance Plus program in 2009 in an effort to extend refinancing relief to borrowers that lost their home equity in the housing crisis.

Not exact matches

The relationship between homeownership and wealth held true even in the years surrounding the mortgage crisis, which wiped out trillions of dollars in home equity and caused over 4 million Americans to lose their homes, researchers for Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found.

America's housing crisis generated nearly 4 million foreclosures and devastated residential equity for more than six years, but it also created a powerful new positive force in the nation's residential real estate economy.

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Consider a family living hand to mouth; they might have equity in the house or the car, but a home disaster (e.g. a burst pipe) could trigger a cash flow crisis and a divorce.

Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on October 23, 2008, while the crisis was happening in real time, Greenspan was forced to admit he was wrong: «Those of us who have looked to the self - interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders» equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief.»

While it's true that FHA borrowers generally have less invested in their homes due to low down payments, the housing crisis has seen home values in some areas tumble to the extent that conventional borrowers who started off with 20 percent home equity have seen it disappear.

While government programs temporarily made refinancing available to some home owners with little or no equity in their homes (due to the collapse in home prices following the housing crisis), generally you are going to need a solid amount of equity in your home in order to qualify for refinancing.

Like the houses in Atlanta that Donna and I are buying, prices of EM equities rose to lofty levels in 2008 before the global financial crisis, fueled by overly optimistic buyers extrapolating past price gains.

Getting an equity loan with bad credit is quite tough especially if the mortgage and housing markets are in a crisis.

The housing crisis in late 2007 led to millions of homes losing value and borrowers losing equity and having their home underwater.

The fall in home prices during the housing crisis left many homeowners in a negative equity situation (where their home was worth less than the mortgage on the property).

Due to lackluster home price recovery since the housing crisis, the negative equity rate in Irma's disaster area is nearly twice the national average.»

In the housing market crisis, lots of homeowners have lost their home equity and have little means for down payments as a result.

The Obama administration realized that with the decrease in home values due to the mortgage crisis and the economy, many homeowners do not have sufficient equity built up in their homes to traditionally refinance or restructure their mortgages to their advantage, despite the drop in interest rates that is prevalent right now in the housing market.

Millions of homeowners lost equity during the housing crisis that began in late 2007.

This defensive posture has actually served it well, in terms of surviving the housing / credit crisis — but now leaves shareholders with a fairly meagre return on equity (4.3 % in the year ending Apr - 2013).

«Despite this upward trend over the past five years, the massive loss of home equity during the housing crisis forced many homeowners to stay in their homes longer before selling, effectively disrupting the historical domino effect of move - up buyers that feeds both demand for new homes and supply of inventory for first - time homebuyers,» Blomquist says.

«Given the continued poor outlook for Florida retail in the face of the housing crisis, which has hit that state hard, we remain very cautious on shares of Equity,» he wrote last month in a note.

«This recent rise in HELOC originations indicates that an increasing number of homeowners are gaining confidence in the strength of the housing recovery and, more importantly, have regained much of their home equity lost during the housing crisis,» said Daren Blomquist.