But as most debts are denominated in euros — and owed mainly to foreign banks or their local branches — devaluation would cause a sharp jump in debt service, causing even more defaults and
negative equity in real estate.
Not exact matches
And The New York Times yesterday pointed out that all of the $ 31.5 billion
in new aid is not going to be spent on the Greek people any more than the American QE3 is spent here; it's going to be given to the Greek banks to help pull them out of their
negative equity and all of their bad
real estate mortgages.
So when the Federal Reserve provides more liquidity to the banks, they are not going to lend to
real estate that already has one - third of homes
in negative equity.
But banks are not lending more, for the simple reason that a third of U.S.
real estate already is
in negative equity, while small and medium - sized businesses (which have created most of the new jobs
in America for the past few decades) have seen their preferred collateral (
real estate and sales orders) shrink.
This is preventing
real estate collateral from recovering, keeping the banks
in negative equity.
But with much of US
real estate already
in negative equity, banks are not going to start lending again on a large scale.
Now that rentier property ownership is developing
in many ways like the West, the task of the coming generation is to make sure that China remains free of the
real estate and financial bubble that has left entire Western economies
in debt peonage and
negative equity.
The actual
real estate market is much worse even than the present price statistics show, because many people are frozen
in with
negative equity.
But a quarter of U.S.
real estate already is
in negative equity — worth less than the mortgages attached to it — and the property market is still shrinking, so banks are not lending except with public Federal Housing Administration guarantees to cover whatever losses they may suffer.
May's edition looks at — amongst other things — strong performance from global
equities (even stronger from EM), the Russia stand - off, good data from the US, the
negative spiral
in China's
real estate market and European monetary policy.
Even
in the presence of falling home prices, the accumulation of
negative real estate equity and high levels of unemployment, consumers still have been placing a premium on paying off their credit card obligations and maintaining the health of their card relationships.»
«The percent of American single - family homes with mortgages
in negative equity (1) fell to 21 percent
in the third quarter, down from 23 percent
in the second, as home values stabilized
in the short term and more underwater homeowners lost their homes to foreclosure, according to the third quarter Zillow
Real Estate Market Reports.
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Zillow, the online
real estate marketplace and research site, reported last week that more than 1 owner
in 10
in the United States continues to have
negative equity, but that figure has plunged by nearly two - thirds during the past 48 months as the economy has strengthened.