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.»
Not exact matches
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.
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.
We lend against collateral, and your collateral mainly is
real estate, and
real estate is still so much a
negative equity that we're not going to lend.
Without recognizing the role of debt and taking into account the magnitude of
negative equity and earnings shortfalls, one can not see that what is preventing American industry from exporting more is the heavy debt overhead that diverts income to pay the Finance, Insurance and
Real Estate (FIRE) sector.
It is credit — that is, debt — that is supposed to pull
real estate out of its present
negative equity.
Asset - price inflation gives way to crashing prices and
negative equity for
real estate and for much financial debt leveraging as well.
Foreclosures are still throwing homes onto the market, pushing
real estate further into
negative equity territory while wealth concentrates at the top of the economic pyramid.
A quarter to a third of U.S.
real estate has fallen into
Negative Equity, so no banks will lend to them.
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.
Stan Humphries, Zillow's chief economist, appeared on Bloomberg's «Street Smart» to discuss the home value trends and
negative equity numbers from Zillow's second quarter
Real Estate Market Reports.
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.
One third of U.S.
real estate already is reported to have sunk into
negative equity, squeezing state and local tax collection, forcing a choice to be made between bankruptcy, debt default, or shifting the losses onto the shoulders of labor, off those of the wealthy creditor layer of the economy responsible for loading it down with debt.
This is preventing
real estate collateral from recovering, keeping the banks in
negative equity.
The Federal Reserve is pumping liquidity and reserves into the financial system to reduce interest rates, ostensibly to enable banks to «earn their way» out of
negative equity resulting from the bad loans made during the
real estate bubble.
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.
ii CoreLogic
Negative Equity Report September 12, 2012 http://www.corelogic.com/about-us/news/corelogic-reports-number-of-residential-properties-in-
negative-
equity-decreases-again-in-second-quarter-of-2012.aspx iii Realtor.com
Real Estate Trend Data August 2012.
The resulting economic shrinkage is leaving large swaths of
real estate with
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.
«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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Through Oct. 10,
equity REIT share prices posted a return of
negative 9.21 %, according to the National Association of
Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT).
Sometimes the perfect storm occurs and when it capsizes your boat, even when you have 50 %
equity and that
equity becomes
negative because
real estate values fall below the cost of acquiring and financing a property — by 50 % — you wind up having zero.
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.
About 17 percent of all homeowners are still «upside down» on their mortgages, according to the third - quarter
negative equity report from Zillow, the
real estate listing and analytics website.
ii CoreLogic
Negative Equity Report September 12, 2012 http://www.corelogic.com/about-us/news/corelogic-reports-number-of-residential-properties-in-
negative-
equity-decreases-again-in-second-quarter-of-2012.aspx iii Realtor.com
Real Estate Trend Data August 2012.