«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.
Not exact matches
Look for a return of «Jingle Mail» as
homeowner's who are
underwater, give up the
lost cause and send the house keys back to the mortgage holder.
As their homes
lost value, they
lost equity, with many
homeowners actually falling
underwater, meaning that they owed more on their mortgages than what their homes were currently worth.
The HARP Refinance program allows current
homeowners who've
lost value to refinance even if
underwater.
Available for
homeowners seeking loan modification, borrowers who are current but
underwater, those who have
lost their homes to foreclosure and households working toward homeownership.