Real Estate Marketing & Beyond

Is Selling Your Home if You Owe More Than it's Worth Worth It?

By Tammy Emineth | January 19, 2023

Housing, Mortgage

Mortgaged homes gain almost $3 trillion in equity in Q2

By Mike Wheatley | September 24, 2021

American homeowners with mortgages gained a combined $2.9 trillion in equity during the second quarter, up 29.3% from the same period one year ago. That amounts to an average equity gain of $51,500 per borrower over the last year, according to a report from CoreLogic this week. In its report, CoreLogic determines the amount of […]

US Real Estate, Zillow

Negative equity continues to dog real estate markets

By Mike Wheatley | March 8, 2017

There are fewer homeowners underwater on their mortgages, but more than half of those who remain underwater owe at least 20 percent more than their homes are worth

Zillow study shows homes in black neighborhoods are twice as likely to be underwater

By Mike Wheatley | January 12, 2017

A new study from Zillow has found that homeowners in predominantly black communities are almost twice as likely to be "underwater" on their mortgages

Featured News, Mortgage, Residential, US Real Estate

CoreLogic: Half a million homeowners regained equity in Q2

By Mike Wheatley | September 19, 2016

CoreLogic had some good news for the economy in its latest equity report, revealing that just over 548,000 homeowners regained equity in the last quarter.

FHFA’s New Principle Reduction Policy Is Too Little Too Late

By Allison Halliday | April 18, 2016

This was the view of the California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC) about the agencies new principle reduction policy. Kevin Stein, associate director at CRC said “Today’s announcement by FHFA that principle reduction loan modifications will be available on a limited basis for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (“GSE”) loans is the poster child for “way too […]

Mortgage, Real Estate, US Real Estate

Zillow: 6 million U.S. homes still have negative equity

By Mike Wheatley | March 16, 2016

Fewer homeowners were underwater as the negative equity rate fell to 13.1 percent in the United States, according to the fourth quarter Zillow Negative Equity Report.

Real Estate, US Real Estate

Number of Underwater Properties Significantly Down

By Allison Halliday | January 23, 2015

According to a recent report released by RealtyTrac, the end of last year saw 7,052,570 US residential properties with seriously underwater mortgages. This accounts for about 13% of all properties that are currently mortgaged. A mortgage that is in serious negative equity or underwater is where the total loan amount secured by the property is […]

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