Posts with tag strategic default

When Junaid Nazeer's wife, Neelofur, lost her job as a pathologist for a private medical lab her income plummeted from $400,000 to just about one-fifth of that. Now Neelofur is working through a fellowship to be a pathologist in a hospital environment. In November 2010, six months after she lost her job, the Chicago couple... Continue Reading »

Walking away from your mortgage has become a trend as more homeowners find themselves underwater -- that is, their home is worth less than their mortgage. But as Ann Brenoff explains, at our sister site, WalletPop.com, you need to know the consequences of strategically defaulting before making the leap. As home values... Continue Reading »

The growing popularity of strategic default can't be denied. Forty-eight percent of homeowners surveyed say they would consider a strategic default -- also known as walking away -- if their home were underwater, in the latest research done for RealtyTrac and Trulia. That's up from 41 percent in May. Yet the banks still... Continue Reading »

Now that the housing market is bottoming out in many areas of country and even showing some signs of recovery, is strategic default a passing phase or still worth considering? The San Francisco Federal Reserve concludes that the default point "depends on a borrower's expectations regarding future house price changes and... Continue Reading »

There's nothing like a housing crisis to inspire moral ambivalence. In a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, more than a third of respondents said walking away from a mortgage is acceptable in certain situations. While a solid majority (59 percent) believes that so-called "strategic defaults" are wrong, an... Continue Reading »