Posts with tag underwater homes

By Les Christie @CNNMoney NEW YORK -- Despite rising home prices, more than 30 percent of borrowers, or close to 16 million homeowners, were underwater on their mortgage during the first quarter, according to Zillow. The percentage of borrowers who owed more on their home than it was worth increased to 31.4 percent... Continue Reading »

We've been hearing the drill for a while now: Home prices are down, having dropped 2.6 percent nationwide during the last three months of 2010. Foreclosures keep coming as if they were on an assembly line. In Phoenix, it is estimated that as many as 70 percent of homeowners are underwater on their loans. The story is not... Continue Reading »

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 »

Underwater mortgages are the bugaboo of troubled homeowners. The more underwater their homes are -- in other words, the more negative equity they hold in their homes -- the better the chances are that homeowners will lose them. Therefore it should come as good news that only 10.8 million homes, or 22.5 percent of all... Continue Reading »

Foreclosures in North Carolina are on pace to set a new record of 70,000-plus filings in 2010, eclipsing last year's record of 63,289. By the end of July there were already more than 40,000 filings, according to data analyzed by the North Carolina Justice Center. Foreclosure activity slowed a tad in 2009, after lenders... Continue Reading »