Zillow.com conveyed a new high in negative equity: 28.4% of single family homes with mortgage. That’s the national average however numbers are far worse in some of the nation’s big metros.
Atlanta has a 55.7% negative equity rate; Denver has 41% and Chicago roughly 46%. This is on top of all the foreclosure hot spot such as Phoenix; where in close to three quarters of all borrowers are troubled.
Higher rates of negative equity are making a lot of latent vulnerability in the housing stock, where if the household then bump into some economic shock, like the loss of a job or divorce or death, then the household much more likely to go in foreclosure as to Zillow’s Stan Humphries.
So it just defines that higher rates of negative equity, we’re going to see increased rates of foreclosure for the next two to three years. Though higher rates of foreclosure put rising pressure on home process, creating then to drop further, which in turn planes even more borrowers distressed.
Humphries believes this is a bigger deal than the walk away concern that’s where borrowers see no chance of ever having equity in their homes, so they walk off rather than becoming permanent simulated-renters, responsible for the high cost of the home’s maintenance though reaping no equity benefit.
There are surely plenty of large metro markets as quoted previously, where negative equity is that high. What about mobility? As the economy get better and we look those jobs numbers increase, as we did last Friday, we have to think the fact that many people taking these jobs may be needed to move for the said jobs. Those same borrowers may not be able to get the loss on the home that’s needed to sell it. What is the destiny of the nation’s credit quality? It is already rough enough to obtain a good mortgage when you have good credit. Home buyer self-assurance and demand are the only solutions right now for the housing/foreclosure crisis. Miserably, we have either.
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