Home Equity

Jillian Berman

Housing Bust May Curb Middle-Class Teens' Attendance At Top Colleges: Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Jillian Berman | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Housing Bust College Attendance, Video, Housing Market, Housing Bust, College Affordability, Housing Boom, College Attendance Rates, Business News, Home Equity, Housing Market Crash, Business News

For Marliza Melzer, the housing bust has meant the end of two American dreams. "My mortgage is underwater so I can’t pay for my son to go to col...

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They Can Take That Away From You!

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Attorneys, Ret, Homeowners, Refinancing, NY Real Estate, Real Estate, Home Equity, Home Foreclosure, New York News
Lita Smith-Mines

Sometimes the numbers make sense for a refinance, but it's rarely ever solely about numbers, and it's never a "no-brainer."

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U.S. Household Wealth Falls In Spring For First Time In Year

AP | By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve Report, US Wealth, Stock Portfolios, American Wealthy, American Stock Portfoli, Home Equity, Household Wealth, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Americans' wealth fell this spring for the first time in a year. Falling stocks and investments made many slightly poorer, a trend that ...

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Sub-Prime Mortgages and Harry the Snake

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Richard Dreyfuss, Balloon Mortgage, Home Sales, Bank of America, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Mortgages, Subprime Mortgages, Bailout, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Default Mortgage, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosures, Home Equity, Business News
Bernard Starr

"Tin men," as we shall soon see, played a major role in the sub-prime mortgage debacle. First, the back story.

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Negative Equity Soars, 27 Percent Of Mortgage Borrowers Owe More Than Their Home Is Worth

CNBC | Diana Olick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, Foreclosure Mess, Foreclosures, Home Equity, Housing Crisis, Negative Home Equity, Zillow Report, Business News

The number of borrowers who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth took a huge leap in the fourth quarter of 2010. A full 27 percent o...

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William Alden

Cautious Homeowners Not Seduced By Record-Low Interest Rates

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Mortgages, FICO Score, Freddie Mac, Fed, Mortgage Crisis, Federal Reserve, Refinancing, Ben Bernanke, David Rosenberg, Home Equity, Business News

There's very little anyone can do to convince Americans to take out a mortgage. Mortgage interest rates are lower than they've been in at least 40 ye...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Housing Woes To Continue, More Losses Coming

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patrick-Newport, Mortgage Walk Away, Ihs-Global-Insight, Jamie Dimon, Home Equity, Mortgage Crisis, Bank Losses, Mortgages, Foreclosure Crisis, Homeownership, First American CoreLogic, JPMorgan Chase, Underwater, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Strategic Defaults, Subprime, Realtytrac, Business News

The nation's second-largest bank expects the number of delinquent home loans to skyrocket over the next year, echoing analysts' expectations of a gloo...

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What Recession? Full Spend Ahead!

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Consumerism, Lawyers, Home-Equity, Economy, Financial Crisis, Recession, Personal Finance, Refinancing, Healthy Living News
Lita Smith-Mines

As the ability to charge-now, refinance-later vanished when most homeowners' equity evaporated, I hoped the chronic consumer had also become extinct.

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U.S. Home Equity Down To About 20%

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Home Equity Down, Home Equity, U.S. Home Equity, Business News

Blogger CalculatedRisk took a look at the Federal Reserve's latest estimate of the equity Americans have in their homes and found it overly optimistic...

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