Wednesday, September 11, 2013

More Homeowners Have Enough Equity to Sell


RealtyTrac last week released its U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report for September 2013.

While 10.7 million residential homeowners nationwide owe at least 25 percent or more on their mortgages than their properties are worth, another 8.3 million homeowners are now only slightly underwater or slightly above water, putting them on track to have enough equity to sell sometime in the next 15 months without resorting to a short sale.

The 8.3 million include homeowners that have a loan-to-value (LTV) ratio from 90 to 110 percent, meaning they have between 10 percent positive equity and 10 percent negative equity. These homeowners represented 18 percent of all U.S. homeowners with a mortgage as of the beginning of September.

Read more at Florida Realtors 2013


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