RIS Media

OCTOBER 5, 2021

released its latest Mortgage Monitor Report , exploring the relationship between equity positions and downstream foreclosure start rates and, ultimately, distressed liquidations. Whether that’s due to lack of understanding of their equity positions or the foreclosure process in general is unclear,” he added.

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Keeping Current Matters

JULY 28, 2021

million households lost their home to a foreclosure, short sale, or because they simply gave it back to the bank. Most of the 1.86M in forbearance have enough equity to sell their home. million homeowners currently in forbearance, 87% have at least 10% equity in their homes. Here are four reasons why that won’t happen.

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Short sale Equity Principal Mortgages 263

Keeping Current Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Short sale. But before you go down any of those paths, it’s worth seeing if you have enough equity in your home to sell it and protect your investment. Equity is the difference between what you owe on the home and its market value based on factors like price appreciation. Loan modification. Deed-in-lieu of foreclosure.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent housing bust, since so many homeowners had negative equity in their homes when house prices declined.

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Keeping Current Matters

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, today’s situation is different than the 2006-2008 housing crisis as many homeowners have tremendous amounts of equity in their homes. With enough equity, a homeowner has the option of selling their home, or tapping into their equity through a refinance, to help weather the economic shock. What are the experts saying?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

While this would be a hit to homeowner equity, only 1 to 2 percent more of homeowners would move into negative equity. Short sales are unlikely to reemerge unless there is a serious deterioration in borrowers’ ability to pay their mortgages. . There will be two key differences between 2023 and 2010.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

MARCH 7, 2024

During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent housing bust, since so many homeowners had negative equity in their homes when house prices declined. Mortgage debt is up $2.36

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

This will be especially true for lower-income households with FHA loans that started with very little equity to begin with due to the low-down payment requirement. Hubzu for Signature Seller Assisted Sale (SSAS), standard short sale, foreclosure and ultimately REO management and sales) that can perform well, no matter the volume.

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Realty Biz

AUGUST 4, 2020

What are my options when I have little or no equity? Gil, the better term for what you are referring to is “under-equitied” meaning having less than 20% home equity. When you’re selling, having equity needs to at least cover the costs associated with selling, including paying off the mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

A lot of mortgage debt went away due to foreclosures and short sales, bringing home prices way down. With all the nested equity built in, a foreclosure process at scale would have to occur in a deep job loss recession with loans done late in an economic expansion. Then, after all that, the great financial crisis happened.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

In fact, calculating mark-to-market CLTVs of homeowners in some form of mortgage postponement through February 2021, Black Knight estimated that 96% have at least 10% equity in their homes. For others, it should be adequate for properly selling through traditional real estate channels to avoid a default or short sale.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

DECEMBER 7, 2023

During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent housing bust, since so many homeowners had negative equity in their homes when house prices declined.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people purchase homes with the intent to build equity, though life happens and homeowners end up underwater, whether it is upside down or with negative equity. Winding up with Negative Equity With the change in the market, housing prices fall and rise. It is best to wait until you bring your equity into positive territory.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

After the housing bubble crashed, a lot of household debt got deleveraged through foreclosures, short sales and bankruptcies. Homeowners look great with their nested equity positions; with price gains over the last several years homeowners now have a lot of equity built in.

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CT Homes

MARCH 7, 2024

The Role of Equity Equity is the portion of your home that you truly “own” — the difference between your home’s market value and the outstanding balance of your mortgage. Until you’ve paid off the mortgage entirely, the lender holds an interest in your home.

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Purchase and sale agreement Mortgages Equity Short sale 78

Keeping Current Matters

MARCH 10, 2021

Looking back at the bubble years, house prices exceeded house-buying power in 2006, but today house-buying power is nearly twice as high as the median sale price nationally.”. People are equity rich, not tapped out. Many immediately withdrew their equity once it built up, and they learned their lesson in the process.

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Keeping Current Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2020

During the housing crash twelve years ago, many homeowners owned a house that was worth less than the mortgage they had on that home (called negative equity or being underwater ). Today, the vast majority of homeowners have significant equity in their homes. Most homeowners have substantial equity in their homes.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Without significant credit stress in the system, we can’t ever assume we will see inventory scale spikes where sellers will not be able to buy homes because of a foreclosure or short sale. We can believe in a forced equity seller premise, where someone loses their job and needs to sell their home to gain access to money.

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Realty Biz

JULY 19, 2022

Many of these will be new investors that don’t have experience with the pre-foreclosures, short sales, and foreclosures, that occurred during the Great Recession. If the house is worth less than the outstanding loan, the seller has options, but a straightforward pre-foreclosure sale is seldom one of the options.

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Realty Biz

AUGUST 6, 2021

As the market again plows bullishly upward into unaffordable home prices, the most likely cushion from a full market meltdown this time will be stricter bank loan regulations and homeowner equity. The housing bubble bust of 2008 resulted in almost 10 million Americans losing their homes to foreclosures and short sales.

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RIS Media

MARCH 25, 2021

When the housing bubble burst, roughly nine million families lost their homes to foreclosure or short sale between 2006 and 2014. According to the Federal Reserve, foreclosures during a time of high unemployment could depress prices, plunging homeowners across the country deeper into negative equity. in December 2019.

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HomeLight

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Short sales can provide an excellent opportunity for potential homebuyers to score a good deal. If you’re in the market to buy a short sale home, you’ll need to prepare for a lengthy closing process and steel yourself to jump through some hoops not generally associated with traditional sales. What is a short sale?

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HomeLight

JULY 31, 2022

Here are some options for pulling a successful sale, regardless of where you stand on your mortgage. Check your equity to get started. As a military member selling a house, the options available to you depend on your equity , which is the percent of your home that you own outright.

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Realty Biz

MAY 22, 2022

A Short History of ARMs. Adjustable-rate mortgages were a significant contributing factor to the Great Recession foreclosures and short sales. People that couldn’t pay their mortgages were losing their homes to foreclosure and short sales. Jump forward to today’s housing market.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 31, 2021

Let’s take a look at the most common foreclosure sales and how they work. Short sale. A short sale isn’t necessarily a foreclosure sale, but it’s common to see a short sale done to avoid foreclosure. A seller will usually have to prove financial hardship for the lender to agree to the sale.

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Real Trends

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Are we on the all-new crazy train, destined to crash off the cliff in a pile of short sales and foreclosures? Are distressed sales headed to your market? The headlines say that the influx of active listings will drive prices down, reduce the velocity of sales and, consequently, wreck the market. Is the bubble bursting?

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New Construction Equity Short sale Construction 105

First Team Real Estate

JANUARY 29, 2021

homeowners are more financially stable and have more equity in their homes. of all active mortgages are in active forbearance according to a report from Steven Thomas, and of those that are past due, 77% of homeowners have at least 20% equity in their homes, and 90% have at least 10% equity. Approximately 7.5% year-over-year!

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This idea is that American citizens who are financially sound, have great cash flow, a vast amount of nested equity built-in, and live in a nice home will all of a sudden sell their homes at a major discount to the market bid in an attempt to get out at any cost. Recently, I have noticed a few people bring up the notion of panic selling.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 30, 2020

And if you’re facing long-term financial struggles, rather than a short-term loss of income, then selling your home could be your best option because your mortgage isn’t going to magically disappear. If your sale proceeds won’t cut it, the next question is whether you could bring money to the table to cover those costs.

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Short sale Banks Equity Mortgages 104

HomeLight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

As fate would have it, right when you’re ready to start seriously searching for a home to buy, your dream house is listed for sale as a short sale. If you don’t know about short sale requirements for buyers, you might feel like you’re out of luck. What’s a short sale?

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Easy Agent Pro

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Overnight, real estate agents became “short sale experts” during a time when few even knew what the term meant. Brush up on the foreclosure and short sale process by taking the classes (it’s actually a one-day session you can do online” leading to NAR’s short sale and foreclosure designation.

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HomeLight

JUNE 16, 2023

When housing prices are especially strong, homeowners typically have lots of equity in their homes. Use your home’s equity If you already own a home, you may be able to use your home’s equity to secure a home equity loan or line of credit. after six months.

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Hard money loan Equity Finance Loans 81

HomeLight

JUNE 8, 2021

Here are a few options to avoid: Short sales. The main thing you need to know about short sales is that the “short” refers to money , not time. Selling short means that your lender has agreed to allow you to sell your home for less than you owe on it. FSBO (For Sale By Owner).

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RIS Media

MARCH 23, 2022

resulted in repayment plans, short sales, deed-in-lieus or other reasons. The takeaway: Walsh claims multiple factors contributed to this positive trend including “the availability of variable loss mitigation options, low unemployment that is now below 4.0%, strong wage growth, and rising home equity.”. The remaining 1.2%

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Lighter Side of Real Estate

APRIL 6, 2022

You will have less equity if the payments become too high to handle and you want or need to sell. If home values haven’t gone up, or have gone down, you could be stuck trying to pay a mortgage that stretches you each month, or facing a short sale or foreclosure if you can’t manage to pay it.

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RIS Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Approved for short sale : A term that indicates that a bank has approved a homeowner for a reduced listing price on a home, and said home is ready for resale. percent of the yearly loan amount, can be canceled in certain circumstances when the borrower reaches 20 percent equity. The fee, usually 0.3 – 1.5

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RIS Media

JANUARY 29, 2021

After a bankruptcy, foreclosure or short sale, a prospective homebuyer may have to wait a period of time before taking out a new prime mortgage. Lenders often grant mortgages to borrowers who fall short or who are marginal in one area but who are well qualified in other ways. An Alt-A loan may be available sooner.

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Debt-to-income ratio Mortgages Bankruptcy Loans 94