Redfin

JULY 21, 2025

Potential for equity growth: Renovating a fixer-upper can boost home value over time. Financing: Loans for fixer-uppers can get a little more complicated than an average home loan. Real estate auctions are another way to find fixer-upper homes for sale. Customization: An outdated kitchen doesn’t have to be a deal breaker.

Renovation

Marco Santarelli

APRIL 27, 2025

Now, imagine you have the resources to just walk in, pick your spot, and pay for it right there and then, without needing a loan. My short answer? The financed offer comes with contingencies (like getting the loan approved, the house appraising high enough). You control your equity 100% from day one. The cash offer?

Finance

Redfin

JUNE 23, 2025

Many people searching for this topic want to know: What happens when you inherit a home that still has an outstanding loan? The short answer is that you typically become responsible for the mortgage payments, and you’ll need to decide whether to keep the home, sell it, or explore other options. Can you inherit a house with a mortgage?

Mortgages

Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2021

billion in potential home equity has been uncovered for distressed homeowners facing foreclosure. billion is the amount of surplus funds generated by foreclosure sales on the Auction.com platform between 2016 and 2020. Over the past five years, more than $1.2 What’s surprising is just how much surplus is being generated.

Equity

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Despite record-high home prices, home equity may not save some borrowers in forbearance from foreclosure, according to a Black Knight ’s report published Monday. Since 2010, around 10% of borrowers with more than 120 days in delinquency were referred to foreclosure, regardless of their equity.

Equity

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The share of loans with payments 90 days to 119 days late quadrupled between May and June, rising to 2.3%, the highest level in more than 21 years, said Frank Nothaft, CoreLogic’s chief economist. While they have permission to miss their payments, the mortgage industry still counts the loans as delinquent. Currently, about 3.6

Short sale

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The great promise of short sales and other distressed pre-foreclosure sales as a foreclosure alternative is most fully realized in a competitive and transparent online auction marketplace, according to recent data from the Auction.com Market Validation Program (MVP) for pre-foreclosure sales. More than 45% of the 1.7

Sales

Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

2021 was an extraordinary year for the housing market: mortgage rates at an all-time low, record high annual growth in single-family prices and rents, lowest foreclosure rates in a generation and the largest number of home sales in 15 years. for 30-year fixed-rate loans. 2022 should be a strong year for housing.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

Another 365 complaints were related to home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), while only 74 complaints were attributed to reverse mortgages. The next largest share within that segment was related to borrowers expressing frustration in communicating with a company to fix an issue in either the management or servicing of a loan.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans once again made up the smallest share at 2.05% ? while Ginnie Mae loans in forbearance fell 7 basis points to 5.15%. The percentage of loans in forbearance for depository servicers also dropped 3 basis points to 4.16%. resulted in a loan deferral/partial claim. Another 24.1%

Short sale

Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

The actions were taken against Pittsford, New York-based Sutherland Global and Landover, Maryland-based NOVAD Management Consulting , which together formed a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) servicing operation on behalf of the U.S. However, many borrowers could not get in contact with anyone at the loan servicing operation.

Loans

Keeping Current Matters

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yanling Mayer, Principal Economist at CoreLogic , recently revealed : “A distributional analysis of forborne loans’ payment status reveals that more than one third (39.1%) of all forborne loans are now 150+ days behind payment, while as many as 1-in-4 (25.5%) are 180+ days past due.”. Though 29.4% What are the experts saying?

Equity

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. Currently, the balance sheet of the U.S.

Short sale

Keeping Current Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Investopedia defines it like this: “ Foreclosure is the legal process by which a lender attempts to recover the amount owed on a defaulted loan by taking ownership of and selling the mortgaged property. Loan modification. Short sale. When prices rise , so does the amount of equity you have in your house.

Equity

Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

they may not be able to modify the loan, sell quickly or whatever else and thus end up foreclosed upon). 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. Second, ensure they are partnered with great vendors (i.e.,

Short sale

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.

Equity

Keeping Current Matters

MARCH 10, 2021

Recently, the Urban Institute released their latest Housing Credit Availability Index (HCAI) which “ measures the percentage of owner-occupied home purchase loans that are likely to default—that is, go unpaid for more than 90 days past their due date. People are equity rich, not tapped out. This is nothing like the last time.

Equity

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is why I am very mindful of recent 100% loans that some banks are offering. After the housing bubble crashed, a lot of household debt got deleveraged through foreclosures, short sales and bankruptcies. Also, homeowners have been living in their homes longer and longer, so their nested equity position has improved over time.

Bankruptcy

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?

Short sale

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

.” Getting ahead of this flawed premise, I wrote a series of articles that point out that this isn’t the credit bubble of 2002-2005, and the loans post-2010 were good. We have gone from near 5 million loans in forbearance to finally breaking under 1 million recently. America came back strong, and we left this crew in the dust.

Bankruptcy

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?

Short sale

HomeLight

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If a homeowner falls behind on their mortgage payments, a short sale is one potential way of correcting course. That being said, the home purchase process is a lot more complicated and drawn out with a short sale because it all hinges on the oversight and approval of a third party: the mortgage lender. Short sales 101.

Short sale

HomeLight

OCTOBER 11, 2021

You see a house you love, but the listing shows that it is an “active pending short sale.”. And just what is a short sale, anyway? Is a short sale home purchase for you? And can you still make an offer on an active pending short sale? Short sales defined . Wait, what?

Short sale

HomeLight

MARCH 30, 2021

You may have heard a little bit about short sales — enough to know that this type of real estate listing can present some opportunities to get a good deal. But while short sales offer potential opportunities , they come with plenty of potential pitfalls as well. Know if a short sale is the best option for you.

Short sale

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.

Equity

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.

Closing

RIS Media

MARCH 23, 2022

The total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 12 basis points, from 1.3% of servicers’ portfolio volume in the prior month to 1.18%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey, released last week. The share of other loans (e.g., resulted in a loan deferral/partial claim.

Loans

HomeLight

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Request an instant home value estimate to for a ballpark estimation of how much equity you have before selling a house with a mortgage. Stay in your house to build equity with a loan modification or forbearance. Stay in your house to build equity with a loan modification or forbearance.

Short sale

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. The “anyone can get one” loans of the past are illegal; now borrowers undergo stricter income, credit and asset checks. 3: Most Homeowner’s Cushion—Equity. in December 2019.

Marketing

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.

Short sale

Calculated Risk Real Estate

JUNE 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.

Closing

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.

Short sale

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. The seller has options as long as the house is worth more than the outstanding loan. The primary option when a house is worth less than the loan is a short sale.

Purchase and sale agreement

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.

Equity

Lighter Side of Real Estate

APRIL 6, 2022

To put it simply, they were risky mortgages given to people who probably weren’t going to be able to afford the loans they were taking on. So your rate isn’t fixed for the life of the loan. How much will that monthly savings amount to over the entire term of the loan? Find out when your rate can be adjusted.

Mortgages

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. Home Loan program.

VA loan

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.

Closing