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If a person owes more on a car than it’s worth, they have negative equity or are considered underwater on their auto loan. Equity for vehicles equals trade-in value minus the loan balance. Let ...
The share of trade-ins with "negative equity" — meaning the owner owes much more on their loan than their car is worth — was hovering at about 25% at the end of 2024, according to data from ...
Nearly one-third of auto loans have negative equity, a recent survey found. That means the loan balance is more than the car is worth. In lending-industry parlance, the loan is underwater.
Negative equity is a deficit of owner's equity, occurring when the value of an asset used to secure a loan is less than the outstanding balance on the loan. [1] In the United States, assets (particularly real estate, whose loans are mortgages) with negative equity are often referred to as being "underwater", and loans and borrowers with negative equity are said to be "upside down".
The most common type of Trade-In Protection (or TIP) occurs at the dealership level, at the vehicle-buying transaction. Dealers either give away the entire TIP protection (up to $5000 in negative equity benefit), or give away a portion while leaving the balance to be purchased by the consumer ($2500 give away, $2500 for sale).
For instance, by 2014 the average length of a new auto loan had reached 66 months, and the average amount financed for a new vehicle is $27,612, up $964 from 2013. [4] The longer the term of a loan and the higher the amount financed, the more likely it is that a borrower will be in a negative-equity, or “upside-down,” situation.
This 36-year-old is paying off a $66K loan on a $49K Ford Explorer after a trade-in — Americans are getting run over with negative equity due to long-term car loans and high interest rates
Due to the sharp decline in value immediately following purchase, there is generally a period in which the amount owed on the car loan exceeds the value of the vehicle, which is called "upside-down" or negative equity. Thus, if the vehicle is damaged beyond economical repair at this point, the owner will still owe potentially thousands of ...