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  2. What is negative equity? A guide to underwater mortgages - AOL

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    For example, let’s say that your current mortgage loan balance is $360,000. But your home is only worth $300,000. In that case, you would have negative equity of $60,000.

  3. Underwater mortgage: What it is and what to do - AOL

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    It’s also known as having negative equity. For example, say Jane bought her home for $300,000, made a $30,000 down payment and borrowed $270,000. ... During the 2007-8 subprime mortgage crisis ...

  4. Negative equity - Wikipedia

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    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".

  5. Underwater Homes: Top 10 States With the Most Negative-Equity ...

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    CoreLogic released its report on underwater mortgages this month, revealing that the number of mortgages with negative equity nationwide declined from 25.2 percent of all mortgages at the end of ...

  6. Home equity data and statistics: Why they matter to ... - AOL

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    For example, if you had an outstanding loan balance of $250,000 and your home appraised for $235,000, you’d have negative equity. It’s not a great state to be in.

  7. Subprime mortgage crisis - Wikipedia

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    [73] [74] This major and unexpected decline in house prices means that many borrowers have zero or negative equity in their homes, meaning their homes were worth less than their mortgages. As of March 2008, an estimated 8.8 million borrowers – 10.8% of all homeowners – had negative equity in their homes, a number that is believed to have ...

  8. Subprime crisis background information - Wikipedia

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    To use a simplistic example, Company X used a $10 equity or capital base to borrow another $290 and invest the $300 amount in various assets, which have fallen 10% in value to $270. This firm was "leveraged" 30:1 ($300 assets / $10 equity = 30) and now has assets worth $270, liabilities of $290 and equity of negative $20. Such leverage ratios ...

  9. 2 Million Underwater Homeowners Rose From Negative Equity in ...

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    By Cory Hopkins Almost 2 million American homeowners were freed from negative equity in 2012, and the overall percentage of all homeowners with a mortgage in negative equity fell to 27.5 percent ...