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May 06, 2009

OUCH: 1 in 5 Americans Owe More on Mortgage than Home is Worth … Underwater Mortgages

Posted in: Economy,mortgage

From Yahoo Finance, home values continue to decline in the first quarter of 2009. More than in 5 Mortgage_Home_UnderwaterAmericans or 21.9 percent of all American homeowners have a negative equity and find themselves underwater.

Home values in the United States extended their fall in the first quarter, with more than one in five homeowners now owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, real estate website Zillow.com said on Wednesday.

U.S. home values posted a year-over-year decline of 14.2 percent to a Zillow Home Value Index of $182,378, resulting in a total 21.8 percent drop since the market peaked in 2006, according to Zillow’s first-quarter Real Estate Market Reports, which encompass 161 metropolitan areas and cover the value changes in all homes, not just homes that have recently sold.

U.S. homes lost $704 billion in value during the first quarter and have depreciated $3.8 trillion in the past 12 months, according to analysis of the reports.

Declining home values left 21.9 percent of all American homeowners with negative equity by the end of the first quarter,Zillow said.


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