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Why Aren't There More Homes for Sale?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Economists at CoreLogic have new evidence showing how big price declines are keeping many home sellers on the sidelines. They found that the supply of homes for sale declines as the rate of negative equity — or the share of borrowers who owe more than ...
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Money Pros: Pay off credit cards first, before tackling a home equity loan
New York Daily News
I also have a home equity loan of just below $12000 with an APR of 4.75%. It has three and a half years left on it. My payment for that loan is $300 a month. What do you suggest I use my money for? Do I pay down, or off, the credit cards, ...
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New York Daily News
New Reverse Mortgage Products, New "Gatekeepers"
Reverse Mortgage Daily
Despite efforts by originators to incorporate new reverse mortgage products into their sales repertoire, the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) Standard continues to maintain a stronghold on the market. For lenders who have started to see success ...
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Omers acquires UK care group Lifeways
Financial Times
Omers, which invests Ontario's municipal employees' retirement pot, is to pay £207m for Lifeways, which focuses on supporting people with special needs in their own homes rather than in care accommodation. Private equity's involvement in the care ...
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Florida among states hardest hit by drop in net worth
WPTV
Net worth is the value of assets like homes, bank accounts and stocks, minus debts like mortgages and credit cards. Among families that owned homes, the Fed survey found that their median home equity declined from $95300 in 2007 to $55000 in 2010, ...
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WPTV
American family net worth hits lowest level in 20 years
Human Events
A great deal of this is attributed to the collapse of the housing market, which wiped out 42.3 percent of home equity between 2007 and 2010. On the other hand, only 69 percent of Americans owned homes at the peak of the housing market in 2004.
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Human Events
Fed reports how much recession shrank US wealth
The Associated Press
The latest survey showed Monday that much of the drop in net worth from 2007 to 2010 reflected the collapse of the housing market, which drove down home values. Among families that owned homes, the Fed survey found that their median home equity ...
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Underwater Loans Limit Housing Supply
MortgageLoan.com
The reason? Homeowners who otherwise would be looking to move up are unable to sell their current homes because they're trapped by negative equity. The result is fewer homes coming onto the market and a dwindling inventory of properties for sale.
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Best-Ball tournament crowns new champions
Calgary Herald
Darcy Boudreau and Joe Dotto certainly didn't mind the howling conditions as they combined for an eight-under-par 62 on their home course of Woodside to overcome a four-stroke deficit and win the Richmond Equity Best Ball in just their second try.
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7 Reasons to Buy vs 7 Reasons to Rent
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
Is it better to buy a home or rent? The "right" answer for you depends entirely on your individual circumstances. That being said, here are 7 reasons to buy vs. 7 reasons to rent that will help you think through the situation. 1. The home's "equity" ...
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Net worth tanked to '92 level
Investor's Business Daily
Home-owning families saw their median home equity sink 32% to $75000. Median family income fell 7.7% to $45800 in that time, after holding steady in the prior 3 years. Nearly 75% of families had some kind of debt in 2010, down from 77%, but the median ...
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Home Refinancing Boosts Florida, Nevada: Economy
Bloomberg
"This is going to be a big plus for stressed homeowners in very stressed markets with negative equity." Reports today showed the global economy is slowing as Europe deals with is debt crisis. French factory output dropped in April and Italy's economy ...
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Home of Music Other Industry Intelligence Inc. Offers Morningstar痴 ...
Melodika.net (press release)
Industry Intelligence Inc., a market intelligence and information management company serving the forest products, packaging and food and beverage industries, has expanded its i2dashboard services to include the independent equity research from ...
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Why So Few Homes Are on the Market
BusinessWeek
In a new report, the housing data firm CoreLogic says inventory is low because so many homeowners have negative equity—they owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, so selling would not give them enough money to pay off their loans.
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Chinese developer Greentown soars 36 pct on Wharf stake
Reuters
Still, the stake sale to Wharf is unusual, with most developers preferring to acquire projects rather than equity stakes in Chinese home builders. "Usually they don't want to take a stake in a company because it's more complicated and more risky," CLSA ...
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Blakeman: Obama to Blame For Americans' 39 % Drop in Wealth
NewsMax.com
Among families that owned homes, the Fed survey found that their median home equity declined from $95300 in 2007 to $55000 in 2010, a drop of 42.3 percent. The Fed survey found that median incomes also fell from $49600 in 2007 to $45800 in 2010, ...
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Where Wealth Declined Most (and an Income Riddle)
New York Times (blog)
As I wrote in my article about the new data, the middle class puts wealth in housing, and the median amount of home equity dropped to $75000 in 2010 from $110000 in 2007. While other investments have recovered much of the value lost in the depths of ...
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New York Times (blog)
Street One ETF Weekly Outlook and Review
ETF Trends
For the first time in recent recollection we were able to go home this weekend and say that equity indices closed at their "highs for the week," as the SPX logged a gain of 0.81% last Friday to close soundly above its 200 day moving average, ...
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ETF Trends
Are You A Single Home Buyer?
Bahamas Tribune
When you upgrade, your first home can provide you with equity to purchase your next home. Alternately, you might purchase a home which can be added to at a later time. Location, that golden rule of real estate, applies to single home purchasers as well ...
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Family Net Worth Fell Almost 40% Between 2007-2010
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Among families that owned homes, their median home equity declined to $75000 in 2010, down from $110000 three years earlier. Between 2007 and 2010, incomes also dropped sharply. In 2010, median family income fell to $45800 from $49600 in 2007, ...
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Apax spends $1bn for oil software company Paradigm
Telegraph.co.uk
The private equity firm has increasingly looked outside of Europe for deals, focussing on the US and emerging markets as the euro crisis has wrought havoc on businesses at home. Paradigm is the latest US focussed deal following medical devices company ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
China's Li Ning falls 4.6 pct after profit warning
Reuters
| HONG KONG, June 12 (Reuters) - Shares of private equity-backed Chinese sportswear brand Li Ning Co Ltd are set to open 4.6 percent lower on Tuesday after the home-grown sports brand warned of a "substantial decline" in profit for 2012.
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Dealing with Negative Equity – What to do?
HIP-Consultant.co.uk (blog)
This is coupled with the fact that many current homeowners obtained a 95% or even as much as a 105% mortgage to buy their homes. Others have taken out secured loans on top of their mortgages. First of all, what is negative equity?
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Investment View: ENRC is a blue chip company – but just for gamblers
The Independent
Sometimes they were picked off by carnivores closer to home in the form of consortia of private equity firms which used mountains of debt to take their prey private. One thing commentators all agreed: the deals were passed through by the big City ...
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MVC Capital Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 Results
TheStreet.com (press release)
By Business Wire 06/11/12 - 08:45 AM EDT MVC Capital, Inc. (NYSE: MVC), a publicly traded business development company that makes private equity and debt investments, today announced its financial results for the second fiscal quarter ended April 30, ...
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CoreLogic® Releases June MarketPulse Report
Sacramento Bee
Months' supply of unsold homes fell to just more than six months in April 2012 and is currently at the lowest level in more than five years. As the flow of REOs has slowed over the last 18 months, negative equity has become a positive force in real ...
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Rising housing demand despite some buyer pools drying up
AGBeat
But with more than 20 percent of homeowners underwater, another 25 percent of all homeowners possessing less than 20 percent equity in their homes, and tightened underwriting requirement, this potential pool of buyers has effectively been eliminated.
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Fewer problem homes on the market
Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog)
Also, the Dallas area in April had one of the lowest percentages of negative equity homes – 12.1 percent. Only four US markets have lower negative home equity shares. In 2009, 30 percent of Dallas-area homeowners with mortgages owed more than their ...
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Los Angeles: There Is A Shortage Of Homes And It's Leading To Fierce Competition
Business Insider
Many people who bought at the top of the cycle are so deeply underwater, they can't get the price they need to sell and are therefore not bothering to put their homes on the market. "We know negative equity holds back home sales, but it also holds back ...
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William Lyon Homes Announces a New Single-Family Detached Home Neighborhood ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Learn more by visiting www.lyonhomes.com for updated information on William Lyon Homes' new neighborhoods. The Resmark Companies is William Lyon Homes' partner in developing The Branches. Founded in 1995, Resmark is a leading national private equity ...
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Equity release 'can lead to better quality of life'
Key Retirement Solutions
However, it was noted by the news provider that it is a huge decision to make regarding whether or not equity release is the right path to go down, as it is a choice that can only be made once. "A person's home is often their largest and most valuable ...
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Blogs5 new results for home equity
 
CoreLogic: Negative equity props up home prices in toughest markets
By Newswires
Negative equity is typically a demand-side obstacle to sales and refinances, but currently is also restricting the supply of homes for sale, Khater said. ...
The Wall Street Examiner
Obama's early Chicago rise brought African-Americans foreclosures
By BeeSting
By 2012, the average home equity in Chicago's African-American neighborhoods had shriveled to $6800, according to a March report from the Woodstock Institute, a liberal Chicago housing advocacy group. The average equity in homes in ...
Americans Stand with Israel
The Median Net Worth Plummets To Early 1990s Levels | Financial ...
By Financial Samurai
What is surprising is that the median amount of home equity dropped to $75000 in 2010 from $110000 in 2007. In other words, the median person has 87%-97% of their entire net worth tied up in property! This is a recipe for disaster. One of my ...
Financial Samurai
US DATA: Details are released for Fed's Survey of…. | ForexLive
By Market News International
38.8 percent from $126400 in 2007 to $77300 in 2010, and home equity fell. This is about as expected given the dismal economy (recession ran from Dec'07-June'09). See MNI Main wire. Share and Enjoy: RSS · Facebook · Twitter · LinkedIn ...
ForexLive
Family wealth falls to levels of early 1990s - LA Biz Observed
By Mark Lacter
One reason for this disproportion is that the middle class puts its wealth in housing, and the median amount of home equity dropped to $75000 in 2010 from $110000 in 2007. While other investments have recovered much of the value lost in ...
LA Biz Observed

Web9 new results for home equity
 
Second Mortgage or Home Equity Loan: What You Need to Know ...
Even though many lenders use these terms interchangeably you need to know the difference and to apply for the best type of loan to meet your needs.
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Question Regarding Home Equity Loans? - Yahoo! Answers
What is the point in the bank giving out a home equity loan? If the borrower has ... During the 'property boom' house prices were going up all the time .. So the 'risk' ...
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Home Equity Line Of Credit
Take advantage of our 2.99% APR Home Equity Line of Credit for the first 12 months! Embrace the security of extra funds as you need them without using high ...
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First Person: The Hidden Truth About Home Equity Loans - Yahoo ...
From Yahoo! Finance: COMMENTARY | I know you've seen the ads on television touting how easy it is to get a home equity loan; we all have. If just a few ...
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Home Equity Specials | West Aircomm
TWO GREAT HOME EQUITY LOAN SPECIALS FOR 2012. Payoff Your First Mortgage With a 10-Year Fixed Rate Home Equity Refinance Loan at 3.45% APR ...
https://www.westaircomm.com/home-equity-specials
First U.S. - Home Equity Improvement Loans
Versatile and flexible, a First U.S. Home Equity Line of Credit can help you fund a myriad of situations with the advantage of low payments and tax-deductible ...
https://www.firstus.org/products_services/homeequity.asp
Use A Mortgage Calculator To Guide Your Home Equity Loan ...
Use a residence equity mortgage calculator to see what releasing various percentages of your equity makes to the payments necessary. The mortgage ...
www.yapperz.com/.../use-a-mortgage-calculator-to-guide-you...
Home equity loan defaults soar | Philadelphia Mortgage Stars
Filed under: Home EquityNEW YORK (Fortune) -- One of the last sources of ready cash for homeowners looking to get money from their house appears to be ...
philadelphiarefinancehelp.com/home-equity-loan-defaults-soa...
Home Equity Processor/Team Leader at generations federal credit ...
generations federal credit union is hiring! View and apply for the Home Equity Processor/Team Leader Job at generations federal credit union in San Antonio, ...
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