Mortgage, home-equity woes linger

MortgageBy Conor Dougherty | The Wall Street

Nearly 10 million U.S. households remain stuck in homes worth less than their mortgage and a similar number have so little equity they can’t meet the expenses of selling a home, trends that help explain recent sluggishness in the housing recovery.

At the end of the first quarter, some 18.8% of U.S. homeowners with a mortgage—9.7 million households—were “underwater” on their mortgage, according to a report scheduled for release Tuesday by real-estate information site Zillow Inc. Z -1.38% While that is an improvement from 19.4% at the end of last year and a peak of 31.4% 2012, those figures understate the problem.

 

 

 

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