San Diego Ghost Equity – Homeowners Reality
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San Diego real estate: Why are many homeowners not selling? In my opinion, it’s because of ‘ghost equity!’ In 2005 their home may have sold for $700,000, but today the real market value could be $500,000. This lost $200,000 ‘ghost equity’ is something a number of homeowners cannot accept.
The San Diego homeowners do not want to face reality and accept a huge hit to their perceived equity. Even if they have positive equity in today’s market place, mentally they are resigned to staying put until their ‘ghost equity’ re-appears!
What some of the delusional homeowners may not realize is that unless their mind-set changes,and they give up the ghost, they may be living in their current home for many more years than originally expected.
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San Diego California Zillow First Quarter Real Estate Market Report
A just released Zillo report showed that home values continued to slide for the ninth consecutive quarter, declining 14.2 percent from a year ago, and falling 21.8 percent since the market peak in 2006. Additionally, one-fifth (21.9%) of all homeowners in the United States is in negative equity, and one in five homes sold in the past 12 months was a foreclosure.
The Zillo report also showed that there is a massive amount of "shadow inventory" waiting to come online. Specifically, 12% of homeowners say they're "very likely" to put their home on the market if there was evidence that the market was turning around. Another 8% were "likely" and another 12% were "somewhat likely". In short, there might be another ~20 million homes waiting in the wings to come onto the market as we see signs of a recovery. When asked what "sign of recovery" they needed, 71% said "increasing home sales in my neighborhood". That's a massive amount of potential new listings. San Diego real estate agents
San Diego Negative Home Equity
San Diego real estate mortgage bust. Much has been made of stated income, nina, ninja, etc. loans. The fact remains that the debt to income levels that were accepted during the boom time for people who could document their income exceeded 55%. Sub prime borrowers who could document their income could have DTI levels from 50-55%.
What is not talked about is that Fannie and Freddie loans could get approved with DTI levels as high as 63%. Typically a borrower would need some other strong factor such as high FICO or 6-8 months in reserve. Nevertheless, people are not walking from their homes just because they are upside down. Like most things in life there is rarely one answer, rather a multitude of factors.
Get ready for the next wave of foreclosures, just months away. This new wave of foreclosures will be prime mortgages on upper end homes. San Diego real estate agent