Sentence examples for by negative equity from inspiring English sources

Mortgages are being refused, homes are facing repossession and some expats find themselves sucked under by negative equity.

Having a bigger deposit will mean that if prices drop slightly you will not be trapped in a property by negative equity.

Each time we see a house price fall, an awful lot of nonsense is talked about spikes in the number of people now affected by negative equity.

It will take years to find out if it really works but, meanwhile, I am introduced to 64-year-old Maggie Lowton, who was forced out of her home of 38 years by negative equity.

Younger borrowers are more likely to be affected by negative equity in part because they generally have been in their home for shorter periods of time and had less time to build equity before the housing debacle.

Now fast-forward five years to the great meltdown (U.K. version): banks collapsing, families asphyxiated by negative equity, Icelandic weirdness, the government to the rescue late in the day.

Beyond such glamour, the collapse of the property bubble has seen unemployment rise past 11percentnt, banks nationalised, the economy forecast to shrink by 8.3percentnegativetivequityty engulf great swathes of the population, the nation's international credit rating downgraded, economists warn of national bankruptcy, and taxes rising by €4,000 for the average family.

Of the 30 largest markets tracked by Zillow, negative equity fell the most from the first to the second quarter in the Phoenix metropolitan area (from nearly 56 percent to about 52 percent) and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area (from 46 percent to roughly 44 percent).

3.47pm GMT Negative equity by region The most recent figures appear to be in a report last summer from the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's, which is here.

Eric Weiss Jersey City, Feb. 3, 2010 To the Editor: Your article highlights both the risk of strategic default by borrowers with deep negative equity and the challenges in crafting an appropriate public policy response.

They showed negative equity by the end of the year, and in their first loss of profits in over ten years, resulted in a 28 percent decrease in income from the previous year.