by Calculated Threat on 12/08/2024 08:21:00 AM
From CoreLogic: CoreLogic: US Owners See Fairness Features Drop by Extra Than 5 P.c in Q3
CoreLogic® … at this time launched the House owner Fairness Report (HER) for the third quarter of 2024. The report reveals that U.S. owners with mortgages (which account for roughly 62% of all properties) noticed dwelling fairness enhance by $425 billion for the reason that third quarter of 2023, a achieve of two.5% yr over yr, bringing the full web house owner fairness to over $17.5 trillion within the third quarter of 2024.
For the primary time for the reason that fourth quarter of 2022, the share of damaging fairness rose within the U.S. on a quarterly foundation. Simply in comparison with final quarter, the variety of residential properties that fell into damaging fairness elevated by 30,000 houses or 1.8%.
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“As home prices flattened in the third quarter, home equity gains also slowed, even declined in some regions of the country,” mentioned Dr. Selma Hepp, CoreLogic Chief Economist. “While home equity closely depends on home price changes, equity losses are also tied to natural disaster events since households can lose a lot of their equity following a catastrophe, particularly if not property insured. As a result, following Maui’s 2023 devastating wildfire, Hawaii now tops the list with largest decline in home equity.”
Within the third quarter of 2024, the full variety of mortgaged residential properties with damaging fairness elevated by 3.5% from the second quarter of 2024, to at the moment about 990,000 houses with damaging fairness, or 1.8% of all mortgaged properties. On a year-over-year foundation, damaging fairness declined by 3%, or about 30,000 fewer houses in damaging fairness from the third quarter of 2023.
This map from the report reveals the % of mortgaged houses with damaging fairness by state.