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Increasing Home Values Lift 1 Million Homes from 'Underwater' Status

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Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York experienced the largest declines in underwater homes during that period, reports National Mortgage News. On the flip side, “equity-rich” homes that have a value at least double the loan balance, increased by 4.2 There remain pockets of the country where housing debt-traps are widespread.

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Are There Lessons From the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Jeff Benach, co-principal at Lexington Homes, in Chicago, says his team regularly examines financial scenarios to forecast what the numbers could look like if sales declined by 10%, 20%, and so on. There have been four “official” recessions since 1980, and Jeff Benach, co-principal at Lexington Homes , in Chicago, has endured them all.