Home prices are falling, but that's not always a good thing. In some areas, it's causing mortgage balances to exceed the actual property value. Here are the 10 states with the highest percentage of ...

Homeowners who bought around the peak of the market are increasingly finding they owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth. The number of owners who are underwater is small but ...

According to real estate data firm Zillow, 23 percent of all single-family homes are saddled with mortgages worth more than the present value. Moody’s Economy.com offers a similar number; according to ...

The percentage of "seriously underwater" mortgages rose in the first quarter. In the US, 2.7% of homes carry a mortgage that's at least 25% more than the market value of the house. That's according to ...

Home values are likely to fall next year, and some recent buyers may find themselves in the predicament of being underwater on their mortgages. But experts say most homeowners probably don’t need to ...

ATTOM's Q3 2025 report shows that equity-rich homes dropped to a share of 46.1%, down from 47.4% in the second quarter, while seriously underwater homes rose to 2.8%. Despite a record median home ...

Roughly one in 37 homes are now considered seriously underwater in the US and that share is much higher across a swath of southern states, according to data out Thursday. Nationally, 2.7% of homes ...

According to a report released on May 9, 2024, the number of properties classified as seriously underwater is ticking up, with southern states bearing the brunt of the phenomenon. One in 37 homes with ...

Based on data from ATTOM's newly released first-quarter 2024 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, 45.8 percent of mortgaged residential properties in the United States were considered equity-rich in ...

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property data, and real estate analytics, today released its third quarter 2025 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, ...