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March 6th, 2008

Fed: Home Equity Drops Below 50 Percent

Americans’ percentage of equity in their homes has fallen below 50 percent for the first time on record since 1945, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.

Homeowners’ percentage of equity slipped to a revised lower 49.6 percent in the second quarter of 2007, the central bank reported in its quarterly U.S. Flow of Funds Accounts, and declined further to 47.9 percent in the fourth quarter – the third straight quarter it was under 50 percent. That marks the first time homeowners’ debt on their houses exceeds their equity since the Fed started tracking the data in 1945. Read more



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