Where Home Equity is Evaporating the Quickest (Map)
Forbes has compiled a list of 11 real estate markets with home values which are still declining quickly. Here is how they determined these areas:
Using data from Moody's Economy.com and Equifax, we measured the percentage of home equity--or the amount invested in the home, plus or minus any price appreciation or depreciation--relative to the home's current value in the country's 200 largest metropolitan statistical areas. We ranked metros based on data from the first quarter of this year. We also included numbers from 2006 and 2008 for reference.
Here are the markets:
- Modesto, CA
- Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
- Phoenix-Mesa-Glenda, AZ
- Las Vegas-Paradise, NV
- Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA
- Stockton, CA
- Merced, CA
- Reno-Sparks, NV
- Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario, CA
- Anchorage, AK
- Bremerton-Silverdale, WA
Top Ten Mortgage Fraud States (Map)
CNNMoney.com reports that the Mortgage Asset Research Institute (MARI) has released a report which shows incidents of fraud comitted by mortgage industry professionals had increased by 7% in 2009.
The jump in mortgage fraud is a troubling trend, given that it played a big role in setting the housing crisis in motion, with mortgage professionals doing things like listing false income claims for borrowers, and overstating a home's appraised value.
And the statistics may not capture the entire picture, according to Jennifer Butts of LexisNexis Mortgage Asset Research, since fraud isn't usually detected until a loan goes bad.
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10 Top Mortgage Fraud States [CNNMoney.com]
The Evolution of the American Household (Infograph)
I'm not a regular reader of Women's Day (I swear!), but they have a really great infograph showing the evolution of the american household through they decades. Check it out:
Indications of the Real Estate Recovery [InfoMap]
For all of us visual learners, here is a beautiful map showing recent national real estate sales trends:
Mint Map: Housing Sales [MintLife Blog]







