Living beneath the waves has long captured the imagination of dreamers, designers and explorers, inspired by tales like Atlantis. Today, with rising sea levels and a growing curiosity about what lies ...

PHOENIX – With prices surging, the percentage of Arizona homes that are underwater has fallen dramatically since last year. Homes with mortgages worth more than their values fell to 24.7 percent in ...

Lafayette Parish had one of the lowest percentages in the state of homes classified as seriously underwater in the fourth quarter, national data shows. Lafayette Parish had only 7.5% of its homes ...

The recent CoreLogic Homeowner Equity Insights report for Q3 shows a continued positive trend of a lack of underwater mortgages in America today. Underwater mortgages — where borrowers owe more on ...

Homeowners witness significant equity surge of $1.3 trillion with Northeastern states making the biggest gains. CoreLogic found a 15% annual decrease in the number of underwater homes, marking an ...

Louisiana continues to have the highest share of properties listed as seriously underwater and lowest listed as equity-rich, data shows. The 10.5% of mortgaged residential properties in the state ...

One of the most alarming aspects of the housing bubble crash was the staggering number of Americans who were underwater on their homes. In 2010, CoreLogic’s national data in the fourth quarter ...

(Reuters) - You're underwater on your mortgage and falling behind on payments. You may lose your home. Can you negotiate with your lender to reduce your principal? Increasingly, the answer is yes, ...

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 ...