Negative equity picture improves

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:40 p.m. November 29, 2011
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Roughly 44% of all outstanding mortgage loans in Florida are “underwater” -- that is, roughly 1.9 million of the 4.3 million Floridians with a mortgage owe more than the value of their homes, and are in negative equity.

 

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