Underwater Owners May Keep Walking Away

Housing economists are growing increasingly worried that home owners whose properties are underwater will stop trying to pay their mortgages and just walk away. In all, the total value of U.S. residential properties fell to $19.1 trillion in December 2008 from $21.5 trillion in December 2007. About 52 percent of Nevada mortgages are underwater, followed by 32 percent in Arizona and 30 percent in both Florida and California, according to researcher First American CoreLogic.

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