The article basically reads “more people who own homes have less than 50% equity”, which I felt was like “no kidding, really?”. What I found was missing was, what total percentage of home owners of the entire U.S. owners are less than 50% equity. That’s what I was curious, but never found. I mean, if the change was from 20% of all u.s. home owners to say 21%, I wouldn’t consider this significant. If however, this changed from 20% to say 60%, well yes that would be significant.
I thought that was exactly what the article was saying. That of ALL US homeowners (not just buyers during this boom), if you take their % equity, then the average would be less than 50%.
