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null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

That’s not really how mortgages work.

If your house is worth less than your mortgage the bank can’t just ask you to cough up. That’s absurd really.

It’s just that if you sell you can’t settle the mortgage with the proceeds.

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Negative equity is absolutely a thing - and if a property with a 900k loan drops to 650,000 for example, then banks consider it a risk

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- null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m not disputing either of those points.
  
  banks start wanting you to close the gap between what you owe them, and what they can get if they take the house in lieu of payment.
  
  This is absolutely false.
  
  Some loans, “margin” loans, do work how you say and the bank will make a “margin call” asking the borrower to repsy a lump sum to reinstate the margin. However, this type of loan is not generally used to buy residential property.
  
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