When it comes to finding a place to live, an urban setting at a fair price might be right up your alley.
Be sure to look beyond those low costs to see whether the real estate market in your chosen city is stable.
New data from GOBankingRates suggest that certain cities are particularly vulnerable based on their foreclosure and delinquency rates.
On top of the list is Newark, New Jersey, which also came in first with highest delinquency rate and highest homeowner vacancy rate.
Other Northeast cities to make the list include Baltimore; Bridgeport, Conn.; Hartford, Conn.; Philadelphia; and Syracuse, New York.
Midwestern cities were also prominent, including Chicago; Cleveland; Dayton, Ohio; Detroit; Toledo, Ohio; Akron, Ohio; Milwaukee; and Rockford, Joliet and Aurora, all in Illinois.
Southern cities also rounded out the top 40, including Birmingham, Alabama; Columbus, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; Memphis; Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; and Norfolk, Virginia, among others.
I often question media reporting since their opinions are biased and misleading purposely sometimes. But the statistics number is not polls of opinions, these statistics should be close to reality.
As the report shows, 32% of the Newark mortgages have a negative equity. Seems high taxes are killing some cities in New Jersey and Connecticut.
“ Newark, N.J.
Total number of homes underwater : 4,978
Percentage of homes with mortgage in negative equity : 32%
That chart stops at 2014. What happened after that?
NYC is the financial capital of the world. Haters gonna hate but it’s been doing great for the last 100+ years. It will continue to do great despite constant doom and gloom from conservative types.