Zillow: Many in area owe more than home is worth
Zillow: Many in area owe more than home is worth
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Home values in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties dropped by $7.3 billion in the first three months of 2009 and have lost $40 billion in the past year, according to online real estate evaluator Zillow.com.
The Seattle firm estimates that 35.4 percent of homeowners in the four-county area now owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.
That’s up from 33.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to Zillow.
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