{"id":1344,"date":"2018-11-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:21:08","slug":"equity-rich-properties-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Equity Rich Properties Represent 25.7 Percent of U.S. Properties;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Share of Seriously Underwater Properties Drops to 8.8 Percent;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Report Includes Home Equity Breakdown by Zip Code<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s4\">ATTOM Data Solutions<\/span><\/a>, curator of the nation\u2019s premier property database, released its Q3 2018 U.S. Home Equity &amp; Underwater Report, which shows that in the third quarter of 2018, nearly 14.5 million U.S. properties were equity rich \u2014 where the combined estimated amount of loans secured by the property was 50 percent or less of the property\u2019s estimated market value \u2014 up by more than 433,000 from a year ago to a new high as far back as data is available, Q4 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">The 14.5 million equity rich properties in Q3 2018 represented 25.7 percent of all properties with a mortgage, up from 24.9 percent in the previous quarter but down from 26.4 percent in Q3 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">The report also shows more than 4.9 million U.S. properties were seriously underwater \u2014 where the combined estimated balance of loans secured by the property was at least 25 percent higher than the property\u2019s estimated market value, representing 8.8 percent of all U.S. properties with a mortgage. That 8.8 percent share of seriously underwater homes was down from 9.3 percent in the previous quarter but still up from 8.7 percent in Q3 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cAs homeowners stay put longer, they continue to build more equity in their homes despite the recent slowing in rates of home price appreciation,\u201d said Daren Blomquist, senior vice president with ATTOM Data Solutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cWest coast markets along with New York have the highest share of equity rich homeowners while markets in the Mississippi Valley and Rust Belt continue to have stubbornly high rates of seriously underwater homeowners when it comes to home equity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/views\/Q32018HomeEquityHeatMap\/Dashboard1?:embed=y&amp;:display_count=yes&amp;publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q3 2018 U.S. Home Equity Heat Map<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s6\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Highest Seriously Underwater Share In Louisiana, Mississippi, Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">States with the highest share of seriously underwater properties were Louisiana (21.3 percent); Mississippi (16.2 percent); Iowa (15.5 percent); Arkansas (15.3 percent); and Illinois (15.1 percent).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Among 98 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed in the report, those with the highest share of seriously underwater properties were Baton Rouge, Louisiana (20.7 percent); Youngstown, Ohio (18.7 percent); New Orleans, Louisiana (18.6 percent); Scranton, Pennsylvania (18.3 percent); and Toledo, Ohio (17.7 percent)<\/span><span class=\"s3\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">26 Zip Codes Where More Than Half Of All Properties Are Seriously Underwater<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Among 7,290 U.S. zip codes with at least 2,500 properties with mortgages, there were 26 zip codes where more than half of all properties with a mortgage were seriously underwater, including zip codes in the Detroit, Milwaukee, Saint Louis, Atlantic City and Cleveland metropolitan statistical areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">The top five zip codes with the highest share of seriously underwater properties were 08611 in Trenton, New Jersey (71.0 percent seriously underwater); 63137 in Saint Louis, Missouri (66.5 percent); 60426 in Harvey, Illinois (64.2 percent); 38106 in Memphis, Tennessee (60.7 percent); and 44105 in Cleveland, Ohio (59.2 percent).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/views\/Q32018SeriouslyUnderwaterbyZip\/Dashboard1?:embed=y&amp;:display_count=yes&amp;publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q3 2018 Underwater Properties by Zip Code<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Highest Equity Rich Share In California, Hawaii, Washington, New York, Oregon<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">States with the highest share of equity rich properties were California (42.5 percent); Hawaii (39.4 percent); Washington (35.3 percent); New York (34.9 percent); and Oregon (33.6 percent).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Among 98 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed in the report, those with the highest share of equity rich properties were San Jose, California (73.9 percent); San Francisco, California (59.8 percent); Los Angeles, California (47.6 percent); Seattle, Washington (41.2 percent); and Honolulu, Hawaii (40.8 percent).<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">417 Zip Codes Where More Than Half Of All Properties Are Equity Rich<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Among 7,290 U.S. zip codes with at least 2,500 properties with mortgages, there were 417 zip codes where more than half of all properties with a mortgage were equity rich.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">The top five zip codes with the highest share of equity rich properties were all in the California Bay area: 94087 in Sunnyvale (87.1 percent equity rich); 94085 in Sunnyvale (86.7 percent equity rich); 94086 in Sunnyvale (86.7 percent equity rich); 94063 in Redwood City (85.9 percent equity rich); and 95130 in San Jose (85.7 percent equity rich)<\/span><span class=\"s3\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/views\/Q32018EquityRichbyZip\/Dashboard2?:embed=y&amp;:display_count=yes&amp;publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q3 2018 by Zip<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Report Methodology<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">The ATTOM Data Solutions U.S. <a href=\"seriously-underwater-u-s-properties-decrease-by-1-4-million-from-a-year-ago-in-q3-2017\/\">Home Equity &amp; Underwater<\/a> report provides counts of properties based on several categories of equity \u2014 or loan to value (LTV) \u2014 at the state, metro,&nbsp; county and zip code level, along with the percentage of total properties with a mortgage that each equity category represents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">The equity\/LTV is calculated based on record-level loan model estimating position and amount of loans secured by a property and a record-level <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/avm-property-valuations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s4\">automated valuation model (AVM)<\/span><\/a> derived from publicly recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/recorder-data\/\"><span class=\"s4\">mortgage and deed of trust data<\/span><\/a> collected and licensed by ATTOM Data Solutions nationwide for more than 155 million U.S. properties.<\/span><span class=\"s3\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Definitions<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\"><strong><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/one-in-10-us-properties-seriously-underwater-in-q2-2018-300694417.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seriously Underwater<\/a>: <\/i><\/strong>Loan to value ratio of 125 percent or above, meaning the property owner owed at least 25 percent more than the estimated market value of the property.<\/span><span class=\"s3\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\"><strong><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutmortgage.com\/are-you-equity-rich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Equity Rich<\/a>: <\/i><\/strong>Loan to value ratio of 50 percent or lower, meaning the property owner had at least 50 percent equity.<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-51701\" src=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/equity-rich-properties.png\" alt=\"equity rich properties\" width=\"398\" height=\"96\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s7\">About<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> ATTOM Data Solutions<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s8\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATTOM Data Solutions<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\"> provides premium property data to power products that improve transparency, innovation, efficiency and disruption in a data-driven economy. ATTOM multi-sources property tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, environmental risk, natural hazard, and neighborhood data for more than 155 million U.S. residential and commercial properties covering 99 percent of the nation\u2019s population. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">A rigorous data management process involving more than 20 steps validates, standardizes and enhances the data collected by ATTOM, assigning each property record with a persistent, unique ID \u2014 the ATTOM ID. The 9TB ATTOM Data Warehouse fuels innovation in many industries including mortgage, real estate, insurance, marketing, government and more through flexible data delivery solutions that include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/bulk-licensing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s4\">bulk file licenses<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s4\">APIs<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s8\">,<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/market-trends-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s4\">market trends<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/marketing-lists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s4\">marketing lists<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attomdata.com\/match-append\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s4\">match &amp; append<\/span><\/a> and more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018 Equity Rich Properties Represent 25.7 Percent of U.S. Properties; Share of Seriously Underwater Properties Drops to 8.8 Percent; Report Includes Home Equity Breakdown by Zip Code ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation\u2019s premier property database, released its Q3 2018 U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15802,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Among 98 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed in the report, those with the highest share of equity rich properties were San Jose, California (73.9 percent); San Francisco, California (59.8 percent\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Among 98 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed in the report, those with the highest share of equity rich properties were San Jose, California (73.9 percent); San Francisco, California (59.8 percent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"RealTrends - Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tracey Velt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@traceyveltFL\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tracey Velt\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tracey Velt\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c77c9a1ce6568611329a6cc5a1a64d7d\"},\"headline\":\"Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-08T08:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-13T02:21:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/\"},\"wordCount\":920,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Archive\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#respond\"]}],\"isAccessibleForFree\":\"False\",\"hasPart\":{\"@type\":\"WebPageElement\",\"isAccessibleForFree\":\"False\",\"cssSelector\":\".wp-block-housingwire-piano-member\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/\",\"name\":\"Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-08T08:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-13T02:21:08+00:00\",\"description\":\"Among 98 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed in the report, those with the highest share of equity rich properties were San Jose, California (73.9 percent); San Francisco, California (59.8 percent\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675,\"caption\":\"9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"RealTrends - Blog\",\"description\":\"Empowering Real Estate Decisions with Trusted Insights.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"RealTrends - Blog\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/cropped-RTV_Horizontal_logo_Blue.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/cropped-RTV_Horizontal_logo_Blue.png\",\"width\":2321,\"height\":227,\"caption\":\"RealTrends - Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c77c9a1ce6568611329a6cc5a1a64d7d\",\"name\":\"Tracey Velt\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/9b3cf1be6b1fb876ab0bd60ce0a485d0\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae51367450666ac65e816c5ed48f71a6aebe0ed43ea74c1f16500d37c0efc141?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae51367450666ac65e816c5ed48f71a6aebe0ed43ea74c1f16500d37c0efc141?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tracey Velt\"},\"description\":\"Tracey Velt is the Senior Director of Data &amp; Content. She is the host of the popular RealTrending podcast, manages content for the real estate team and The Gathering and leads editorial and sponsored research across the HW Media brands. Tracey has more than 25 years of experience writing and editing for the real estate industry and is the former editor in chief of Florida Realtor magazine. She resides in Florida.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/traceyvelt\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/traceyveltFL\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/author\/tvelt\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018","description":"Among 98 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed in the report, those with the highest share of equity rich properties were San Jose, California (73.9 percent); San Francisco, California (59.8 percent","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018","og_description":"Among 98 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed in the report, those with the highest share of equity rich properties were San Jose, California (73.9 percent); San Francisco, California (59.8 percent","og_url":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/","og_site_name":"RealTrends - Blog","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Tracey Velt","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@traceyveltFL","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tracey Velt","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/"},"author":{"name":"Tracey Velt","@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c77c9a1ce6568611329a6cc5a1a64d7d"},"headline":"Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018","datePublished":"2018-11-08T08:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-13T02:21:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/"},"wordCount":920,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png","articleSection":["Archive"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#respond"]}],"isAccessibleForFree":"False","hasPart":{"@type":"WebPageElement","isAccessibleForFree":"False","cssSelector":".wp-block-housingwire-piano-member"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/","url":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/","name":"Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png","datePublished":"2018-11-08T08:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-13T02:21:08+00:00","description":"Among 98 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed in the report, those with the highest share of equity rich properties were San Jose, California (73.9 percent); San Francisco, California (59.8 percent","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png","width":1200,"height":675,"caption":"9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/equity-rich-properties-increase\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Equity Rich U.S. Properties Increase to New High of 14.5 Million In Q3 2018"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/","name":"RealTrends - Blog","description":"Empowering Real Estate Decisions with Trusted Insights.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"RealTrends - Blog","url":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/cropped-RTV_Horizontal_logo_Blue.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/cropped-RTV_Horizontal_logo_Blue.png","width":2321,"height":227,"caption":"RealTrends - Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c77c9a1ce6568611329a6cc5a1a64d7d","name":"Tracey Velt","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/9b3cf1be6b1fb876ab0bd60ce0a485d0","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae51367450666ac65e816c5ed48f71a6aebe0ed43ea74c1f16500d37c0efc141?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ae51367450666ac65e816c5ed48f71a6aebe0ed43ea74c1f16500d37c0efc141?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tracey Velt"},"description":"Tracey Velt is the Senior Director of Data &amp; Content. She is the host of the popular RealTrending podcast, manages content for the real estate team and The Gathering and leads editorial and sponsored research across the HW Media brands. Tracey has more than 25 years of experience writing and editing for the real estate industry and is the former editor in chief of Florida Realtor magazine. She resides in Florida.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/traceyvelt\/","https:\/\/x.com\/traceyveltFL"],"url":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/author\/tvelt\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/9ced5ef4-69ab-4ba7-a7cd-ec49be7b274d.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6131,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/6131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}