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Home Owners Stand to Recapture More Equity in 2014<\/h2>\n
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Home Owners Stand to Recapture More Equity in 2014. Image courtesy of Ambro \/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net<\/p><\/div>\n

The number of underwater homes continues to slip, with 791,000 properties regaining equity during the third quarter, CoreLogic reports.<\/p>\n

Currently, about 13 percent of all homes with a mortgage — or 6.4 million — remain in negative equity compared to 14.7 percent — or 7.2 million — at the end of the second quarter.<\/p>\n

An estimated 42.6 million homes in the U.S. have positive equity. About 20 percent– or 10 million — of those homes, however, have less than 20 percent of equity or what is considered \u201cunder-equitied,\u201d according to CoreLogic.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, about 1.5 million properties have less than 5 percent and are considered near-negative equity. They are the most at risk if prices happen to fall, CoreLogic reports.<\/p>\n

The following states have the highest levels of negative equity and account for 36.4 percent of all the negative equity in the country:<\/p>\n