America’s car debt problem is getting worse, and even buyers with slow depreciating vehicles are hurting ...

The automotive industry is currently grappling with a hangover from the supply chain disruptions of the early 2020s. For a period, used vehicle valuations defied historical depreciation curves, ...

That does not mean the vehicles are submerged. In a sense, the drivers are. More than one in four trade-ins had negative equity in the third quarter of 2025, Edmunds reports. In auto industry parlance ...

In How to Trade In Your Car, I talked about a young couple who traded in their old car for something newer and bigger. In that scenario, their car was paid off, so it wasn’t a problem. The value of ...

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Cox Automotive spotted a steady start to the year on the credit front, despite some turbulence involving negative equity, down payments and contract terms. The January reading of the Dealertrack ...

A rise in negative equity and exposure to student debt are creating “pockets of vulnerability” for U.S. homeowners. That’s according to ICE Mortgage Technology‘s July 2025 Mortgage Monitor report ...