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Daily Real Estate News | June 8, 2010 | Study: Homeownership Rate Declines
Homeownership rates are down 2 percentage points from their 2006 peak, but could fall another 5 percentage points in the next couple of years, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The study subtracts the number of home owners who are underwater from the official homeownership rate calculated quarterly by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Officially, homeownership was 67.2 percent at the end of 2009, but the report says that effectively the rate is about 62 percent if those home owners likely to lose their homes are subtracted from the total.

Cities cited as having very low effective homeownership rates include Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Tampa, Detroit, and Washington, D.C.

Source: The Wall Street Journal, Nick Timiraos (06/07/2010)