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BBC NEWS | Business | America’s house price time bomb
Ms Trainer says she feels no moral obligation to go on paying a loan on a property that is going to go on losing her money. She says her friends support her decision.

“I think people are taking a more cold-hearted look at it,” she says.

“Is the bank going to pay for my retirement because I was a good girl and paid my mortgage, even though legally I didn’t have to?”

Professor Wachter believes that, to date, most people have had their homes repossessed because they could not manage the repayments.

The trend of people now positively choosing to walk away because it makes financial sense to do so is a worrying new development.

“The dangers are extraordinary,” Professor Wachter says.

“If all that is needed is that the house value is less than the mortgage value, there is a large number of homeowners in the United States who are in that situation”.