negative equity

英 [ˌneɡətɪv ˈekwəti]

美 [ˌneɡətɪv ˈekwəti]

n.  资产负值， 负资产 (资产值低于抵押款)

牛津词典

noun

• 资产负值， 负资产 （资产值低于抵押款）
  the situation in which the value of sb's house is less than the amount of money that is still owed to a mortgage company, such as a bank

柯林斯词典

• 负资产
  If someone who has borrowed money to buy a house or flat hasnegative equity, the amount of money they owe is greater than the present value of their home.

双语例句

• At the moment, more and more American households are choosing the first as a way of dealing with the problem of negative equity, while more and more companies are being driven towards bankruptcy.
  目前，越来越多的美国家庭正在选择第一种方式来处理负资产问题，而越来越多的企业被迫申请破产。
• What is required is action by the president and Congress: to help homeowners with negative equity and businesses that cannot get credit, to remove the threat of higher tax rates, and reduce the out-year fiscal deficits.
  现在需要的是总统和国会采取行动：向拥有负资产净值的住房所有者和无法获得信贷的企业伸出援手，消除加税的威胁，并削减未来几个财年的财政赤字。
• But in doing so they are working against the Treasury's broader goals: reducing the chances of foreclosure, cleansing the financial system of bad debts and negative equity, and rejuvenating lending.
  但其所作所为实际上违背了美国财政部的广义目标：减少丧失房屋抵押赎回权的概率，清除沉积在金融体系中的坏账和负资产，并且恢复借贷的活力。
• Voters still hold their own politicians to account for the insecurities that flow from interdependence. Blaming someone else offers insufficient answer to the homeowners trapped in negative equity or to depositors or creditors in a failing bank.
  选民们仍然要求自己的政客对相互依赖所带来的不安全局面负责。对陷入负资产困境的房主或破产银行的存款人或债权人来说，怪罪另一个人也不不足以解决他们的问题。
• By stopping the downward overshooting of house prices, the mortgage replacement programme would help all homeowners, including those who now have negative equity.
  通过阻止房价过度下跌，抵押置换计划将帮助所有房屋业主（包括目前持负资产者）。
• This is bad enough, but when coupled with falling house prices, it means that many face a particularly savage variety of negative equity.
  这够糟的了，但伴随房价下跌时，意味着许多人面对的是一种尤为残忍的负资产。
• At the very least, this would rescue many homeowners from the nightmare of negative equity.
  这种做法至少会将许多房主从负资产的噩梦中拯救出来。
• The problem for banks owning mortgage debt is that the two greatest causes of foreclosure negative equity and unemployment are both set to rise further.
  对于拥有抵押债务的银行来说，问题在于造成丧失抵押品赎回权的两个最大因素负资产和失业都必定会继续上升。
• Since this is an average number, and some households have little or no mortgage debt, this suggests that the proportion with negative equity likely increased significantly as well.
  考虑到这是一个平均数字，而一些家庭的抵押贷款债务很少或没有，这意味着（房屋）资产净值为负的比例可能也出现了大幅上升。
• America has never experienced negative equity on this scale before.
  美国以前从未经历过规模如此之大的负资产状况。