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Surging U.S. Property Prices Boost Americans’ Home Equity
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The housing recovery is giving Americans a boost to their net worth.
Home equity in the first quarter rose to $11.7 trillion, the highest since 2007, according to a Federal Reserve report released Thursday in Washington. Real estate equity accounted for almost 14 percent of households’ net worth, the biggest share since 2008.