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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No it does not cancel out, because when you lose money on your old house, you are left with that debt.
And having that debt makes it impossible to take a loan for a new house.

I've seen this work out in practice up to 10 years after the housing bubble burst in 2008. Where we visited many foreclosures people couldn't afford to keep, and couldn't afford to move away from. It's a very bad debt trap that I think maybe USA has regulation to get out of, but IDK if other countries have that, we for sure don't have it here.