Distressed

Renita Barbee has begun packing up the belongings in her rented South Los Angeles home. She was trying hard to hold her composure as she told her story the other day.

As is the case with most communities across Western New York, Lockport has its share of "zombie" properties.

Aside from shutting off water to Detroit residents, no public policy draws so much criticism as the annual Wayne County auction of tax-foreclosed properties.

The new tool tracks both serious and general delinquencies down to a county level and features interactive charts and graphs.

There's a handful of zombies out there threatening to wreck your neighborhood or at least create a frightful landscaping nightmare next door.

Credit Suisse's plan for consumer relief in a multibillion-dollar Department of Justice settlement related to residential mortgage-backed securities could reduce the costs involved, according to the settlement monitor's first report.

The zombies are still haunting the Southwest Florida housing market, but they are taking a smaller bite.

Nearly 1.4 million residential properties were vacant as of the end of the third quarter, representing 1.58% of all U.S. residential properties, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The deal, known as Bayview Opportunity Master Fund IVb Trust 2017-RT6, pools 2,745 current loans, of which nearly 58% have been clean for at least two years, and 55.2% have been modified.

The Worcester City Council has asked the city administration to identify affordable housing that might exist for people resettling here from hurricane-battered Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.