Distressed

Amid a better jobs climate, tougher lending standards and rising home prices, mortgage foreclosure filings in Wisconsin have fallen to their lowest level in at least 17 years.

The city of Las Vegas is strengthening its effort to identify homes at risk of becoming blighted or taken over by squatters.

Cast members for the Orlando-based cable show "Zombie House Flipping" say it's become tough to find the kind of abandoned foreclosures that made Central Florida somewhat infamous a few years ago.

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A new, affordable, two-family home will be built in Central Falls, R.I., replacing a blighted six-unit multifamily property that has been demolished.

The Pine Tree Plaza in Sterling, Ill., will be auctioned online after a string of tenant departures put the property in foreclosure.

As it presses forward with downtown revitalization, the city of Aiken, S.C., is also considering a crackdown on abandoned and distressed properties, some located mere blocks from the heart of downtown.

City commissioners approved a deal Wednesday aimed at turning around two beachside rental homes that have churned out lawlessness and code violations, but the neighbors who have begged for help are worried the trouble isn't going to stop.

The Erie County, N.Y., Legislature unanimously adopted a resolution asking for a state law that would enable local leaders to shorten the foreclosure timetable for bank-owned vacant homes.

As housing prices continue their climb toward pre-recession levels, enabling homeowners to regain equity, mortgage foreclosures and delinquency rates in the Bradenton-Sarasota, Fla., region remain on the decline.