Distressed

Baltimore had the highest share of distressed home sales of any city in the country, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Just 5.1% of the $91 million of liens backing the transaction are vacant, down from 9.2% of the prior deal; this allowed the sponsor to borrower more heavily against the value of hte collateral.

Mortgage foreclosure starts and active foreclosures were at their lowest level in over a decade although there was an increase in new delinquencies in June, according to Black Knight.

Connecticut entered July with the fifth-highest rate of residential mortgages under foreclosure in the nation, according to a study of more than 360,000 foreclosures nationally over the first six months of the year.

Foreclosure filings plummeted in the first half of the year, but 40% of local markets saw foreclosure starts increase, with the last housing bubble no longer to blame for the growth, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The Columbus, Ohio, city attorney's office has filed a complaint against a corporation based in Nebraska and Columbus that owns 11 blighted properties here and created companies to shield it from liability.

Lori and Dwayne Bell of Derby, N.Y., have been scared out of their minds for almost 10 years.

Conversations about the current housing market often have good news/bad news scenarios.

The number of Tampa Bay homeowners underwater on their mortgages has plunged by more than two-thirds since 2015.

Commercial mortgage bonds are getting stuffed with the lowest-quality loans since the financial crisis by one measure, according to Moody's Investors Service.