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Loans late by 90 days or more are increasingly concentrated in parts of Florida, Georgia and southeast Texas as fallout from the storms continues to weigh on the market.

The worst of the residential foreclosure crisis may be in Connecticut's rearview mirror, but a recent report still ranks the state high among all states for homeowners with troubled mortgages.

Foreclosure rates in Pima County, Ariz., last year dropped to their lowest level since the start of the housing crash.

Foreclosure filings were reported on 676,535 properties nationwide in 2017, marking the lowest level of foreclosure activity since 2005.

Two adjoining houses on Sixth Street in Niagara Falls were demolished last week as part of the city's ongoing battle against zombie houses.

Franklin County, Ohio, foreclosures fell to the lowest level on record last year, according to figures released by the county clerk's office.

Sen. Sherrod Brown called on the Trump administration to support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement action against PHH Corp., which agreed to a $45 million settlement this week related to foreclosure abuses.

The foreclosure rate in Minnesota is now at the lowest level in more than a decade, and far below the national average.

Two New Jersey programs that provide financial assistance to homeowners on the brink of foreclosure are temporarily suspending acceptance of applications, a state official said this week.

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma contributed to a surge in seriously delinquent mortgages in November.