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Commissioners Court is considering slowing the growth of the Harris County, Texas, budget as officials continue to grapple with Hurricane Harvey's widespread destruction and potential impact on property tax revenues.

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.

Michigan residents are being urged to take advantage of a federally-funded state program designed to prevent foreclosures, while the money is still available.

The Great Recession, the most painful downturn since the Great Depression, destroyed more than 248,000 jobs in metro Atlanta — about one of every 10 — and led to a quarter-million foreclosures.

Hurricane Irma's price tag in federal disaster assistance now totals $1.95 billion in Florida, including $39 million on the Treasure Coast, according to federal reports.

In 2010, Florida was in the throes of an unprecedented housing crisis. One in every eight homes was in some stage of foreclosure. Today, the foreclosure rate is one in every 83.

The Home Affordable Refinance Program recorded a 45% drop in volume in October from the previous year as it continunes to wind down, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Tampa Bay has seen two booms in house flipping — one in the mid 2000s, when prices appeared on a steadily upward trajectory and again from 2011 to 2014, when the market was flooded with cheap foreclosures.

PHH Mortgage was the first mortgage servicer to be fined by the New York Department of Financial Services for failing to maintain a "zombie" property.

Two months after the October wildfires leveled more than 3,000 homes in Santa Rosa, Calif., "For Sale" signs are popping on vacant lots in Coffey Park and other fire-ravaged neighborhoods

Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin has charged a Milton, Mass., man with using a fraudulent house-flipping scheme to convince friends and investors to lend him money that he then used on restaurants, hotels and groceries.