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Vanessa Krnjaich may not have thought she was saving a neighborhood when she bought her fixer-upper for $45,555 at auction in August 2013.

Mortgage Contracting Services will acquire Carrington Home Solutions' property preservation division in a deal expected to close by the end of the year.

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

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

Rick Felix paid $200,000 for a four-bedroom, split-level foreclosed house in Ambler. He made the payment in cash without any option to inspect or even get a good look inside the place beforehand.

If Fannie Mae's clear-boarding requirements prove effective, New York may follow Ohio's lead and move forward with a bill requiring it to be used more broadly on zombie properties.

Fires can make or break Staten Island, N.Y., zombie homes.

Hundreds of homes and properties are neglected, abandoned or vacant across Staten Island, N.Y.

The blighted property review committee wants to take a multipronged approach to addressing neglected properties in Hazelton, Pa.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has signed a bill that will expedite foreclosures of vacant and abandoned properties this fall.