Foreclosures

Renita Barbee has begun packing up the belongings in her rented South Los Angeles home. She was trying hard to hold her composure as she told her story the other day.

The Lone Star Brewery in San Antonio was supposed to be buzzing with construction workers and equipment by now — after sitting vacant for decades.

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

Aside from shutting off water to Detroit residents, no public policy draws so much criticism as the annual Wayne County auction of tax-foreclosed properties.

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

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida has approved a portal created by HLP to enhance communications during the mediation process.

The zombies are still haunting the Southwest Florida housing market, but they are taking a smaller bite.

Nearly 1.4 million residential properties were vacant as of the end of the third quarter, representing 1.58% of all U.S. residential properties, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Walter Investment Management Corp. was supposed to prosper by snapping up mortgage cast-offs from big banks at fire-sale prices. Instead, Walter is belatedly joining the list of companies burned by the U.S. housing crisis.

A judge who imposed a $45 million penalty on Bank of America Corp. over a foreclosure on a California couple still isn't ready to forget the case he described as a "Kafkaesque nightmare."

Sens. Dean Heller and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada called on mortgage industry leaders to provide relief and financial assistance to victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas.

Something of a Santa Cruz, Calif., institution, the Darling House bed and breakfast was sold for nearly $2.78 million cash in a foreclosure auction on the steps of the Santa Cruz County courthouse Thursday.

While foreclosure activity is a whisper of what it was at the peak of the crisis six years ago, Shasta County, Calif., had the third-highest foreclosure rate in California in the third quarter of 2017.

U.S. foreclosure activity dropped to a low not seen since 2006, according to Attom Data Solutions.

A lawyer has been convicted on federal fraud charges for scheming to provide falsified documents to prevent foreclosure on a nearly $2 million parcel of land in Aurora, Ill.

It's been years since the Bay Area housing market began its dramatic, post-recession appreciation in prices, and delinquency rates for home loans keep falling across the region.

Although property tax loans raise concerns for the mortgage industry, there is a way for property tax lenders and mortgage companies to co-exist.

A Hazleton, Pa., real estate agent who admitted bilking home buyers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through bogus property sales was sentenced to serve more than four years in federal prison.

A Jacksonville, Fla., family won't lose its house because of a foreclosure auction held the day Hurricane Irma blasted through town.

A bankruptcy judge who spent 107 pages excoriating Bank of America Corp. over its "heartless" foreclosure on a California couple is not happy that the homeowners want him to erase his words.