Foreclosures

The long-term recovery for thousands of Texans whose homes were decimated by Hurricane Harvey rests with a Trump administration government outsider who wants his agency's budget cut by billions of dollars.

The legal logjam involving a pair of distressed properties in Garfield Heights, Ohio is starting to clear, after more than eight years of litigation and stagnation.

The New York State Department of Financial Services hasn't issued a single penalty against a bank or mortgage provider for failure to maintain and secure a property more than a year after the law requiring this upkeep was signed and eight months after it went into effect.

Rosemary Romero maintains the community garden at the entrance to Casa Linda, a 125-home subdivision in the center of town with entry off Cerrillos Road via Monterey Drive. It's a lovely neighborhood, she says, but is being damaged from the inside out.

While the national foreclosure crisis no longer commands much attention, a seven-year-old lawsuit tied to the foreclosure of a Centerville, Ohio, home continues to wind its way through the federal court system.

A new state law meant to combat the blight of "zombie" homes across New York lacks effective enforcement to hold banks accountable for actually maintaining the properties on Staten Island.

The Toledo, Ohio, area is among the top five metro area in the country with the highest share of mortgaged properties that are "seriously underwater," that is, more is owed than the property is worth.

Mortgage holders could see their security interest wiped out if a borrower in Texas or Nevada gets a property tax loan where the lien has priority over the first mortgage.

Blighted, abandoned properties in Hornell, N.Y., are not only in-check, according to officials, but they're declining at a rapid pace.

The winning bids at Saturday's annual Niagara County tax foreclosure auction totaled more than $1 million.