Foreclosures

As housing prices continue their climb toward pre-recession levels, enabling homeowners to regain equity, mortgage foreclosures and delinquency rates in the Bradenton-Sarasota, Fla., region remain on the decline.

Robert and Dolores Sexton never saw it coming: a classic real estate ruse the Bay Area retirees say has cost them the home they bought almost 42 years ago.

The number of homes with a foreclosure filing increased 5% in May over the previous month, as properties entering the process also increased by 5%.

Fewer Colorado Springs homeowners are sinking on their mortgages, a national report released by housing data firm CoreLogic shows.

St. Louis County, Minn., made a cool $350,500 selling 25 parcels that had been given up by their previous owners for non-payment of property taxes.

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

Jenni Leocadio vowed not to go couch surfing at her sister's again after getting evicted from her two-story Santa Ana, Calif., apartment in April.

Three Northern California men, including one of Oakland's largest landlords, were convicted of creating a massive bid-rigging scheme to scoop up hundreds of foreclosed properties at suppressed prices.

Voters during a special town meeting approved a measure that would allow the town to bid up to $5 million on 87 acres of land across from the Village Fire Station on North Street in Kennebunkport, Maine, that is likely headed for foreclosure next week.

Wayne Francis, the lawyer and real estate speculator captured while hiding in a Connecticut hotel room over the holiday weekend, was presented in court Tuesday on a larceny charge and held on a $2 million bond.

DLJ Mortgage Capital, a subsidiary of Credit Suisse, is securitizing $91 million of loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration that were once delinquent but are now making timely payments.

Nearly 10 years after the housing bubble burst, the median home-sale price in the Philadelphia suburbs is down 11%, having dropped $27,000, from $242,950 in the first quarter of 2007 to $216,000 in 2017.

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

Dozens stood out in the rain Thursday morning to protest the foreclosure eviction of an elderly man and his son from their Sixteen Acres home in Springfield, Mass.

Mortgage delinquencies increased 13% in April from March, but the calendar and seasonality were the primary reasons for the spike, said Black Knight Financial Services.

Fidelity National Financial has acquired Hudson & Marshall, a real estate auction company, and in a related move its ServiceLink subsidiary introduced a foreclosure auction product.

Nationstar Mortgage is issuing its seventh securitization of nonperforming reverse mortgages.

It was a rare lucrative business for Wall Street in the aftermath of the financial crisis: snapping up properties in foreclosure and renting them out. So good, in fact, that now, as the distressed pool dries up, some investors are refusing to let the rental-model fizzle.

A Tamarac, Fla., man scammed tens of thousands of dollars from three homeowners who were falling behind on their monthly payments during the mortgage crisis, investigators say.

A Newport Beach, Calif., man was arraigned on charges of impersonating an attorney and defrauding clients through debt consolidation and mortgage modification schemes, according to the Orange County District Attorney's office.