Foreclosures

Foreclosure activity during 2019 fell 21% from the previous year, but a few indicators show a change in direction could be possible, according to Attom Data Solutions.

A Virginia Beach, Va., real estate broker was sentenced to 13 months in prison for secretly purchasing foreclosed properties the Department of Housing and Urban Development hired him to sell.

A former Fannie Mae employee is facing more than six years in federal prison for participating in a scam involving discount sales of properties owned by the government-sponsored enterprise.

Jon Leiberman rarely plays the lottery but he felt like he won it this past June.

The nationwide mortgage delinquency rate had its best October in at least two decades, while the foreclosure rate remained at a 20-year for the twelfth straight month, according to CoreLogic.

A bankruptcy court judge denied a lender's motion to foreclose on properties controlled by an Austin real estate investor. But the judge then issued a warning, saying an exit plan better be ready by Feb. 2.

A lender that provided more than $388 million to finance one of Plano's biggest real estate developments has filed to foreclose on the project.

Every month, the Madison County Sheriff's Department conducts a sale of properties where banks and lending institutions have regained possession.

Vision Property Management has settled accusations made by New York regulators of predatory lending practices for a total of $3.75 million in cash and forgiven mortgage loan balances.

Wells Fargo, which contested the prior sale of a Manhattan, Kan., home for only $1 in a foreclosure auction, was the winning bidder at a new sheriff sale for the property.