Foreclosures

Communication between all parties in the chain, from borrower through guarantor, is the best way to minimize mortgage losses after events like last year’s hurricanes and wildfires, according to servicers and federal officials.

A Bridgeport, Conn., local debt collection lawyer, embroiled in a controversy over the city's foreclosure on homeowners owing back sewer bills, is being sued by a local homeowner who claims he was the victim of an illegal foreclosure.

It was a record-setting year in terms of the low number of foreclosure starts, partially helped by the various post-storm moratoria, according to Black Knight.

A group led by the National Fair Housing Alliance is suing Deutsche Bank, Ocwen Financial Corp. and Altisource Portfolio Solutions, alleging real estate owned properties in minority communities do not receive the same level of upkeep and maintenance as REO houses in white neighborhoods.

A bill introduced in the Ohio House would speed up legal action against landlords who own blighted properties that become magnets for crime.

The candidates being discussed lately to run the agency bring experience on consumer protection issues, and potential bipartisan appeal.

Frost Bank announced in October that it would be vacating the high-rise building bearing its name on North Carancahua Street in Corpus Christi.

In the 10-county Columbus area, foreclosure documents were filed on 4,697 properties last year, down from 6,719 the previous year.

Loans late by 90 days or more are increasingly concentrated in parts of Florida, Georgia and southeast Texas as fallout from the storms continues to weigh on the market.

The worst of the residential foreclosure crisis may be in Connecticut's rearview mirror, but a recent report still ranks the state high among all states for homeowners with troubled mortgages.

Foreclosure rates in Pima County, Ariz., last year dropped to their lowest level since the start of the housing crash.

Foreclosure filings were reported on 676,535 properties nationwide in 2017, marking the lowest level of foreclosure activity since 2005.

Two adjoining houses on Sixth Street in Niagara Falls were demolished last week as part of the city's ongoing battle against zombie houses.

The payments resolve a number of cases that date back to 2011 and were among the largest coordinated U.S. enforcement efforts in the years following the crisis.

Franklin County, Ohio, foreclosures fell to the lowest level on record last year, according to figures released by the county clerk's office.

A decade after the housing market crashed, foreclosures in Dallas-Fort Worth have slowed to a trickle.

Despite the overall mortgage delinquency rate being down in October, early-stage mortgage delinquencies increased following an active hurricane season, according to CoreLogic.

The Denver judge, who last spring ruled that former foreclosure king Larry Castle and his law firm did not violate state laws designed to protect consumers against fraudulent charges, was biased and made several missteps during the three-week bench trial leading up to his decision, the Colorado attorney general's office asserts in its appeal of the verdict.

Two major shopping centers in Keene, N.H., are scheduled for sale at foreclosure auctions in January, according to ads taken out by an auction company.

Sen. Sherrod Brown called on the Trump administration to support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement action against PHH Corp., which agreed to a $45 million settlement this week related to foreclosure abuses.