Foreclosures

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.

Arlando Jacobs and Clarence Roland stole homes across Texas and two other states with the scribble of a pen, the FBI says.

The ruling said there was no lien on the titles because the Resolution Trust Corp. agreed to the foreclosure, making it legal.

In addition to hundreds of people made homeless quickly by Hurricane Irma, a Jacksonville, Fla., family may learn this week whether they, too, lost their house during the storm.

Niagara Falls, N.Y., officials have filed what they say is among the first regional legal claims under a new state law meant to arm governments against the spread of urban blight.

Fewer Long Islanders are drowning in mortgage debt as the housing market continues its slow recovery.

Houston's housing market will be in recovery mode for a while following epic floods from Hurricane Harvey.