Foreclosures

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.

Fires can make or break Staten Island, N.Y., zombie homes.

The mortgage delinquency rate reached its lowest point in nearly a decade in May due to tighter underwriting, according to CoreLogic.

Home shoppers may soon have a chance to snag an Upper Arlington, Ohio, mansion for about half its value.

Twenty years ago, Texas became the last state in the union to legalize the home equity loan, allowing people for the first time to use their own homes as collateral.

Foreclosure actions on Cape Cod are showing their first decrease in four years, aided by a red-hot housing market that's making it easier for distressed homeowners to offload their property before losing it to the bank.

Getting rundown or blighted properties renovated to meet safety codes and restored to the tax rolls is the goal of a program known as receivership, a report about which was presented to the Holyoke, Mass., City Council.