Foreclosures

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.

Over the past 20 years, 395 code violation cases with $4.46 million in unpaid fines have piled up at City Hall.

Foreclosure activity continued to slow last month in the Pikes Peak region.

Hundreds of homes and properties are neglected, abandoned or vacant across Staten Island, N.Y.

Dustin Hoffman has notched a victory in his legal fight over a $3-million investment he made with Jeffrey Yohai, a real estate developer who is the son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Three California men who previously operated Star Reliable Mortgage were ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution and are facing multiyear prison terms related to a foreclosure rescue scheme.

The largest single-family investors slowed their pace of acquisitions years ago, but plenty of smaller firms are picking up the slack.

At midyear, fewer than 1% of the homes in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties were stuck in the foreclosure mill.

The rate at which mortgages prepay has gotten a little higher the last two months, but it is lower than it was at the same time last year.

The foreclosure rate in the Twin Cities metro is at an all-time low and is now one of the lowest in the U.S.

A Pierce County judge says a notorious Seattle landlord — not thieves — tried to profit from cutting wires throughout a vacant Tacoma apartment building and ordered him to pay $1.1 million.

There were 424,800 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in the first half of 2017, down 20% from the prior year, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The number of foreclosure filings on properties in the six-county Chattanooga, Tenn., metropolitan area dropped 26.8% in the first half of 2017.

The Toledo, Ohio, home foreclosure rate continues to drop, as the market approaches normalcy after being battered during the economic crisis.

Higher home prices and a stable job market have slashed the number of foreclosures across South Florida.

Summit County, Ohio, is cracking down on Gary Thomas by initiating foreclosure proceedings against 22 companies they say he and associates use to control 73 properties with a collective bill of $756,298 in back taxes and fees.