Foreclosures

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.

Distressed-mortgage investors are descending on troubled Puerto Rico. What’s luring them is the opportunity to scoop up home loans and foreclosed properties for pennies on the dollar.

A foreclosure sale of Memphis' tallest building has been pushed to Aug. 16 as court-ordered work to secure the building continues.

Extending a recent trend when it comes to paying the mortgage each month, homeowners in the Bradenton-Sarasota, Fla., region are fulfilling their obligation at a better rate compared to the rest of the state.

The rate of mortgages in some stage of delinquency was 4.8% in April 2017, a 50-basis-point drop compared to a year ago.

Amid a better jobs climate, tougher lending standards and rising home prices, mortgage foreclosure filings in Wisconsin have fallen to their lowest level in at least 17 years.

A Methuen, Mass., woman was forced to sell her home recently after she fell victim to an apparent scam targeting homeowners who are struggling with their mortgages.

The city of Las Vegas is strengthening its effort to identify homes at risk of becoming blighted or taken over by squatters.

Cast members for the Orlando-based cable show "Zombie House Flipping" say it's become tough to find the kind of abandoned foreclosures that made Central Florida somewhat infamous a few years ago.

The Pine Tree Plaza in Sterling, Ill., will be auctioned online after a string of tenant departures put the property in foreclosure.

The proposed site in Danvers, Mass., of a Registry of Motor Vehicles office is scheduled to be sold in a foreclosure auction, casting doubt on when, or if, the registry will actually end up there.