Foreclosures

The landmark ruling remands the city of Miami's 2013 suit against Wells Fargo and Bank of America to the lower court.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a mixed decision on the reach of the main federal housing-discrimination law, telling a lower court to reconsider whether Miami can sue banks for lending practices the city said contributed to urban blight.

Foreclosure activity continues to subside and most of the regulatory reforms created to protect distressed borrowers have been implemented. Yet mortgage servicers still haven't fully resolved the operational challenges facing their business.

Years after the worst of the housing crisis, states still dealing with high foreclosure activity are weighing laws to speed the process on vacant or abandoned properties.

National foreclosure activity is at an 11-year low, but some cities have yet to fully recover.

A bipartisan coalition in Pennsylvania created more than a decade ago to fight neighborhood blight is setting its sights on new legislative goals after a string of successes.

The current struggles of the oil-based economy of the Houma-Thibodaux, La., area has led to an increase in foreclosures, a new report says.

The struggling Pittsburgh Athletic Association in Oakland has paid $55,000 towards taxes it owes the county for the 7% drink tax, preventing a scheduled sheriff's sale Tuesday morning at the iconic Fifth Avenue social club.

With its mortgage in default and no refinancing on the horizon, The Plaza at PPL Center in Allentown, Pa.,appears headed for foreclosure.

Foreclosures in the first quarter of 2017 fell to pre-recession levels in Pima County, Ariz.

The monthly prepayment rate ticked up slightly month-to-month after dropping to a three-year low earlier this year.

The rate of home foreclosures in Houston was 52% below the average pre-recession rate.

A prominent Detroit property tax official moonlights as an executive for Home Team — the fledgling Detroit real estate company that recently pitched a controversial plan to acquire thousands of foreclosed homes — raising questions about a potential conflict of interest.

Foreclosure activity continues to fade in Southwest Florida this year, staying at pre-recession levels of distressed homeowners.

Sales of foreclosed homes in Monroe County, Pa., fell dramatically for the first few months of the year, figures from the local Realtors association revealed.

Foreclosure rates in Ohio's biggest metropolitan areas have dropped well below pre-recession levels.

First-quarter foreclosure activity was down 19% from the same period last year to the lowest level since the third quarter of 2006.

Almost half of U.S. housing markets are now seeing foreclosure rates lower than they were before the Great Recession.

Tampa Bay's foreclosure and mortgage delinquency rates continue to fall substantially, although they still are above the national averages.

Mortgage delinquencies are declining in the Toledo, Ohio, area.