REO

It was a rare lucrative business for Wall Street in the aftermath of the financial crisis: snapping up properties in foreclosure and renting them out. So good, in fact, that now, as the distressed pool dries up, some investors are refusing to let the rental-model fizzle.

Foreclosure activity continued to sink in Southwest Florida last month, tracking the statewide and national trends.

Across the nation, the once-pernicious foreclosure crisis nearly has abated, but in Lucas County, Ohio, foreclosure activity is stronger than it was a year ago.

Daytona Beach has a message for the hundreds of property owners who collectively have stiffed the city on $4.46 million in code violation fine payments: Pay up soon, or the city's coming after your land and buildings with foreclosure actions.

Foreclosure filings in April were at their lowest level since November 2005 at 77,049 properties, down 7% from March's 83,145 and 23% from April 2016.

The days of vacant, distressed homes covered in sheets of plywood appear numbered, as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac move toward greater adoption of polycarbonate "clear boarding" to secure foreclosure properties.

If you're a delinquent taxpayer, there is a fine line in Ontario County, N.Y., between losing your property and keeping it. In this case, that line is in Rushville.

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.