Quick Read Foreclosure filings jumped 26% year over year to 118,727 properties in Q1 2026, marking the highest level in six ...

Foreclosure filings hit nearly 119,000 in the first quarter of 2025, a 26% increase from last year, as homeowners face rising insurance and property tax burdens.

In January there was a seven-fold increase in foreclosure starts as compared to December, with roughly 33,000 loans referred to foreclosure, according to a report from mortgage data and analytics ...

A vast "shadow inventory" of foreclosed homes that banks are holding off the market could wreak havoc with the already battered real estate sector, industry observers say. Lenders nationwide are ...

It wasn’t long ago when a foreclosure conjured up the image of a ramshackle house with an overgrown yard in a bad neighborhood. Subprime lending changed all that, according to Dave Webb, of ...

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