If you're searching for a house to buy-- and you're looking for a deal -- a foreclosure may be an enticing option. Foreclosed properties, which have been taken back by a lender after the homeowners ...

Buying a foreclosed home can be a good way to score a deal while hunting for real estate. A foreclosure is a house whose owners were unable to pay the mortgage or sell the property. As a result, the ...

U.S. foreclosures are no longer a statistical footnote, they are a clear signal that the housing slowdown is finally hitting ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial ...

The number of North Texas homes facing foreclosure in 2023 rose by more than 19% from a year earlier. But Dallas-Fort Worth home foreclosure filings are still well below where they were before the ...

After years of steadily rising, home prices are starting to come down nationwide, while the foreclosure rate is rising dramatically. Meanwhile, over a million foreclosures are expected to be recorded ...

A growing number of U.S. homeowners are losing their properties because they cannot keep up with mortgage payments—with some states seeing drastically higher default rates than others. Put another way ...

Every three months, 250,000 American families enter into foreclosure throughout the United States, according to data compiled from the Mortgage Bankers Association. Despite how life-altering it can be ...

New data shows one- and two-family homes are being lost at auction in a familiar set of Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods.

Rick LeBlanc was able to qualify for a new mortgage for a home in St. Augustine Beach, Fla., seven years after he fell behind on a mortgage on a home he lost to foreclosure. AnnaMaria Andriotis ...

Good morning. I’m Andrew Khouri, the L.A. Times Business section’s residential real estate reporter, filling in for Rachel Schnalzer to bring you our weekly newsletter. During the last financial ...