Foreclosure Blog Posts

After a month of bad news about housing starts, existing home sales, and mortgage delinquencies, the number of homes going into foreclosure is slowing rapidly. RealtyTrac reported 308524 US properties foreclosures last month, ...

By Mary Ellen Podmolik | While foreclosure activity in troubled states like California, Arizona and Nevada posted year-over-year declines last month, Illinois had a 21.76 percent increase in foreclosure filings in February. ...

RealtyTrac reported Thursday that foreclosures in February rose only 6%, their smallest increase since 2006, but with millions of homeowners underwater on their mortgages and unemployment around 10%, even that small hint of good news ...

The foreclosure crisis forced the federal government and several states to come up with plans to prolong the process so delinquent borrowers can try to find help. But those efforts have barely dented the problem. ...

March 11, 2010 - RealtyTrac® (www.realtytrac.com), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released its February 2010 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report„¢, which shows foreclosure filings - default notices, ...

Only about a third of the homeowners who have successfully completed the trial period of the Obama administration's mortgage modification program have been offered permanent relief, according to new federal data obtained by the ...

€œThis leveling of the foreclosure trend is not necessarily evidence that fewer homeowners are in distress and at risk for foreclosure, but rather that foreclosure prevention programs, legislation and other processing delays are in ...

RealtyTrac has reported February foreclosure activity, which at 308524 units, was a 2% decline from January, and a 6% increase year over year. This equates to one in 418 housing units. And not surprisingly, the snow was once again ...