LOS ANGELES – Fewer U.S. homes are completing the foreclosure process and ending up repossessed by banks because investors increasingly are buying up properties when they go on sale at public auction.

Keeping the flow of foreclosures moving is crucial for the sluggish housing market, which is still trying to regain its strength after five years of elevated foreclosures. Foreclosure activity in the ...

Foreclosure is back at the center of the U.S. housing story, as lenders step up efforts to reclaim properties from struggling ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lenders took possession of fewer U.S. homes in 2012 than a year earlier, as the pace of new homes entering the path to foreclosure slowed and banks increasingly opted to allow ...

There are a lot of misconceptions out there about what it takes to get a great investment property at the best possible price. In my experience, foreclosed properties have always offered the most ...

Home foreclosure rates in the Raleigh-Cary metro area and across North Carolina increased more than 25 percent in the first quarter of 2008 compared with the same time period in 2007. Owners of some 3 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. abandoned home Zombie foreclosures are up, and the hardest-hit areas are in the South and Midwest. In the second quarter, 7,329 of ...

With home prices staying high and mortgage rates still above 6.8% as of mid-2025, many buyers are exploring alternative ways to enter the housing market. One option that continues to spark interest is ...

NEW YORK -- The bleakest year in foreclosure crisis has only just begun. Lenders are poised to take back more homes this year than any other since the U.S. housing meltdown began in 2006. About 5 ...

Doug Andrews never knows what a day will bring. As the co-owner of Neighborhood Resources, a business that clears out, cleans and secures foreclosed homes, Andrews said every day brings something new.

(AP) Fewer U.S. homes are completing the foreclosure process and ending up repossessed by banks because investors are increasingly buying up properties when they go on sale at public auction. The ...