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 ...

I wrote recently about a problem many communities are facing: ghost neighborhoods filled with empty, repossessed houses ripe for crime. Some cities, anxious to maintain property values, have taken to ...

What if people who lost their homes to foreclosure could rent them back from the lenders that repossessed them? That idea, which has lingered on the outskirts of the housing-crisis debate, got a boost ...

Tim Adams is one busy real estate agent, and his hectic professional life has nothing to do with the contraction among his peers since the start of the housing market slump. Adams specializes in ...

The robosigning scandal and other issues led to fewer foreclosures in final months of 2010. But banks still repossessed just over a million homes last year, according to a report out today from ...

The taint of “foreclosure” sticks with homes whose owners failed to make their mortgage payments. But while that might make such houses an odious deal to some home buyers, it has proven to be a ...

The sale of repossessed houses at knockdown prices is unfair, unconstitutional, and a human rights and dignity issue, as it leaves financially distressed individuals with huge debts, when they have ...