Topic: Florida

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More Americans fell into foreclosure in July as a sour job market kept them from making payments, and banks took over homes at a near record pace. Banks repossessed the second highest monthly number of homes ever last ...

Florida mortgage relief firm paying back $2.4 million to settle charges it misled consumersFederal regulators say a Florida company they accused of misleading borrowers who were seeking to avoid foreclosure has agreed to repay the consumers $2.4 million to settle those charges. ...

Report: Most large US metro areas saw spike in foreclosure warnings between January-JuneHouseholds across a majority of large U.S. cities received more foreclosure warnings in the first six months of this year than in the first half of 2009, new data shows. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foreclosure activity fell in April as lenders repossessed homes at a record pace but started far fewer new actions against struggling homeowners, signaling a plateau in loan failures, RealtyTrac said on Thursday. No meaningful improvement is likely this ...

Foreclosures rise 6 percent in February, smallest yearly increase in 4 yearsThe foreclosure crisis isn't over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing down. RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday that the number of U.S. households facing foreclosure in February grew 6 ...

<div id="subtitle">New mortgage delinquencies fell at end of 2009 as foreclosure crisis begins to ebb</div><div><p>The end of the foreclosure crisis is finally in sight. For the first time in almost three years, the number of homeowners falling behind on their loans is ...

Supreme Court requires mediation to help cope with flood of Florida foreclosure casesLenders will be required to pick up the tab for investigating and verifying ownership and then try mediation before foreclosing Florida home mortgages under new rules approved Thursday by the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. foreclosure actions shattered all records in 2009 and will do so again this year, with unemployment and wage cuts overcoming programs to remedy failing home loans, RealtyTrac said on Thursday. A record 2.8 million properties with a ...

A record 2.8 million home receive foreclosure notice in 2009; December rate spikesA record 2.8 million households were threatened with foreclosure last year, and that number is expected to rise this year as more unemployed and cash-strapped homeowners fall behind on their ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida's Miami-Dade County will start using the Internet next month in a bid to help auction off tens of thousands of delinquent properties that have put it on the frontlines of the U.S. foreclosure crisis. The first auction on ...