The numbers are sobering ? banks had foreclosed on 95,364 houses ? the highest figures in a month since the last five years RealtyTrac has been keeping tabs on the foreclosure ...

Any home sale is a good one in the current market, but banks' sales of foreclosed properties bring down prices. These sales are still a major part...

The number of U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in July dropped 35% from a year earlier as efforts to aid indebted homeowners picked up...

Foreclosures fell steeply in the first half of the year, but as has repeatedly been the case with housing indicators, this seemingly good news is...

Foreclosures are the blight that has spread through the real estate market and driven prices to decade lows. The drop in property values that...

Foreclosure activity decreased in April, bringing the number of filings down to a 40-month low, new figures show, but experts warn: Don't be...

The real estate market is showing signs of life after being pushed into the abyss by the Great Recession. A resurgence, though, is not around the...

Foreclosures in Virginia continue to rise from a year ago, but the rate here is better than it is nationally. One in every 567 Virginia households, or a total of 5,694, received a foreclosure filing in November, according to a RealtyTrac report released today. Connie Chamberlin, president and chief executive of Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia Inc., a ...

US home foreclosures, at the root of the global financial crisis, fell to the lowest levels in five months in November but it may be a lull before the storm, according to a group tracking foreclosures.Foreclosure filings -- default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions -- were reported on 259,085 properties in November, a seven percent drop from October ...