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.

VA- and FHA-backed mortgages helped drive the increase in property volume, but sales did not maintain the same pace, ...

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 repossessed fewer U.S. homes in January, bringing the number of completed foreclosures down to the lowest level in more than six years. Even so, many states posted sharp ...

Foreclosure activity rose notably in 2025, according to the ATTOM Year-End 2025 Foreclosure Market Report, reflecting a ...

U.S. foreclosure filings rose 14% in 2025 to 367,460 properties, but they remain 87% below the 2010 peak, according to ATTOM ...

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 ...

Foreclosures occur when a lender takes back a property from an owner who has defaulted on their mortgage payments. Buying a ...