If you’re falling behind on mortgage payments — or thinking about buying a distressed property — you may be wondering: What does pre-foreclosure mean? Simply put, pre-foreclosure is the early warning ...

The great promise of short sales and other distressed pre-foreclosure sales as a foreclosure alternative is most fully realized in a competitive and transparent online auction marketplace, according ...

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When you fall behind on mortgage payments, your lender may eventually take your home to recoup the loss. But that won’t happen right away. Lenders must follow a series of steps that start with ...

anely Sandoval’s calling to be a pre-foreclosure peacemaker started when she was in high school. “My mom and stepdad went into pre-foreclosure,” said Sandoval, a real estate agent and investor who ...

229,864 residential properties in the U.S. are in the process of foreclosure in the first quarter this year, up 3% from the previous quarter and up 31% from the first quarter last year. Among those ...

ATTOM attributes the decline in foreclosure rates and the low number of zombie foreclosures to high homeowner equity. Nearly 1.4 million (1,357,423) residential properties in the United States are ...

Based on ATTOM's newly released third-quarter 2023 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report, 1.3 million (1,277,612) residential properties in the United States are vacant. That figure represents ...

Flagstar Bank has filed four separate pre-foreclosure actions against more than half of Pinnacle Group’s residential portfolio over a group of loans totaling more than $600 million, according to ...