Foreclosure rates for U.S.-based properties in October rose by nearly a third from last year and 2% from the month before, as homebuyers wrestle to keep up with the rising costs of goods and services.

Foreclosure activity in the U.S. is on the rise in 2025, a notable shift that begins to undo a decade of relative stability.

On top of surging homeowners-insurance premiums, property taxes are also pushing up people’s costs and putting pressure on ...

Jamison explained that there were low interest rates, moratoriums preventing foreclosure, and lenders were working with ...

Human activity — whether it’s cooking or smoking in bed — sets off most house fires. That explains why the vast majority happen in homes that are occupied. But foreclosures, on top of depopulation in ...

NEW YORK – House foreclosures rose 14 percent in the second quarter and more than doubled compared to the same period a year ago, according to data released Friday. Nationwide, 739,714 homes received ...

Jeff Wagoner is a bankruptcy attorney in Kansas City, Mo., with the brush-cut hair and clear eyes of a former Navy aviator. From his office in a tower on a hill, he can see miles of prairie and a ...

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 ...

After a Halloween auction was canceled when a new lender took over the haunted house's mortgage, several questions arose ...