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ThinkstockForeclosure filings in the United States dropped 10% in February, compared with January, and 27% compared with February 2013, according to data releases Thursday by RealtyTrac. Florida,...
ThinkstockIn a sign that the housing recovery may still be uneven, January foreclosure rates moved higher by 8% when compared to December. The primary causes were increases in foreclosure starts and...
ThinkstockIn another sign that the financial situation of many Americans has improved, and perhaps that fewer mortgages are underwater, mortgage delinquencies fell to levels last seen in 2008, the...
ThinkstockForeclosure filings dropped back to 1.4 million on U.S. properties, the lowest level since 2007, which was before the Great Recession began. The figure was down 26% from 2012, and is...
The RealtyTrac U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report for December 2013 shows that the number of U.S. residential properties that were deeply underwater has decreased. But the news for homeowners...
ThinkstockIf foreclosure rates are among the hearts of the real estate industry, then housing has gotten much stronger. Foreclosure starts hit a 95-month low in November. Overall foreclosure filings...
ThinkstockRealtyTrac, the gold standard of research about foreclosures, reported more evidence that the real estate market continues the process of healing the tremendous damage done to it during the...
ThinkstockRealtyTrac produced more evidence that the housing market is in an impressive recovery. Unfortunately, the trend has left several states behind. In a statement: RealtyTrac released its U.S....
ThinkstockAs many as 40% of the homes sold in the U.S. in July were purchased in cash, up from 31% a year earlier, according to data published this week. Rising interest rates are partly driving this...
ThinkstockThe housing market has finally come full circle, at least by one measure. Foreclosure levels have dropped to those in December 2006, the year when the bubble apparently peaked. RealtyTrac...
ThinkstockThe housing market numbers may have recently softened up a tad, but things in the housing market are still much better for those wanting buy and own a home compared the last five years....
ThinkstockRealtyTrac, a leader in home foreclosure data, reported that the inventory of homes in foreclosure rose 9% year-over-year in the first quarter of this year to 1.5 million homes. In its...
ThinkstockThe rate of home foreclosures improved considerably in 2012. Enough, in fact, that the data confirms that the housing markets have begun a sharp recovery. However, taken in the context of...
ThinkstockForeclosures in the U.S. are falling, data released today by foreclosure tracking firm RealtyTrac shows. Last year, 1.8 million properties were foreclosed, down 2.7% from 2011, and down...
ThinkstockForeclosures have nose dived. However, the states hardest hit by the real estate disaster remain in deep trouble — another reminder that all housing problems are local and need to be...