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.

With home prices staying high and mortgage rates still above 6.8% as of mid-2025, many buyers are exploring alternative ways to enter the housing market. One option that continues to spark interest is ...

Regionally, some states and cities stood out for having unusually high foreclosure rates. Nationwide, about one in every 4,009 housing units had a foreclosure filing in May. But the rate was far worse ...

(AP) Lenders took possession of fewer U.S. homes in 2012 than a year earlier, as the pace of new homes entering the path to foreclosure slowed and banks increasingly opted to allow troubled borrowers ...

The number of Americans facing home foreclosures jumped for the 12th month in a row last month, hitting the owners of nearly 40,000 homes and raising concerns about the housing affordability crisis, ...

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 ...

More homeowners nationwide faced foreclosures in February compared with the month before—and three states stood out for having the highest rates of mortgage defaults. For comparison, looking at ...