LOS ANGELES – While the nation's foreclosure woes persist, new data show they're easing amid a resurgent housing market, rising home prices and efforts by some states to buy homeowners more time to ...

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.

Foreclosure filings surged 20% year over year in February, led by a rise in distressed housing across Indiana, South Carolina ...

LOS ANGELES – Fewer U.S. homes entered the foreclosure process or were repossessed by lenders last month, the latest indication that the nation's foreclosure woes are waning. Nationally, home ...

A vast "shadow inventory" of foreclosed homes that banks are holding off the market could wreak havoc with the already battered real estate sector, industry observers say. Lenders nationwide are ...

Tim Adams is one busy real estate agent, and his hectic professional life has nothing to do with the contraction among his peers since the start of the housing market slump. Adams specializes in ...

Keeping the flow of foreclosures moving is crucial for the sluggish housing market, which is still trying to regain its strength after five years of elevated foreclosures. Foreclosure activity in the ...