Foreclosure News

Michigan homeowners could have more time to avoid foreclosure but less time to reverse it under legislation moving quickly through the state legislature.

QUESTION: My husband and I co-signed a loan for our son and his now ex-wife. Our son stayed in the home but fell behind on the payments, and the home was in foreclosure.

New home sales edged slightly higher once again in April as the housing market continues to give a lift to the U.S. economy.

He was self-employed. When his clients dried up, so did his software business. Reid sold his car, ate one meal a day, and paid his taxes with credit cards.

Foreclosure petitions dropped 100 percent in Wilmington in March of 2013 compared to the same month a year prior, according to a recent report by the Warren Group .

Recognized by Gary Verwilt, right, Bill Filbin in the center and Gerry Rosenbloom are distinguished in the 2012 Florida Realtors Honor Society.

But the house she purchased in 2010 is now in foreclosure. West lost her job and got behind on the mortgage.

As home prices rise and sales pick up, the housing crisis is increasingly becoming a distant memory as the United States recovers from one of the worst economic shocks in history.

There are currently only three foreclosures on the market in Suwanee, all of which are described below.

Marylanders received more than $1.3 billion in relief from the National Mortgage Settlement during a 12-month period, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced Tuesday.

The federal government has imposed a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures of homes with mortgages owned or backed by the Federal Housing Administration in areas of Oklahoma devastated by this week's tornado.

So far in 2013, Dallas-Fort Worth area home foreclosure filings have dropped almost 40 percent from the first six months of 2012.

According to Lucy O'Neill, a columnist for the Improvement Center , household pests are everywhere and some can be dangerous.

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When it comes to foreclosures, Norton and the state are slightly at odds. According to new data from the Warren Group, foreclosure petitions for the state dropped 82.42 percent in March 2013 compared to 2012.

Mark Huffman has been a consumer news reporter for ConsumerAffairs since 2004. He covers real estate, gas prices and the economy and has reported extensively on negative-option sales.

The new owner of the former American Motors Corp. headquarters is under federal investigation for allegedly removing and disposing of asbestos illegally, according to a search warrant recently unsealed in U.S. District Court.

Developer Renzo Renzi's attempt to stop foreclosure auctions on two Miami condominium projects through Chapter 7 filings has failed.

On the 20th of May, hundreds of opponents of foreclosures marched on the Department of Justice demanding that the "too big to fail" bankers be jailed and foreclosures be ended.

Last week, we wrote about a campout to stop South Park homeowner Jeremy Griffin from being evicted after a foreclosure.