Foreclosure News

More than 112 victims of a foreclosure rescue scam in Michigan will be helped after the state prosecuted a company for making misleading or false statements to homeowners, Attorney General Bill Schuette has announced.

Wilson and Associates PLLC, secretary-treasurer, to American Homes 4 Rent Properties Seven LLC, in Mount Pleasant subdivision, $133,501.

This was down 27% from a year ago and was the lowest monthly total since December 2006.

Already, nearly 30 percent of those who qualified for relief have defaulted again.

Foreclosure defense lawyers use the term `ta-da' endorsement to describe situations in which they say a document appears, as if by magic, in the bank's possession as needed in a foreclosure case--even though the proper endorsement was not included in the original foreclosure filing.

A woman died in the garage of a home in a lively Pontiac neighborhood and went undetected so long that her body decomposed and, police said, 'mummified.'

With the fervor of a veteran revival preacher, Abdul'Haq Muhammed promised to fight for the future of Dunbar's Quality Life Center.

March is here, and you might think that the recovering housing market will soar this spring, as a brighter economy and still-attractive mortgage rates converge to lift the sector to new heights.

An affiliate of home building giant Lennar Corp. wants to seize 76.2 acres of farmland in Homestead through foreclosure.

Rich Burleson, with Mid-America Elevator Co., works on elevator controls at the new Greenwood City Center, 300 S. Madison Ave., Tuesday, March 11, 2014.

Curtis Olson stands in front of a string of condemned houses on East Brookeside Street on March 12, 2014.

Several community assistance organizations are suing California, alleging the state improperly diverted nearly $370 million that was intended to help homeowners struggling with foreclosures.

Three community assistance organizations sued Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials on Friday, alleging the state improperly diverted nearly $370 million that was intended to help homeowners struggling with foreclosures.

Last week, the Florida Third District Court of Appeal dealt the final blow to an often-used strategy by condominium associations.

But to make it work, the city needs the support of the financial community, which it alienated with the misguided plan to save some homeowners from foreclosure by seizing mortgages from lenders through eminent domain.

Foreclosure activity dropped to its lowest level last month since December 2006, according to the housing data site RealtyTrac , but the numbers for New Jersey weren't as promising.

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A Mullica Hill man was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme that resulted in at least 35 fraudulent mortgage loans worth more than $10 million.

Illinois is still in second place for states with the most owner-vacated foreclosures, or " zombie properties " as some call them.

Douglas County was 12th in Georgia in February foreclosures , according to data cited by the Douglas County Sentinel.