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Buying your first house? Follow these steps to avoid foreclosure, from setting a realistic budget to protecting your income ...

Falling behind on your mortgage? Know your rights, your timeline and your options before it's too late. Protect your credit score from missed payments.

If you’re behind on your mortgage payments and believe you won't be able to catch up, you may want to discuss a deed in lieu of foreclosure with your lender. A deed in lieu of foreclosure is an ...

When we were reading through real-estate data this month, three stats caught our eye. The first: that the number of active foreclosures (this is when the foreclosure process has begun on a seriously ...

Is this a repeat of the 2008 housing bust? The number of homeowners hit with foreclosure notices in the third quarter of the year jumped 34% from a year ago to nearly 125,000, according to a recent ...

The number of foreclosure starts — which is when the first public foreclosure notice happens — is up 219% since the start of the year, according to real estate data analytics firm ATTOM Data Solutions ...

Ask Contact 6 fields questions from you about debt collection and foreclosure defense. Questions were about everything from ...

There are still 1.618 million borrowers in forbearance programs, or 3.1% of all outstanding mortgages Some 98% of those troubled borrowers have at least 10% equity in their homes, not counting their ...

ATTOM reports 39,906 U.S. foreclosure filings in July, up 1% from June and 10% from July 2025, but still below pre-pandemic ...