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Foreclosure is back at the center of the U.S. housing story, as lenders step up efforts to reclaim properties from struggling ...

Foreclosure activity has declined significantly since the housing crisis of the late 2000s, and distressed home marketplace Auction.com reported this week that it expects the number of ...

ATTOM attributes the decline in foreclosure rates and the low number of zombie foreclosures to high homeowner equity. Nearly 1.4 million (1,357,423) residential properties in the United States are ...

The number of empty U.S. homes stayed relatively flat in the third quarter of 2025, even as abandoned foreclosure properties -- so-called "zombies" -- ticked higher, underscoring resilience in housing ...