Foreclosures

Home Foreclosures on the Rise in Polk – The Ledger

LAKELAND | Polk County saw an increase in foreclosures last month. The county’s total foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and repossessions — jumped 61 percent in April from the year before, and were up 16 percent from …


Foreclosures Again Rise In Mass.

Home foreclosures continue to rise across Massachusetts, even as they fall nationally.


Foreclosure Photo Exhibit Sheds Light On Housing Crisis – Huffington Post

To Carl Rutberg, executive director of the Alice Austen House, the show seemed apt for a museum honoring the legacy of a pioneering 19th-century woman photographer in her former home, which she lost to foreclosure because of financial reverses …


Protesters in Chicago target evictions, foreclosures

CHICAGO (Reuters) – About 150 protesters in Chicago marched to banks and government offices on Wednesday to demand a one-year moratorium on local home evictions and foreclosures, the latest in a series of demonstrations leading up to next week's NATO summit. The protesters performed a piece of street theater at Daley Plaza featuring a bank [...]


Foreclosures drop across Bay Area

Every step in the foreclosure process — from default notices to homes seized by banks — dropped across the Bay Area in April.


Foreclosure problem in Carpentersville? No, executive says, but village seeks study – Arlington Heights Daily Herald

Between March 2011 and April 2012, 1,034 Carpentersville homes fell into foreclosure, which is nearly 10 percent of the village’s housing stock of roughly 11,000 homes. A figure listing the total number of foreclosures in the village was not …


U.S. Workforce Unprepared for New Reality of Workplace Benefits, Survey on Long-Term Disability Reveals

Although medical problems contribute to roughly half of all personal bankruptcies and home foreclosures in the United States, many of the nation’s full-time workers have insufficiently planned for the risk of long-term disability, concludes a study released today by the U.S.


Oakland County: Foreclosure totals for April down more than 45 percent

Home foreclosures last month in Oakland County were down more than 45 percent from April last year, according to a press release issued by the county. Two hundred and ninety-six foreclosed homes were auctioned at Oakland County Sheriff’s Office deed sales last month compared to 541 for April 2011.


Columbia home foreclosures decline – The State

Home foreclosures in the Columbia area declined in the first three months of the year, bucking a trend seen in other major metropolitan areas of the state. But industry experts say another wave of foreclosures is on the horizon for the capital …


A $13.9-million dream house

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