After H. Steve Aderholt's Northwest Side house was posted for last December's foreclosure auction, the retired electrician got a knock at his front door from a man who offered to help him hold on to ...

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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 ...

Before the first bid, they look like a half-dozen county employees hanging around outside the courthouse on break. But then auctioneer Nikki Francis reads off a long list of foreclosed properties ...

Bruce Marks only half-jokingly calls himself a nonviolent bank terrorist. Last winter, Marks, who heads up the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, led several hundred people down the ...

Single-family homes with mortgages backed by government-sponsored mortgage-finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will now be protected from foreclosure through the end of the year, extending ...