The pros, cons of buying a house in foreclosure
When a homeowner can't make his mortgage loan payments and the lender repossesses the property, the home becomes foreclosed and is typically available for sale soon after.
When a homeowner can't make his mortgage loan payments and the lender repossesses the property, the home becomes foreclosed and is typically available for sale soon after.
Properties sold at the Boulder County Public Trustee foreclosure auction for Feb. 22, 2017. The listing shows: property address; highest bidder; amount owed; sale bid. Foreclosure News
When Congress sought to make sure that abuses by the financial industry that put our economy on the brink of collapse would never be repeated, it created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Since its founding in 2011, the CFPB has delivered resoundingly, providing $ 12 billion in relief to 29 million consumers wronged by banks…
In May, sales of previously-owned homes slumped, the second month in a row of declining sales . The National Association of Realtors, which tracks those sales, pointed to the same culprit it's blamed for the past few years: not enough supply of homes to buy. Foreclosure News
The faded white 15,000-square-foot former Save-A-Lot building just a block west of Northside's bustling business district has been empty and boarded up for more than four years. The group asked Cincinnati City Council Dec. 11 to chip in $ 515,000 so it can buy the building at 4145 Apple St. and make it a contributing…
“We haven't seen this many tax foreclosures in American history since the Great Depression,” says one scholar, regarding Detroit. Yet some signs of hope are emerging. Foreclosure News
Each buyer is required to live in the home for five years and renovate it within the first year. Owners cannot tear the houses down or rent them out. Foreclosure News