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Rising home prices have helped slacken the pace of foreclosure starts, according to The Warren Group, which reported Tuesday that June foreclosure petitions were down 18.3 percent compared to last year. The 5,783 foreclosure petitions filed in the first six months of 2017 is 12.6 percent lower than the number in the first half of […]
For the third time in recent years, the city of Owensboro, Ky., has launched what it calls a “mass foreclosure,” taking aim at 33 properties to satisfy unpaid property taxes and property maintenance liens. The properties are all over the city, and some have unpaid taxes dating back as far as 2008. Foreclosure News
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Petitions to foreclose Massachusetts homes declined on a year-over-year basis in September, a possible sign that a huge backlog of delinquent mortgages is beginning to finally ease. The Warren Group reported this week that lenders in Massachusetts filed 958 petitions to foreclose during September, down 18.7 percent from the 1,179 filed in September 2015. Foreclosure […]
Housing experts are hoping that last month's year-over-year decline in foreclosure petitions is a sign that foreclosure volume is stabilizing. The Warren Group reported this week that lenders filed 1,032 petitions to foreclose during July in Massachusetts, down 1.1 percent from the 1,044 filed in July 2015. Foreclosure News
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Grace Ross of Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending and Esther Ngollu of Beverly testified Tuesday in favor of a bill that seeks to allow cities and towns to establish pre-foreclosure programs. BOSTON >> Arguing that the current rate of foreclosures is worse than anything Massachusetts has seen since the run up to the American Revolution […]