Fast-Track Foreclosure Process Coming to Maryland, is Pennsylvania Next?

Pennsylvania now has two neighbors that have passed fast-track foreclosure bills and the Keystone State is considering adding its own as a method to avoid a backlog of blighted properties. Pennsylvania's fast-track foreclosure process, which Barley Snyder attorneys continue to track, would allow lenders and servicers to obtain certification that a property is vacant and […]

Northeastern Pennsylvania Foreclosures Continue to Fall

More homeowners in Northeastern Pennsylvania are hanging onto their houses as the foreclosure rate again reached its lowest point since before the housing market crash, new data shows. The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton metro area's foreclosure rate in October 2016, the most current month available, was 1.44 percent among all outstanding mortgages, according to Irvine, Calif.-based CoreLogic, an […]