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San Antonio foreclosed homes for sale and residential foreclosures in other parts of Bexar County reached a record-high total of about 16,000 units in 2009, based on public records and data from local foreclosure research firms. In addition to the 16,000 units, another 1,652 units have been notif...

Homes foreclosed in Colorado rose in November by almost 12 percent from November last year, but foreclosure sales dropped by 0.5 percent, based on data from the Colorado Division of Housing. A total of 2,802 foreclosures were posted in November, an increase from 2,506 postings in November 2008. F...

Tampa foreclosed homes for sale will be tracked by a city registry that will be set up after city officials approved an ordinance requiring banks and other property owners to register any property that they foreclose within ten days of filing their foreclosure actions and to maintain the properti...

Bank foreclosure cancellation efforts have been stepped up by mortgage lenders in California following pressures from lawmakers and Obama administration officials to modify more loans and to put more trial loan modifications into permanent modifications. In November, nearly 10,500 scheduled forec...

Hialeah foreclosures may drop if the reopening of the Hialeah Park Race Track and if the planned developments adjacent to and in conjunction with the park create jobs for a lot of Hialeah residents and people moving to the city. According to John Brunetti, owner of Hialeah Park, within weeks of h...

Bank foreclosed home listings are expected to grow further as the number of prime borrowers defaulting on their home loans continued to increase sharply, based on data from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller and Office of Thrift Supervision. According to the two agencies, the percentage of perfor...

Fort Lauderdale foreclosures in the condo sector will be contained through bulk purchases if a new legislative bill that would revise the liability of bulk buyers and would facilitate bulk buying in Florida is approved. To rejuvenate the distressed condo sector in Fort Lauderdale and in other par...

Bank foreclosure homes sale in Oregon benefits only holders of first mortgages, and not holders of second-mortgages, if distressed homeowners use a certain bankruptcy strategy to reduce or wipe out their total debts. As more Oregonian homeowners owe more than the value of their houses, more are g...

Queens bank foreclosures topped all other county filings in New York State for the ten-month period ended October this year. Of the over 58,200 foreclosure actions filed in New York State, a total of 10,521 actions were in Queens County. Bronx had 3,071 filings while Manhattan had 1,238. During t...

Chicago foreclosures have been surging in African-American neighborhoods, according to analysts working with the Woodstock Institute in Chicago. In the West Englewood and Englewood neighborhoods, where the large majority of residents are African Americans, the pace of foreclosure is much intensif...