Headlines scream almost daily about soaring foreclosures, that more than 1 million homes were lost to foreclosure in 2008 and the number is expected to top 1.2 million this year. The good news in Las ...

In the last two years, private equity firms have spent more than $20 billion on single-family homes, according to a new report released Thursday by national housing activist group Right to the City ...

If you remember the turmoil of the global financial crisis, hearing that foreclosure activity is up might make your knees ...

Among the new, free sites are Bay Area Bank REO, Silicon Valley REO Group and Bay Area REO. Each displays bank-owned properties for sale, plus information about the process of buying an “REO,” which ...

Getting a bargain or reduced price on a home in today’s market seems like a long shot. But a bank-owned property may offer one way for a homebuyer to purchase an affordable home or a home in an area ...

Selling REO is big business these days; the firms that specialize in the business of managing, listing and selling bank-owned real estate assets have been flooded with new assets as foreclosures ...

The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and three of its member organizations have announced new evidence of housing discrimination by Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank. The civil rights groups allege ...

When we wrote about Kerry Deland in the January issue, she was stuck in limbo by "foreclosure-gate" (see When Home Prices Will Head Up). Last August, Deland, of St. Cloud, Fla., finally nabbed her ...

Not all distressed home deals are created equal. New data from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors (MAAR) indicates that bank-owned homes are being sold quickly, but that homeowners trying to ...