Natalie Campisi is a senior journalist who covers personal finance, balancing timely news with in-depth enterprise reporting. Her mission is to make complex financial issues clear and accessible for ...

Discover how many mortgage payments you can miss before foreclosure starts and learn about lender exceptions and housing market influences on this process.

Facing the possibility of foreclosure is one of the most stressful experiences a homeowner can endure. In California, where housing prices are high and ...

Carrie Pallardy has more than nine years of experience writing about a range of topics, including healthcare and cybersecurity. Her expertise includes personal finance, insurance, real estate, and ...

While the level of new delinquencies on residential mortgage loans has stabilized, the size of the “foreclosure pipeline” continues to grow. According to recent reports from RealtyTrac, just under two ...

A foreclosure notice doesn’t mean you automatically lose your home in 30 days; experts say there are viable ways to delay, and potentially prevent, the bank from taking a home. “One of the best ways ...

Cofounder of InstaLend, a non-bank real estate lender providing loans on single-family and multi-family properties for acquisition and rehab. With the moratorium on foreclosures likely coming to an ...

Six hundred days. That’s how long, on average, mortgage loans in the foreclosure process in New York have been delinquent. That’s the longest average in the nation, but not by much, according to LPS ...

A foreclosure occurs when a lender takes control over a property from a borrower who has failed to make timely payments. A foreclosure can damage your credit score and result in the loss of your home.

A decade ago, speculators in Florida were pumping up a huge housing bubble. "You couldn't go wrong," Tampa real estate attorney Charlie Hounchell says. In that overheated period from 2001 to 2006, ...