If you’re falling behind on mortgage payments — or thinking about buying a distressed property — you may be wondering: What does pre-foreclosure mean? Simply put, pre-foreclosure is the early warning ...

The great promise of short sales and other distressed pre-foreclosure sales as a foreclosure alternative is most fully realized in a competitive and transparent online auction marketplace, according ...

Selling pre-foreclosure is often the best option for distressed homeowners who don’t qualify for any loss mitigation programs, but those homeowners are understandably hesitant to choose that option ...

Foreclosure activity rose notably in 2025, according to the ATTOM Year-End 2025 Foreclosure Market Report, reflecting a ...

229,864 residential properties in the U.S. are in the process of foreclosure in the first quarter this year, up 3% from the previous quarter and up 31% from the first quarter last year. Among those ...

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Foreclosure starts — which is when the first public foreclosure notice happens — have reached pre-pandemic levels nationwide, with lenders starting the foreclosure process on 23,952 US properties in ...

Flagstar Bank has filed four separate pre-foreclosure actions against more than half of Pinnacle Group’s residential portfolio over a group of loans totaling more than $600 million, according to ...