Top 15 Markets to Buy Short Sales, REOs

After assessing over 900 markets across the country, RealtyTrac put together a list of the top 15 markets for short sale and REO purchases for the year.

20 Most Expensive and Cheapest Markets for Foreclosures

There's a reason it's often the privileged who are flitting off to beach homes along the sandy coast of California: It's really expensive to own a home near the ocean. (Location, location, location comes with a high price, after all.) So you think yo

20 Most Expensive and Cheapest Markets for Foreclosures

There's a reason it's often the privileged who are flitting off to beach homes along the sandy coast of California: It's really expensive to own a home near the ocean. (Location, location, location comes with a high price, after all.) So you think yo

Home Buyers Are Back, But Where Are the Houses?

The first official day of Spring may still be 20 days away, but the Spring housing market is already underway. Buyer traffic is rising along with home prices, but one traditional Spring phenomenon is sorely absent: rising supply.

Home Buyers Are Back, But Where Are the Houses?

The first official day of Spring may still be 20 days away, but the Spring housing market is already underway. Buyer traffic is rising along with home prices, but one traditional Spring phenomenon is sorely absent: rising supply.

Home Buyers Are Back, but Where Are the Houses?

The first official day of Spring may still be 20 days away, but the Spring housing market is already underway. Buyer traffic is rising along with home prices, but one traditional Spring phenomenon is sorely absent: rising supply. The raw number of ho

Struggling Homeowners Turned to Short Sales in 2012

Struggling homeowners increasingly turned to short sales to get out from under mortgage debt last year. There were nearly three times as many short sales as there were sales of foreclosed homes in 2012, according to RealtyTrac.

Distressed Property Prices Rise on Strong Demand

Distressed property prices are rising on the back of strong investor demand and limited inventory, RealtyTrac said in a report released Thursday.

Foreclosed Property Sales Jumped 31% in Chicago Area Last Year

Sales of foreclosed properties in the Chicago metropolitan area rose 31 percent in 2012 from a year earlier to 43,178 homes while falling nationally, according to a report from RealtyTrac.

Treasure Coast Sees Increase in Non-foreclosure Short Sales

More proactive short sales of homes before they enter the foreclosure process helped reduce foreclosures on the Treasure Coast, RealtyTrac’s Year-End U.S. Foreclosure & Short Sales Report said.

Short Sales Surge Before Foreclosure, But Take Long

Sales of foreclosed homes by lenders are so 2012. Short sales are the hot 2013 real estate trend.

2012’s Foreclosure Sales Lowest in Five Years

While 2012 had the fewest foreclosure-related sales of homes since 2007, levels remained far higher than before the bursting of the housing-market bubble, according to data released Thursday.

Foreclosure, Short Sales are 43% of U.S. Home Sales in 2012

Foreclosure-related sales and non-foreclosure short sales accounted for 43% of all U.S. residential sales last year, according to market researcher RealtyTrac.

One Third of NJ Home Sales in 2012 Aas of Distressed Property

Distressed home sales in New Jersey, including foreclosure sales, came to about one-third of New Jersey sales in 2012, RealtyTrac said

RealtyTrac: Foreclosure Deals Drop as Banks Approve More Short Sales

Short sales of U.S. homes, where the price is less than the amount owed, outnumbered foreclosure deals in the fourth quarter as lenders accelerated efforts to dispose of troubled properties, according to RealtyTrac.

Short Sales Surge Before Foreclosure, But Take Long

Sales of foreclosed homes by lenders are so 2012. Short sales are the hot 2013 real estate trend.

Short Sales Surge Before Foreclosure, But Take Long

Sales of foreclosed homes by lenders are so 2012. Short sales are the hot 2013 real estate trend. Regulations and reprisals from the real estate bust are making earlier short sales — selling a property for less than the amount owed — more attractive

RealtyTrac: Foreclosure Deals Drop as Banks Approve More Short Sales

Short sales of U.S. homes, where the price is less than the amount owed, outnumbered foreclosure deals in the fourth quarter as lenders accelerated efforts to dispose of troubled properties, according to RealtyTrac.

Foreclosed Property Sales Jumped 31% in Chicago Area Last Year

Sales of foreclosed properties in the Chicago metropolitan area rose 31 percent in 2012 from a year earlier to 43,178 homes while falling nationally, according to a report from RealtyTrac.

One Third of NJ Home Sales in 2012 Aas of Distressed Property

Distressed home sales in New Jersey, including foreclosure sales, came to about one-third of New Jersey sales in 2012, RealtyTrac said