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Foreclosure activity was up 5 percent from the previous month and 25 percent from a year ago in October, but it might have been up much more if not for recent state legislation that has at least temporarily lowered the number of new initial foreclosure...

Scanning the Southern California Multiple Listing Service (MLS) last week, the one thing that stands out is the growing number of short sales. Last year, you rarely saw the phrase “short sale” in the MLS property description. Today, approximately 10 percent...

The prognosis for the U.S. economy is not too rosy these days, so it comes as no surprise that some people are taking matters into their own hands and literally going to the extreme when faced with a foreclosure scenario.

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A last-minute pre-foreclosure sale last week allowed actor Don Johnson of television's "Miami Vice," to avoid foreclosure on his Aspen, Colo., estate, according to an article in the Aspen Daily News . "Don Johnson may have saved his Woody Creek ranch...

If you want to know how the 2008 presidential election was won you need to look no further than the nation's biggest foreclosure centers. Seven of the top 10 foreclosure states voted Republican in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, while three...