LOS ANGELES – Fewer U.S. homes are completing the foreclosure process and ending up repossessed by banks because investors increasingly are buying up properties when they go on sale at public auction.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lenders repossessed fewer U.S. homes in January, bringing the number of completed foreclosures down to the lowest level in more than six years. Even so, many states posted sharp ...

LOS ANGELES – The number of U.S. homes that got started on the path to foreclosure fell last year to a low not seen since before the high-flying days of the housing boom, the latest evidence that the ...

Doug Andrews never knows what a day will bring. As the co-owner of Neighborhood Resources, a business that clears out, cleans and secures foreclosed homes, Andrews said every day brings something new.

Foreclosure can be a long process. It starts when a homeowner defaults on a mortgage and a bank or financial institution repossesses the home. And it ends when the bank sells the property to recoup ...

Washington -- Frank Chapman is one determined man. His adversaries attacked him in front of judges and the government, saying he had a conflict of interest and was unqualified and should not, under ...

CME Group Inc. said the US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the registration of a new clearing house that will ...