A decree of foreclosure and sale is a statement issued by a court indicating that a piece of property is to be sold when a mortgage has gone into default.

Foreclosure is back at the center of the U.S. housing story, as lenders step up efforts to reclaim properties from struggling ...

RealtyTrac released a report showing that as of June owners had vacated 167,680 foreclosure properties nationwide, representing 20 percent of all U.S. properties in the foreclosure process. These ...

The number of residential properties in the process of foreclosure is up 5% from Q4 and nearly 30% YoY. Among the pre-foreclosure properties, 8,141 are zombie foreclosures, up 5.4% from Q4 and 10.6% ...

Foreclosures aren't as big a part of the housing market as they were just after the recession, but they're still a sizable portion of homes sold across the U.S. Housing data site RealtyTrac found that ...