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Foreclosure auction volume reaches highest level since Q2 2020

Foreclosure auction volume in the fourth quarter of 2025 rose 48% from a year ago, reaching the highest level since the second quarter of 2020, according to Auction.com‘s Q4 2025 Auction Market Dispatch report. Volume remained 39% below the level seen in Q1 2020, just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent […]

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Distressed property auctions outperform traditional REO sales

Auction.com released its 2025 Disposition Strategy Report on Wednesday, showing that distressed property sales at auction have increasingly outperformed traditional retail real estate sales over the past two years. The report analyzed more than 390,000 distressed property dispositions from January 2018 through September 2025, using Auction.com data and public records. Estimated net proceeds for auction

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Meet the Warren Buffets of the 2025 housing market

Experienced auction buyers expect to buy more this year, but at lower prices. Meanwhile auction sellers are expecting more foreclosures with less equity. Despite the tariff-triggered uncertainty hovering over the economy in recent months — or possibly because of it — experienced buyers of distressed properties at auction have remained remarkably optimistic about their property

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