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US foreclosure filings rise 26% in Q1 2026, ATTOM says

Foreclosure activity accelerated in the first quarter of 2026, with signs of mounting operational pressure for mortgage servicers and downstream vendors, according to ATTOM’s latest U.S. Foreclosure Market Report and insights from industry executives. While overall foreclosure volumes remain below pre-Great Recession peaks, starts, completions and real estate-owned (REO) inventories are climbing, timelines are shrinking […]

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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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US home flipping profits hit lowest level since 2008

The share of U.S. homes flipped by investors fell in the second quarter of 2025 while profit margins dropped to levels not seen in more than 15 years, according to new data from ATTOM. Flippers resold 78,621 single-family homes and condominiums between April and June, or 7.4% of all sales.That was down from 8.3% in

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US foreclosure activity continued to rise in first half of 2025, ATTOM says

Real estate data provider ATTOM on Thursday released its Mid-Year 2025 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 187,659 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — in the first six months of 2025. That figure is up 5.8% from the same period a year

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