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Buying foreclosed homes soared in popularity during the Great Recession as a wave of foreclosures hit the market and drove down prices nationwide.
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Mid-year: A total of 1,045,801 properties received foreclosure notices during the first half of the year, a two percent increase over the previous six months, but down 11 percent from the same period in 2011. 0.79 percent of all households were in some stage of foreclosure during the first half of 2012.
Getty By Christine DiGangi Foreclosures on U.S. housing units continue to decline, falling to a nearly 10-year low in January, according to real estate data company RealtyTrac. Last month, there ...
The alleged problems regarding foreclosure fraud were so widespread and popularized by the media that U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters announced that the United States House of Representatives subcommittee on housing issues will hold a hearing on November 18, 2010 to examine problems emerging in the mortgage servicing industry.
“Foreclosure floodwaters receded somewhat in 2010 in the nation’s hardest-hit housing markets. Even so, foreclosure levels remained five to 10 times higher than historic norms in most of those hard-hit markets, where deep fault-lines of risk remain and could potentially trigger more waves of foreclosure activity in 2011 and beyond.” [30]
[3] [4] The foreclosure crisis caused significant investor fear in the U.S. [5] A 2014 study published in the American Journal of Public Health linked the foreclosure crisis to an increase in suicide rates. [6] [7] One out of every 248 households in the United States received a foreclosure notice in September 2012, according to RealtyTrac. [8] [9]
Foreclosures on U.S. housing units continue to decline, falling to a nearly 10-year low in January, according to real estate data company RealtyTrac.