US Foreclosure Information

As part of ongoing efforts to help homeowners avert foreclosure, Arapahoe County has teamed with the nonprofit Brothers Redevelopment to host their second Foreclosure Prevention Open House next week.

The Obama administration unveiled an expansion of its $75 billion foreclosure prevention plan yesterday, providing new subsidies to mortgage lenders and investors.

The Diocese of Norwich’s Catholic Charities arm and the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority will hold foreclosure intervention and prevention workshops in May.

The Journal has a good story today reporting that some big banks are ramping up their foreclosure machines again after a temporary pause. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all say they have increased foreclosure activity in recent weeks.

Cook County Circuit Court is delaying foreclosure actions against some homeowners as it tries to work through an ever-growing backlog of cases.

U.S. foreclosure filings rose to a record in the first quarter as employers cut jobs in the recession and temporary programs to delay action on defaults came to an end, RealtyTrac Inc . said.

Foreclosure filings dropped in the Washington area in the first quarter from a year earlier, bucking a national trend that saw a 24 percent overall increase.

The number of Pennsylvania homes entering the foreclosure process reached a four-year high last month. New figures out this week from RealtyTrac Inc., a foreclosure listing firm, show foreclosure filings in Pennsylvania jumped nearly 18 percent from February to last month.

Utah has about 12,000 homes in foreclosure, according to the foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. But with nearly 1 million housing units in the state, that number represents a relatively small problem.