RealtyTrac

• Will Strategic Defaulters Be the Next Credit Union Market?

  By David Morrison  |  March 8, 2013

  An executive whose previous firm advised homeowners looking to walk away from their mortgages says credit unions and other financial institutions should consider many of those same homeowners as potential new mortgage borrowers.

• Distressed Real Estate Made Up Smaller Percent of Sales in 2011 3Q

  By David Morrison  |  January 26, 2012

  RealtyTrac says sales of foreclosed homes accounted for less real estate sales in the third quarter of 2011 from both the prior quarter and the year before.

• Tracking Firm Reports Foreclosures Down in 2011 – But Not Really

  By David Morrison  |  January 13, 2012

  Technically speaking, foreclosures were down in 2011, but that doesn't mean the housing market got healthy.

• Foreclosure Process Picking Up, RealtyTrac Numbers Say

  By David Morrison  |  November 10, 2011

  Large lenders seen correcting foreclosure processing errors, ending "rain delay."

• More Property Headed into Foreclosure, Firm Says

  By David Morrison  |  October 13, 2011

  RealtyTrac said initial default notices up 14% in second quarter vs. first.

• Foreclosure Uptick in August

  By David Morrison  |  September 25, 2011

  Banks appear to have begun picking up the pace of foreclosures on residential real estate in August, reducing the time before the housing industry works through the overhang of troubled properties, according to RealtyTrac.

• Banks Picking Up Pace of Foreclosures

  By David Morrison  |  September 15, 2011

  RealtyTrac seeing movement toward resolving overhang of troubled properties.

• Foreclosures, Distressed Properties, Still Make Up Large Part of Sales

  By Davd Morrison  |  August 25, 2011

  Distressed and foreclosed properties are still weighing on the market, but executive says market is working through the stockpile.

• Slowing Foreclosures Still Portend Long Crisis

  By David Morrison  |  August 11, 2011

  Tenth-straight monthly drop due to process hangups, loan modifications, RealtyTrac says.

• Housing Paradox: When Foreclosure Decline is A Bad Sign

  By David Morrison  |  July 28, 2011

  Drop in foreclosures due to backlog not market improvement, RealtyTrac says.