Foreclosure activity in September rose 21 percent from a year earlier but fell by double-digits from the prior month as some state laws slowed the foreclosure process, according to a monthly report by research firm RealtyTrac.
Foreclosure filings — default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — fell by 12 percent from August to 265,968 [...]

Florida’s housing market is far from recovery with both the foreclosure and delinquency rates in Central Florida increasing.
Foreclosure rates among outstanding mortgage loans were 5.5 percent in August, nearly three-fold compared to the 1.5 percent rate in August 2007, according to First American CoreLogic Inc.
The company based foreclosure rates on total outstanding mortgages instead of [...]

Home foreclosure rates in the Rio Grande Valley are the highest in the state of Texas. But as homeowners lose their properties, others benefit by buying and then reselling them. A local investor says although it is a foreclosure market, trying to sell the home he just renovated has become more difficult.
Ever since entering the [...]

The total number of foreclosure events - notices of default, notices of sale and lender purchases - in Maryland declined about 22 percent from April to June from the first quarter of 2008.
The change indicates new state laws - that require lenders to jump through more hoops and wait longer to take back a home [...]