Bay area homeowners continue to struggle to make their mortgage payments and are increasingly losing their homes to foreclosure, according to the California-based research company RealtyTrac. ...more

July 25, 2008

According to one of Sen. John McCain's campaign advisers, America has become "a nation of whiners." ...more

July 16, 2008

TAMPA - Floridians continue to struggle to keep their homes, according to a report released today by California-based RealtyTrac. ...more

July 10, 2008

Across the country, people are losing their homes. Banks and lenders are taking them back in historic numbers. As the headlines have shouted for months, the Bay area has earned the distinction of having one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation during the past year. It's almost twice the national average. But the steady drumbeat of numbers doesn't show the human toll. ...more

June 27, 2008

To gas prices, foreclosure rates and the cost of rice, add this rising economic indicator: the number of tips to the police from people hoping to collect reward money. ...more

May 18, 2008

The Bush administration and six large mortgage lenders unveiled a plan Tuesday to offer 30-day reprieves to some homeowners facing foreclosure. ...more

February 13, 2008

Brian Griffith lost his job as a middle management real estate executive last September because of the stagnant housing market. ...more

February 3, 2008

The house was ravaged - its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull. ...more

January 30, 2008

We're No. 2 in the nation. And while that sounds good, it's not. Florida ranked second in the country for its 2007 foreclosure rate, according to data released Monday from Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac, which monitors foreclosure activity. ...more

January 29, 2008

K-BAR RANCH - Even with the subprime mortgage crisis and record-high foreclosure rates, area builders have faith in New Tampa's new home market. ...more

January 3, 2008