During the pandemic, an estimated 3.2 million foreclosure starts were prevented, along with the completion of approximately 1.5 million foreclosures.

Prepare for these three distressed disposition trends as the housing market downshifts and we enter 2023.

Most foreclosure buyers are local community developers renovating and reselling to owner-occupants. Daren Blomquist of Auction.com examines this market segment and others taking part in home auctions nationwide.

Daren Blomquist of Auction.com explains how smaller-volume local buyers can better compete with institutional investors, whose capital and resources have historically given them the upper hand at in-person foreclosure auctions.

Editor's note: This article appears in the April 2021 edition of DS News, available here. The number of mortgages in active forbearance in the first week of February fell below 2.7 million for the first time in 10 months, another ...

This story originally appeared in the October edition of DSNews, out now. A solid economic recovery and red-hot housing market helped drive the vacant “zombie” foreclosure rate to new lows in the first half of 2020, even as the coronavirus crisis threatens to trigger a resurgence ...

This story originally appeared in the August edition of DS News. Distressed home sales are square pegs that don’t fit well into the round hole of the retail housing market, a reality that has been highlighted by the recent economic ...

What lessons from the Great Recession’s foreclosure and home price data can be applied to more recent market trauma? This story originally appeared in the July edition of DS News.

A broader pool of foreclosure buyers means steady demand—even in stormy markets.

These are the lessons that clearly jump out when reviewing foreclosure and home price data in the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2008 as well as more recent, regional market trauma caused by natural disasters.