The first bits of foreclosure data are starting to come through after the federal government’s foreclosure moratorium expired July 31 and the numbers are not as bad as some experts were predicting at the start of the moratorium. ATTOM, a real-estate data company, released its Q3 2021 U.S. Foreclosure ...
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