Definition of foreclosure
: an act or instance of foreclosing; specifically : a legal proceeding that bars or extinguishes a mortgagor's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate
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People who fall behind on those payments may be at risk of facing foreclosure and losing their homes, according to the report.
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Homes fell into foreclosure after their owners lost jobs or couldn’t keep up with the higher payments on risky, adjustable-rate mortgages.
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First, there was confusion between he and a client over what his retainer covered in a foreclosure action.
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Manhattan residential properties are rarely lost to creditors, with only 27 new residential foreclosures in Manhattan in the first quarter, PropertyShark reported last month.
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The result was that foreclosure [rates] in minority communities far-exceeded that in white communities.
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Bankers turned to LNR, a Florida firm that handles distressed real estate debt as a precursor to possible foreclosure.
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And there's a foreclosure king running the Treasury Department.)
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In 2008, the state had 117,000 foreclosures, the third-highest number in the country.
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playLegal Definition of foreclosure
1 : a legal proceeding that bars or extinguishes a mortgagor's equity of redemption in mortgaged real property — see also deficiency judgment at judgment, redeem, right of redemption, statutory foreclosure, strict foreclosure 1
2 : the extinguishment (as under the provisions of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code) of the rights of a debtor in personal property subject to a security interest by judicial proceedings and especially by judicial sale — see also strict foreclosure 2
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