How to Use foreclosure in a Sentence

foreclosure

noun
  • At the time of the foreclosure, the GBTC shares traded for $9.20 each.
    Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Now, with the house in foreclosure, someone called the city to check on her.
    Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2024
  • And Sylvia bought the studio out of foreclosure and gave it to us as part of our record deal.
    Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, the couple had lost their home to foreclosure and would be forced to move out.
    Jamie Yuccas, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The Aberdeen home, built in 1960, is facing the threat of foreclosure.
    Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023
  • If so, not paying the golf club dues can lead to foreclosure.
    Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Brien sold the windows as bills mounted and the house neared foreclosure.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Since then, the group has fought back with road shows and foreclosure of loans to try and soothe nervous investors.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The man who had just lost his home to foreclosure now had enough money to help his friends with their mortgages.
    William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Failing to pay, in the worst case scenario, could have led to lawsuits and foreclosures.
    Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • Court records show there was a foreclosure on the property.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Due to a family dispute, the house was lost to foreclosure.
    Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In other words, should the loan default, what would the property fetch in a foreclosure?
    Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The tour of the family's mansion comes weeks after the foreclosure was resolved.
    Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
  • He is scheduled to bring the foreclosure proposal to the City Council on Wednesday.
    oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The Cultural Park has been on the market since being purchased out of foreclosure more than a decade ago.
    Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Court records also show there was a foreclosure on the property.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The bank filed a lawsuit against building owner Vista Investment Group as part of the foreclosure process.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The property is now owned by a bank after foreclosure and has been boarded up.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In the 1970s, the family’s property was lost to foreclosure, Grimes said, and the Chandlers were forced to say goodbye to their horses, dogs and their ranch life.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • If the home goes into foreclosure, the lender holding the home equity loan does not get paid until the first mortgage lender is paid.
    Ivana Pino, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Nobody should get more than what they are entitled to in any foreclosure.
    Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • There may be widespread layoffs or a rise in home foreclosures, for instance.
    Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Diedrichs went into debt rebuilding the property, and soon lost the house to foreclosure.
    Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2023
  • In the case of properties sold at the county's tax foreclosure auction, that may be because of the low prices at which those properties sold.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The city acquired the building in 2011 through property tax foreclosure.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022
  • For one thing, the drop in foreclosure filings might be only temporary.
    Brittany Freeman, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2023
  • One in every 4,580 housing units had a foreclosure in November of that year.
    Susan Naftulin, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Those who have missed payments, are in foreclosure or are heading toward default will get help from the USDA.
    Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Citing court records, the Chicago Tribune reports the couple's home was in foreclosure.
    Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2022

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