A real estate-owned (REO) foreclosure offers investors or potential homeowners the opportunity to secure a property under market value. REO properties have proven that they warrant the attention of ...

Foreclosure activity rose notably in 2025, according to the ATTOM Year-End 2025 Foreclosure Market Report, reflecting a ...

What is REO when it comes to real estate? It stands for real estate owned, and it’s a term you’ll see when a bank or lender takes ownership of a home after a failed foreclosure auction. When a ...

Mike Olsen has been handling and selling foreclosed houses – known as REO (or real estate-owned, meaning bank-owned) properties – since he got into real estate in 1982 as a 20-year-old for whom ...

Foreclosure starts on the rise nationwide Lenders started the foreclosure process on 289,441 U.S. properties in 2025, up 14 percent from 2024, up 213 percent from the pandemic-era low in 2021, but ...