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Adams County keeps $370 million in loans from foreclosure

“The team of housing counselors we have here in Adams County have been working diligently with homeowners across the county and with lenders across the country to insure the impact from this current foreclosure crisis is reduced as much as possible,” Don [...]

Case-Shiller: Denver No. 5 in December

“If you look at the worst foreclosure markets in Adams, Denver and in Arapahoe counties, those markets have healed,” Mike [...]

Colorado foreclosures: Hopeful signs, but crisis isn't over

“We’re making good progress,” Ryan [...]

Pittman named chair of Aurora Economic Development Council

“In his tenure, Ray Pittman has been in the middle of some of Colorado’s most notable and prestigious developments and mixed-use projects,” Wendy [...]

Foreclosures growing in Denver-area suburbs

“I guess we thought they just couldn’t go any higher,” Dianne [...]

Foreclosures soar 63 percent in third quarter

“These are some pretty big [...]

More than 12,000 foreclosures hit Colorado in second quarter

Foreclosure filings in Colorado topped 12,000 during the second quarter, shows a state report released today.  Both  new foreclosure filings and completed foreclosures grew 15 percent above first quarter totals, according  to the report by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs’ Division of Housing.

New foreclosure filings reached 12,135 during the second quarter for a mid-year [...]

Examples of public trustee auction sales

The three-year-old   ranch-style, custom-homes has 2,674 square feet, four bedrooms,  and sits on nine acres in Brighton.

It had $541,000 in debt on it, when it sold about a week ago at an Adams County Public Trustee Auction for $399,000, creating a deficiency, or the amount owed the bank, of $142,002.

Another home, a four-bedroom, three-bedroom homes [...]

Foreclosure investing hot

Outside investors with cash or lines of credit, are increasingly picking up foreclosed homes at public trustee auctions.

The auctions are the end of the line for people who have unfortunately lost their homes during the foreclosure process.

A second-quarter study by Adams County Public Trustee  in Adams County found that a large number of banks are [...]

Adams County: Outside bidders buy 475 percent more foreclosures

Outside bidders purchased 115 foreclosed homes from the public trustee’s office in the second quarter, a 475 percent increase from the 20 sales in the second quarter of 2008, a whopping 475 percent increase.

The report by Adams County Public Trustee Carol Snyder also found that the number of bankruptcies during the second quarter of Adams [...]