The Fast Home Help Real Estate Blog

While many states are steadily recovering from the housing market crash, Maryland is one of several that is facing a foreclosure epidemic.

As a homeowner facing foreclosure, you need to be as informed as possible about the situation you find yourself in.  Here are five things you should know about foreclosure.

More than one million homeowners received checks representing their share of a $3.6 settlement ten banks agreed to pay for alleged foreclosure abuses.  Unfortunately, some of the checks bounced.

Between 2008 and 2012, there were more foreclosures in the state of California than in any other state during this span.  In February 2013 alone, more than 18,000 California homes were subject to foreclosure actions.

The Responsible Homeowner Refinancing Act of 2013 could, if passed, potentially allow millions of homeowners to save thousands of dollars each year.

Cash home sales reached a record high in California in 2012, according to San Diego property information provider DataQuick.