At a time when for-sale inventories remain constrained, a growing number of vacant homes are being held off the market nationwide. The bulk of these 3.8 million vacant homes are bank-owned properties or homes that are in badly need of repair. Some of these abandoned homes, known as “zombie foreclosures,” were abandoned by their owners before the foreclosure process was finished. RealtyTrac reports that in the second quarter there were about 127,021 “zombie foreclosures,” which numbered at 24 percent of all active foreclosures.
Precipitation may brighten Colorado River’s future, says modeling study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of Colorado at Boulder The Colorado River’s future may be a little brighter than expected, according to a new modeling