LOS ANGELES – Fewer U.S. homes are completing the foreclosure process and ending up repossessed by banks because investors increasingly are buying up properties when they go on sale at public auction.

Foreclosure can be a long process. It starts when a homeowner defaults on a mortgage and a bank or financial institution repossesses the home. And it ends when the bank sells the property to recoup ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Fewer U.S. homes are completing the foreclosure process and ending up repossessed by banks because investors are increasingly buying up properties when they go on sale at public ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lenders repossessed fewer U.S. homes in January, bringing the number of completed foreclosures down to the lowest level in more than six years. Even so, many states posted sharp ...