Foreclosure News

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Demerle & Associates

Jan 2026

U.S. Foreclosure Filings: EOY Report

Shout out to the team @ATTOM for their end-of-year report on U.S. foreclosure filings. See U.S. Foreclosure Activity Increases in 2025. Takeaways from the figures presented:

Looking at the last six (6) years of U.S. residential foreclosure filings:

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Demerle & Associates

Feb 2024

Court: Bankruptcy Code Can Stop Foreclosure Sales

In a decision that has sent ripples through the Massachusetts default servicing industry, in February 2024 the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts (Katz, J.) ruled that the Bankruptcy Code.

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Demerle & Associates

Jan 2024

Maine SJC: No Free House After Defective Foreclosure Notice

In January 2024, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court overruled in part its decision in Pushard and, in doing so, stopped the practice of “court-as-casino” that awarded free houses to defendant mortgagors.

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Demerle & Associates

Nov 2023

CT Supreme Court: Mortgage File Discoverable in Foreclosure

The Connecticut Supreme Court has held that, in a foreclosure action, a borrower defendant is entitled to discover the foreclosing mortgagee’s entire mortgage loan file.

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