U.S. Foreclosure Activity Increased In 2025

ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property data, and real estate analytics, released its Year-End 2025 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 367,460 U.S. properties in 2025, up 14 percent from 2024 and up 3 percent from 2023 but down 25 percent from 2019, before pandemic-related disruptions altered housing market dynamics.

Foreclosure filings in 2025 were also down 87 percent from a peak of nearly 2.9 million in 2010.

Those 367,460 properties with foreclosure filings in 2025 represented 0.26 percent of all U.S. housing units, up slightly from 0.23 percent in 2024 and down from 0.36 percent in 2019 and down from a peak of 2.23 percent in 2010.

States with the worst foreclosure rates in 2025 were Florida (1 in every 230 housing units with a foreclosure filing); Delaware (1 in every 240 housing units); South Carolina (1 in every 242 housing units); Illinois (1 in every 248 housing units); and Nevada (1 in every 248 housing units).

Among 225 metropolitan statistical areas with a population of at least 200,000, those with the worst foreclosure rates in 2025 were Lakeland, FL (1 in every 145 housing units with a foreclosure filing); Columbia, SC (1 in every 165 housing units); Cleveland, OH (1 in every 187 housing units); Cape Coral, FL (1 in every 189 housing units); and Atlantic City, NJ (1 in every 192 housing units).