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After the housing crash of 2008, Blackstone began buying up large numbers of single-family homes that banks had foreclosed upon and turning them into rentals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2023

It was “a wildly improbable charge,” Mr. Browder says, “brought under pressure from the Russian bank that had foreclosed on them.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2018

Between 2011 and 2015, Wayne Country had foreclosed on nearly one in every four homes in Detroit for nonpayment of property taxes.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2017

The same day he sought bankruptcy protection, his five-bedroom home on Towlston Road, on which a bank had foreclosed, was sold at auction for $578,000.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2016

The mortgage on the farm could not be paid, even the interest had fallen far behind, and Squire Skinflint had foreclosed.

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)