Zombie Home Foreclosure Numbers Increase in 38 US States

Homes in Huntington Beach, Calif., on July 12, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesThe number of residential zombie foreclosures in the second quarter of 2026 marginally increased from the previous quarter, with such foreclosures rising in the District of Columbia and 38 out of the 50 U.S. states, real estate analytics company ATTOM said in a May 21 statement.“Out of the country’s 104.9 million residential properties, 245,376 were in the foreclosure process in the second quarter. Of those, 8,312 properties, or 3.4 percent, were ‘zombies,’ meaning the owners had abandoned the properties before the end of their foreclosure proceedings,” ATTOM said. “The second quarter zombie rate was slightly higher than the 3.3 percent rate posted in the first quarter.”