foreclose
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Large investment firms mopped up foreclosed homes after the 2008 housing crash, placing a floor on prices.
Virginia does not have a “right of redemption,” so homeowners are generally not permitted to repurchase the foreclosed property.
From MarketWatch
The Pungs won the appeal, but the county foreclosed on the home anyway to recover the alleged $2,242 tax debt.
The following December, a group of the company’s secured debtholders foreclosed on REV’s assets, putting them in a new entity called Omni Retail Enterprises.
Friday's decision "is solely to foreclose the death penalty as an available punishment to be considered by the jury," Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in her opinion.
From Barron's
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