2025 Foreclosure Spike - What is Happening in the Housing Market
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Ken McElroy
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Foreclosures are rising again, climbing back toward 2019 levels — but today’s economic backdrop is far more fragile. In this video, we break down the data, the drivers, and why this slow-moving default cycle could reshape opportunities for both homeowners and investors
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| 0:00.0 | How's the business going? |
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| 0:25.9 | business.gov.uk.U.K. Eligibility criteria apply. Foreclosures are on the rise again and we're |
| 0:33.8 | going to talk about that today and how it compares to 2019 and if you should be concerned. |
| 0:39.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.7 | So after years of historically low foreclosures because of pandemic forbearance and stimulus, we are definitely seeing a rise in foreclosure activity. |
| 0:48.9 | It's not something that we should be like freaking out about yet. |
| 0:54.0 | Mm-hmm. But it's definitely moving the wrong |
| 0:56.9 | direction. Right. And that that you know what happens with everything is it starts off slow and then |
| 1:01.7 | all at once, right? That is normal. Yeah. And right now we're seeing 17% year over year increase in |
| 1:08.6 | foreclosures. And just in October alone, it went up to 19% year over year increase in foreclosures and just in October alone it went up to 19 |
| 1:12.5 | percent year over year so we it is taking a lot 20 percent almost 20 percent well increase |
| 1:19.0 | yeah right yeah like that's a fair amount right these are not small increments sometimes you see |
| 1:25.5 | these um you see people make these assumptions |
| 1:29.2 | based on something moving like one tenth of a percentage point or something about you know 20% |
| 1:34.5 | uh year over year is is something to watch yeah and you know if you look in 2019 you had |
| 1:41.6 | monthly filings from like 40 to 45 000 a month month. Right now, we're at 36,000 a month. So we are still lower than 2019. But, you know, with the rate of increase, you know, it is a bit concerning, you know, as we move closer to those numbers. What do you think is the reason? Like, what do you think's happening right now? |
| 2:01.9 | Well, I think right now what you have that you didn't have in 2019 is inflation in such a |
| 2:07.8 | squeezed economy. And we're going to be talking about this on our show, on our podcast on Thursday. |
| 2:13.9 | But, you know, Americans are dealing with a lot of affordability issues right now. |
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