Gov. Tony Evers has banned landlords throughout Wisconsin from evicting tenants and ordered lenders statewide to halt foreclosure actions for 60 days, according to an emergency order issued Friday.

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Wisconsin foreclosure rates are the lowest the state has seen in nearly two decades, according to a researcher who tracks foreclosures.

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Research shows that Wisconsin's southeastern counties have the highest eviction rates in the state.

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Two proposed bills in Wisconsin would change how sheriff's sales of foreclosed properties are conducted.

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An 11-year-old girl from western Wisconsin is saving for college by flipping houses.

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The state Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit alleging a South Carolina company tricked Wisconsin residents into renting uninhabitable properties.

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The event will be held from May 15 to 17 next year at the Wisconsin Center and will include 60-plus sessions highlighting work meant to deal with vacant properties in places throughout the country, including Milwaukee.

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Officials with the city of Milwaukee and a mortgage company are celebrating the success they've had so far in both preventing residents from foreclosing on their homes and from further creating neighborhood blight.

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Hundreds of people with hopes of buying a city-owned foreclosed property in Milwaukee for $1 were disappointed to learn the housing initiative was designed for developers.

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Mortgage foreclosures that drove some Wisconsinites from their homes during the economic recession have dropped to levels not seen since the 1990s, according to economists who track the real estate market.

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