Trends, opportunities, and what’s next in the distressed housing landscape
ATTOM’s Navigating the Future of the Distressed Market webinar brought together industry experts to deliver an in-depth look at the evolving dynamics of distressed properties in 2025. The discussion featured insights from Jennifer von Pohlmann, Sr. Director of Content and PR at ATTOM; Daren Blomquist, VP of Market Economics at Auction.com; and Sean Mooney, VP of Product at ATTOM. Together, they explored how foreclosure activity, economic conditions, and innovative data solutions are shaping today’s distressed housing environment and what these shifts mean for lenders, investors, and housing professionals.
Jennifer von Pohlmann – Setting the Stage with Market Context
Jennifer von Pohlmann opened the session by introducing ATTOM’s extensive property data solutions and explaining how this information fuels real estate transparency and innovation. She provided a detailed overview of foreclosure trends spanning the past two decades, illustrating the market’s transition from crisis to recovery to interruption and now stabilization. Highlighting ATTOM’s latest Q3 2025 data, she showed that foreclosure filings now range between 90,000 and 100,000 per quarter. These levels are consistent with a healthy, cyclical market rather than a downturn. Von Pohlmann also broke down foreclosure starts, completions, and average days to complete a foreclosure, noting that starts have been steadily rising but remain well below historic peaks, while completions (REOs) and processing timelines are stabilizing. She emphasized that current patterns reflect normalization rather than distress, as strong equity positions and improved loss mitigation continue to keep homeowners and lenders in balance.
Daren Blomquist – Economic Undercurrents and Distressed Market Momentum
Daren Blomquist followed with a comprehensive analysis of the macroeconomic environment influencing the distressed housing sector. Drawing from Auction.com’s Market Monitor, he pointed to widening cracks in the labor market, falling consumer sentiment, and decreasing savings rates as tailwinds for distressed volume, even as spending remains resilient. He noted that foreclosure starts have now surpassed pre-pandemic levels in half of major markets, with sustained growth in states like Texas, California, and Michigan. Blomquist detailed how rising insurance costs, student loan debt pressure, and increasing bankruptcy filings are adding to homeowner financial strain. He also explored the surge in pre-foreclosure sales, highlighting success stories where Auction.com’s transparent marketplace helped homeowners preserve equity and avoid foreclosure. Finally, Blomquist outlined the company’s five-year foreclosure forecast, projecting a steady, measured increase in distressed volume through 2026 as market conditions revert to pre-pandemic norms rather than signaling another crisis.
Sean Mooney – Data Solutions Powering Distressed Market Insight
Sean Mooney closed the webinar by spotlighting ATTOM’s comprehensive data products and delivery solutions designed to empower professionals tracking and managing distressed assets. He showcased ATTOM’s foreclosure datasets, which cover nearly 3,000 counties and 99% of the U.S. population, encompassing defaults, auctions, and REOs. Mooney explained how ATTOM’s data, organized within the Table of Data Elements, enables industry users across real estate, mortgage, insurance, and government sectors to identify opportunities, assess risk, and optimize decision-making. He also discussed flexible delivery options, including Snowflake, SFTP, S3, and Azure Blob, emphasizing how ATTOM’s AI-ready and analytics-friendly formats make property data more actionable. Mooney concluded by underscoring the critical role that accurate, accessible, and transparent data plays in navigating today’s evolving distressed market landscape.
About ATTOM
ATTOM powers innovation across industries with premium property data and analytics covering 158 million U.S. properties—99% of the population. Our multi-sourced real estate data includes property tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, environmental risk, natural hazard, neighborhood and geospatial boundary information, all validated through a rigorous 20-step process and linked by a unique ATTOM ID.
From flexible delivery solutions—such as Property Data APIs, Bulk File Licenses, Cloud Delivery, Real Estate Market Trends—to AI-Ready datasets, ATTOM fuels smarter decision-making across industries including real estate, mortgage, insurance, government, and more.
About Auction.com
Auction.com is the nation’s leading online marketplace for the disposition of distressed residential properties. The company goes beyond traditional disposition programs, offering tools and services that stabilize neighborhoods, expand homeownership, maximize sales, shorten the sales cycle, yield higher returns, mitigate risks, and elevate results at every stage of the asset lifecycle. With a nationwide marketing reach going to millions of potential buyers, Auction.com’s national footprint for both online and in-person auctions include all 50 states, as well as Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. For more information, visit Auction.com.
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