Foreclosure.com today revealed a comprehensive menu of money-making affiliate tools and widgets that enable real estate agents and other website owners to integrate its dynamic nationwide foreclosure and investment property listings database into their websites.

Foreclosure.com, which partners with many of the largest names in the online real estate world, as well as individual Realtors® and small- to mid-sized online destinations, provides affiliates with small slices of customized code that they can add to their websites, which pulls content from its database of more than 2 million distressed real estate listings.

“Overnight, a local real estate agent can enhance his or her website with millions of monetized listings,” said Stephen Chip, Foreclosure.com Director of Business Development. “We provide our affiliates with an awesome selection of one-of-a-kind solutions that leverage our unrivaled data.”

Our creative suites of affiliate tools and solutions include, but are not limited to:

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Popular program returns after wildly successful campaigns in 2009 and 2010 awarded $18,000 in educational grants to financially-assist 10 students

Foreclosure.com today announced that it will once again reward five college students with scholarships who can best provide a solution(s) to its latest essay topic for 2011.

The subject of the Foreclosure.com Scholarship Program 2011 is as follows:

“You’ve acquired $150,000 in cash to be used specifically for a distressed real estate purchase. Outline a detailed strategy that ensures the maximum return on investment, whether it’s in terms of financial profit or personal satisfaction … or both.”

Foreclosure.com, which received thousands of entries from students during its scholarship programs in 2009 and 2010, will accept written essays/plans (800-word minimum, 2,000-word maximum) through its website (http://www.foreclosure.com/scholarship) from Jan. 1, 2011, to Dec. 1, 2011, which is nine months longer than the previous two programs.

Five winners will be selected at the conclusion of the contest and will share $9,000 in allotted scholarship funds. The top prize is a $5,000 scholarship and four $1,000 grants will be awarded to the runners up.

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Boca Raton, Fla. — Feb. 15, 2011 — Foreclosure.com today announced the winners of its 2010 scholarship program, which rewards five current college students with a total of $9,000 to put toward their higher educations.

More than 1,000 current college students nationwide answered the call during the 2010 Foreclosure.com Scholarship Program, submitting essays of 1,000 words or more that answered the following question:

“How can education at the high school level help avert and/or minimize a future foreclosure crisis?”

Kaitlyn Shumelda, a junior at University at Albany, State University of New York (Albany — SUNY) located in Albany, N.Y., however, was voted to the head of the class by our panel of judges, winning the $5,000 top prize.

“Receiving this scholarship is incredible,” said Kaitlyn. “Not only does it lift a big financial weight off my shoulders, but this amazing experience has taught me something very important.”

Kaitlyn went on to describe how she almost didn’t submit her winning entry, even after she had “put so much into it.”

“I just didn’t think I’d win,” she said. “But I figured I’d at least give it the good ‘ole college try, and I’m now so glad I did! I want to thank everyone at Foreclosure.com for this opportunity – it’s inspired me to do so more because now I know I’m capable of doing so much more. Thank you so much!”

The program, which ran from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 2010, also awarded four $1,000 scholarships to the contest semifinalists:

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Boca Raton, Fla. — Jan. 20, 2011 — Foreclosure.com today announced that it recently added thousands of short sale properties for sale to its industry-leading, nationwide database of more than 2 million distressed real estate listings.

To search for potential short sale homes for sale in your area visit http://www.foreclosure.com/short_sale/ today.

What is a short sale property?

A short sale is a home that is for sale for less than the mortgage balance owed to the lender. It essentially short circuits the foreclosure process, allowing the distressed homeowner to sell a home that he or she can no longer afford at a price that is in-line with current market values.

And while the short sale process is often considered time-consuming, clunky and difficult, Foreclosure.com Vice President James Houston explains that the listings offered through the website are already bank-approved and ready to sell fast.

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Foreclosure.com today announced that it recently added thousands of foreclosed homes for rent-to-own properties to its industry-leading, nationwide database of more than 2 million distressed real estate listings.

To search for potential foreclosed homes for rent to own in your area visit http://www.foreclosure.com/rent_to_own today.

Foreclosure.com already offers the most comprehensive, accurate and current collection of preforeclosure, short sale, foreclosure, Sheriff sale, foreclosure auction, bank repossessed (bankruptcy), HUD homes and tax lien listings in one convenient location.

Adding foreclosed homes for rent-to-own properties, according to company Vice President James Houston, was a natural progression that reflects a shift in the ever-changing housing market.

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