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Pennsylvania
Quick Facts
- Judicial Foreclosure
Available: Yes
- Non-Judicial Foreclosure Available: No
- Primary Security Instrument: Mortgage
- Timeline: Typically 90 days
- Right of Redemption: No
- Deficiency Judgments Allowed: Yes
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In Pennsylvania,
lenders
may foreclose on a mortgage in default by using the judicial
foreclosure
process.
Judicial Foreclosure
In Pennsylvania, the lender must send a notice of intent to foreclose
to the borrower before any foreclosure proceedings may begin.
The notice of intent must be sent, by first class mail, to the
borrower,
at their last known address and if different, to the property secured
by
the mortgage. The notice should not be sent until the borrower is at
least
sixty (60) days behind in their mortgage payments.
In the notice, the lender must make the borrower aware that his or her
mortgage is in default and that it is their (the lender's) intention to
accelerate the mortgage payments if the borrower does not cure the
default within thirty (30) days. This means that the remaining balance
of the original mortgage will come due immediately.
If the borrower does not cure the default by paying the past due
amount,
plus any late charges that have accrued, within the thirty (30) days,
the
lender may then file a suit to try and obtain a court order to
foreclose
on the property.
If the court finds in favor of the lender and issues an order of sale,
the property will be sold at a Sheriff's sale under the guidelines
established
by the court. The borrower has the right to cure the default and
prevent
the sale at any time up to one hour before the Sheriff's foreclosure
sale.
Lenders have up to six months after the foreclosure sale to file for a
deficiency judgment. Borrowers have no rights of redemption once the
foreclosure sale is complete.
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