Anjeanette Damon and Mollie Simon ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The former operator of one ...

In order to better understand the impact of investor purchases on existing homebuyers, we have written a new report, “We Buy Houses”: You Lose Out. This report looks at the differences in price and ...

Charles Carrier is accused of orchestrating a yearslong Ponzi scheme, bilking tens of millions of dollars from both wealthy ...

A new report from a Drexel University research lab finds that homeowners are often short-changed when they sell to wholesale investors like the people behind “We Buy Houses” billboards.

This is where a company advertising "we buy houses for cash" or that it buys homes "as is" could be worth looking into. However, this type of deal comes with a significant drawback. "If you sell ...

The company’s 1,100 “We Buy Ugly Houses” franchises will now be required to provide homeowners who sell to them with a simple disclosure. The disclosure provides a three-day window to ...

Dallas-based HomeVesters of America is the company known for its "We Buy Ugly Houses" slogan.(Max Erwin for ProPublica / Max Erwin for ProPublica) This story is being co-published with ProPublica.

Their investigation originally was published here. HomeVestors of America, the Dallas-based company behind the “We Buy Ugly Houses” ads, says it’s in the business of helping people.