Follow Me on Twitter

Foreclosure Activity Increases In July; Down from a year ago

Dennis Norman

I remember, not that long ago, when 300,000 foreclosures in a month would have seemed unreal.  However, July now marks the 17th consecutive month that there have been foreclosure filings exceeding 300,000 for the month.

[...]

One in 78 Housing Units In U.S. In Foreclosure In First Half of 2010

Dennis Norman

According to a report released this morning by RealtyTrac there were 1,961,894 foreclosure filings in the first six months of 2010 on 1,654,634 housing units in the U.S. This reflects a 5 percent decrease from foreclosure activity for the prior 6 month period but is an 8 percent increase from the same [...]

Foreclosure Activity Drops 3 Percent in May; 15th Consecutive Month of Over 300,000 Foreclosure Actions

 

Dennis Norman

The good news is, foreclosure activity for the U.S. in May decreased by 3 percent according to a report released by RealtyTrac.  The bad news is, May marked the 15 th consecutive month where the overall foreclosure activity has surpassed 300,000 actions; that’s about 4 million foreclosures in the past 15 [...]

Foreclosure Activity Decreases 9 Percent in April

RealtyTrac® released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ for April 2010, which shows foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 333,837 U.S. properties during the month of April, a decrease of 9 percent from the month before and a 2 percent decrease from April, 2009. This is welcomed news [...]

Foreclosures Still On The Rise – Some Improvement in Hardest Hit Areas Though

RealtyTrac® released its  U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ for the first quarter of 2010, which shows foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 932,234 U.S. properties during the first quarter of 2010, an increase of 16 percent from the first quarter of 2009 (which, I should remind you, was [...]

Foreclosures in third quarter 2009 increase 23 percent from a year ago

Dennis Norman

Unfortunately the bad news on the US housing market just keeps coming.

This morning RealtyTrac® released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Reporttmfor the third quarter of 2009, which shows that foreclosure filings (default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions) were reported on 937,840 properties in the third quarter which represents a 5 percent [...]

Foreclosure activity finally decreases 6% in May

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

According to a report issued by RealtyTrac(R), foreclosure filings (default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions or REO’s) were reported on 321,480 U.S. properties for May.  This is a decrease of 6% from April but is still up nearly 18% from a year ago.

The states of Nevada, California [...]

Foreclosures continue at record rate; a new one every 13 seconds

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

According to a report issued by the Center for Responsible lending, the number of homes that have had foreclosure proceedings begun on this year broke the 1 million mark this past weekend.  The Center for Responsible lending  website has a rather depressing “foreclosure meter” that shows, in real time [...]

Foreclosures decrease 10% in January

By: Dennis Norman

According to a report this week by Realty Trac(R) there were 274,399 US properties in some stage of foreclosure during the month of January.  This represents a 10% decrease from December but is still an 18% increase over a year ago.  Do the math and it works out to a sobering 1 [...]