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Almost 85 percent of large cities showed a decrease in foreclosure activity during the first six months of 2011 according to the Mid-year 2011 Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report released on Thursday by RealtyTrac. This includes the ten cities with the highest foreclosure rate among the 211 metropolitan markets covered by the report and all but one of the top 20. RealtyTrac 's report usually incorporates documents filed in all three phases of foreclosure. This midyear summary does not break out...

Could the end be near? There finally appears to be a developing trend of good news on the foreclosure front as filings of all types declined by two percent in May. This is now the eighth straight month that RealtyTrac's U.S. Foreclosure Market Report has shown a month-over-month drop and May filings were 33 percent lower vs. May 2010. Of course, the foreclosures that have caused such disruption to the market and heartbreak for millions of Americans are still occurring at levels that were never imagined...

Foreclosure activity hit a 40 month low in April, posting a decline in all types of filings for the seventh straight month according to data released Thursday by RealtyTrac. One in every 593 U.S. housing units was subject to some form of foreclosure filing during the month. During the recently ended first quarter of 2011 the ratio was one in 191 housing units. Filings were recorded on a total of 219,258 properties during the month, a 9 percent decrease from March and 34 percent below filings reported...

Despite a sizeable drop in the fourth quarter, sales of foreclosed properties again accounted for over a quarter of all single-family home sales in 2010. Sales of foreclosed homes represented almost 26 percent of all sales during the year, down from 29 percent in 2009. The discount buyers received for these homes was 28 percent off the average sale price of a non-foreclosed property compared to a 27 percent discount in 2009. The RealtyTrac Year and Q4 2010 U.S. Foreclosure Sales Report T M released...

Activity in all three stages of the foreclosure process declined in November, both from the previous month and the numbers one year earlier. Some of the change was seasonal, but most were a factor of the moratoriums declared by many servicers in October and November. ...

Foreclosure rates continued to decline in November but remain elevated, according to a survey by RealtyTrac, which saw a 7% decrease in U.S. foreclosures activity from October to November. Compared to twelve months ago, foreclosure activity is higher...

U.S. home foreclosures climbed 27% from the previous month's year-over-year results, according to RealtyTrac's August 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. There were 303,879 foreclosure filings in the month of August, a 12% increase from the prior...

RealtyTrac� an Irvine, California based firm that bills itself as the "leading online marketplace" released its 2007 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report on Tuesday which revealed that, during 2007, more than 2.2 million foreclosure filings were logged against 1.3 million properties nationwide.

While the whole year was bad, the month of December was even worse...

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