Foreclosures Reach Record In May

Yesterday we reported a projected record of foreclosure notices going out this year. Today according to RealtyTrac, bank repossessions, the final stage of the foreclosure process, climbed 44% from May 2009 to 93,777, the second consecutive record monthly climb.

“We’re nowhere near out of the woods,” Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac’s senior vice president for marketing, said in a telephone interview. [...]

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Foreclosure Inventory = 103 months

From The Wall Street Journal

 

In a piece from the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, LPS Applied Analytics estimated that foreclosures would create so much market supply that it would take 103 months to liquidate it.

As of March, banks had an inventory of about 1.1 million foreclosed homes, up 20% [...]

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