RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties, has released its February 2010 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions—were reported on 308,524 U.S. properties during the month, a decrease of two percent from the previous month but still six percent above the level reported in February 2009. The report also shows one in every 418 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing in February.Read more

Specialized Asset Management LLC , a provider of asset marketing and disposition services to mortgage lenders, servicers and investors, has announced that it has partnered with RealtyTrac, an online foreclosure marketplace for default, auction and bank-owned REOs. The partnership gives additional market exposure for foreclosed property listings provided by Specialized Asset Management LLC, displaying them prominently to RealtyTrac’s three million unique monthly visitors.Read more

RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties, has released its January 2010 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions—were reported on 315,716 U.S. properties during the month, a decrease of nearly 10 percent from the previous month but still 15 percent above the level reported in January 2009. The report also shows one in every 409 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing in January.Read more

RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties, has released its Year-End 2009 Foreclosure Market Report, which shows a total of 3,957,643 foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and bank repossessions—were reported on 2,824,674 U.S. properties in 2009, a 21 percent increase in total properties from 2008 and a 120 percent increase in total properties from 2007. The report also shows that 2.21 percent of all U.S.Read more

RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties, has announced the launch of the RealtyTrac Community, a new and exciting social media platform that allows RealtyTrac’s millions of visitors to pose questions and exchange answers about real estate online — all in an open and transparent environment that is completely free for users.Read more

RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties, has released its October 2009 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and bank repossessions—were reported on 332,292 U.S. properties during the month, a decrease of three percent from the previous month, but still up nearly 19 percent from October 2008. The report also shows one in every 385 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing in October.Read more

RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties, has released its Q3 2009 Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report, which shows that cities in California, Florida and Nevada accounted for the 10 highest foreclosure rates in the third quarter among metro areas with a population of 200,000 or more.

But five of those Top 10 metro areas reported decreasing foreclosure activity from the third quarter of 2008, while many other metro areas with Top 50 foreclosure rates reported sharp increases in foreclosure activity.Read more

RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties, has released its August 2009 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions—were reported on 358,471 U.S. properties during the month, a decrease of less than one percent from the previous month but still an increase of nearly 18 percent from August 2008. The report also shows one in every 357 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing in August.Read more