US DATA: RealtyTrac’s Mid-Year 2011 MSA U.S. Foreclosure Market
Report says “all top 10 metro areas with the highest foreclosure rates
in the first half of the year posted decreasing foreclosure activity
compared to the first half of 2010. California, Nevada and Arizona
cities accounted for all top 10 metro foreclosure rates and 15 of the
top 20 metro foreclosure rates in the first half of the year. Only one
Florida metro area posted a foreclosure rate among the top 20 – Cape
Coral-Fort Myers at No. 12 – in sharp contrast to the first half of
2010, when Florida cities accounted for nine of the top 20 metro
foreclosure rates nationwide. Also posting foreclosure rates ranking
among the top 20 were Boise City-Nampa, Idaho, Atlanta-Sandy
Springs-Marietta, Ga., Greeley, Colo., and Salt Lake City, Utah.”