Foreclosure Starts Decrease 4%
Completed Foreclosures Also Decrease 5% from Last Month
By ATTOM Staff
ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, released its July 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 30,358 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — down 4% from a month ago but up 143% from a year ago.
“While it’s encouraging to see both foreclosure starts and completions drop off a bit in July, it’s also worth noting that there may be some seasonality impacting the numbers,” said Rick Sharga, executive vice president of market intelligence at ATTOM. “In eight of the last 10 years Q3 foreclosure activity has been lower than the previous quarter, so we might just be seeing a return to a more normal seasonal pattern of delinquencies and defaults.”
Delaware, Illinois and New Jersey had the highest foreclosure rates
Nationwide one in every 4,628 housing units had a foreclosure filing in July 2022. States with the highest foreclosure rates were:
» Delaware (one in every 2,127 housing units with a foreclosure filing)
» Illinois (one in every 2,334 housing units)
» New Jersey (one in every 2,564 housing units)
» Nevada (one in every 2,609 housing units)
» South Carolina (one in every 2,976 housing units)
Among the 223 metropolitan statistical areas with a population of at least 200,000, those with the highest foreclosure rates in July 2022 were:
» Elkhart, IN (one in every 1,592 housing units with a foreclosure filing)
» Davenport, IA (one in every 1,626 housing units)
» Fayetteville, NC (one in every 1,673 housing units)
» Cleveland, OH (one in every 1,757 housing units)
» Atlantic City, NJ (one in every 1,886 housing units)
Those metropolitan areas with a population greater than 1 million, with the worst foreclosure rates in July 2022 including Cleveland, OH were:
» Chicago, IL (one in every 2,082 housing units)
» Las Vegas, NV (one in every 2,190 housing units)
» Riverside, CA (one in every 2,431 housing units)
» Philadelphia, PA (one in every 2,519 housing units)
Foreclosure starts increase monthly in 21 states nationwide
Lenders started the foreclosure process on 21,428 U.S. properties in July 2022, down 4% from last month but up 226% from a year ago.
States that had at least 100 foreclosure starts in July 2022 and saw a monthly increase in foreclosure starts included:
» Michigan (up 42%)
» Massachusetts (up 39%)
» Iowa (up 26%)
» Wisconsin (up 25%)
» Indiana (up 22%)
“It appears that a few states are still catching up on processing foreclosures on loans that were seriously delinquent prior to the pandemic, which accounts for the year-over-year spike in foreclosure starts,” Sharga added.
“But early-stage delinquencies continue to be lower than normal, so once these older loans have re-entered the foreclosure process, it will be interesting to see if foreclosure starts fall off significantly.”
Those major metropolitan areas with a population greater than 200,000 that had the greatest number of foreclosures starts in July 2022 included:
» New York, NY (1,380 foreclosure starts)
» Chicago, IL (1,247 foreclosure starts)
» Los Angeles, CA (678 foreclosure starts)
» Miami, FL (666 foreclosure starts)
» Philadelphia, PA (652 foreclosure starts)
Foreclosure completion numbers decrease 5 percent from last month
Lenders repossessed 3,068 U.S. properties through completed foreclosures (REOs) in July 2022, down 5% from last month but up 27% from last year.
Counter to the national trend, those states that saw a monthly increase in REOs in July 2022, included:
» Maryland (up 147%)
» Hawaii (up 58%)
» North Dakota (up 38%)
» Massachusetts (up 38%)
» Michigan (up 27%)
States that saw the greatest number of REOs in July 2022, included
» Illinois (359 REOs)
» Pennsylvania (185 REOs)
» Ohio (184 REOs)
» Michigan (182 REOs)
» New York (167 REOs)
Those major metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) with a population greater than 1 million that saw the greatest number of REOs in July 2022 included:
» Chicago, IL (270 REOs)
» New York, NY (90 REOs)
» Philadelphia, PA (89 REOs)
» Detroit, MI (82 REOs)
» Birmingham, AL (66 REOs)
