A record 1.35 million homes were in foreclosure in the third quarter, driving the foreclosure rate up to 2.97%, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Friday.
That’s a 76% increase from a year ago, according to the group’s National Delinquency Survey.
At the same time, the number of homeowners falling behind on their mortgages rose to a record 6.99%, up from 5.59% a year ago, the association said.
This means that one in 10 borrowers in America are either delinquent or in foreclosure.
Many of those troubled borrowers are in California and Florida, which have among the highest delinquency rates in the nation. These states have about 93,000 and 90,300 of the foreclosure starts in the quarter
Illinois, is far behind with about 27,500 starts.
Source: CNN Money
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