May 13, 2009

QOTD:

“April was a shocker,” said Rick Sharga, a spokesman for RealtyTrac. “I would have bet on a dip because March foreclosures were so high.

Instead, filings inched up 1% from March and rose 32% compared with April 2008. There were 63,903 bank repossessions, the last stop in the foreclosure process. More than 1.3 million homes have now been lost to foreclosure since the market meltdown began in August 2007.