Despite the fact that most foreclosure listing companies reported a nationwide decrease in foreclosures and default filings, the media offered headlines donned with the usual negative perspective.
RealtyTrac seems to be the only major listing company that offered statistics for August. The foreclosure listing company reported a 1 percent decrease in filings with a 13 percent decrease in repossessions. ForeclosureS.com didn’t offer a report for the month presumably because they found an increase in fillings, as they have historically reported larger number of properties in foreclosure.
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With third quarter reports still trickling in, foreclosure research agencies continue to take varying approaches to how their foreclosure numbers are reported. One method is no less confusing that the next, especially when compounded with reporter bias.
Take the latest foreclosure statistics article published on December 5, 2008, from the website, CNNMoney.com. The article is titled, “Foreclosures soar 76% to record 1.35 million,” and is written by Tami Luhby. The article offers a totally different approach to presenting foreclosure statistics by providing the ‘default rate’. The ‘default rate’ is not to …

Third quarter numbers have been released to the press with yet again many articles offering more conflicting numbers. Depending on the source of the foreclosure data, most likely readers will see a variety of figures reflecting the current state of the foreclosure market.

The first of these articles comes from CNNMoney.com titled, “81,312 homes lost to foreclosure in September.” The article published on October 23, 2008 by Catherine Clifford offers figures from Realty Trac, an Irvine, CA based listing company.

As stated in the headline, there were 81,312 foreclosures during the …