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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The Second quarter foreclosure reports continue to roll in with the latest figures from Realty Trac released. One general statistic released by Realty Trac, a foreclosure reporting company based out of Irvine, California, has been appearing on hundreds of newspaper articles across the country.
According to all articles and taken directly from the Realty Trac foreclosure activity report, “one in every 171 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing during the quarter.”
Performing calculations and some further investigation, one could take the same information and present it in a way more favorable …

Since the beginning of the real estate downturn the media has been reporting some rather shocking headlines. Whether the headlines and the corresponding articles are based on truly shocking data or spun to sound more drastic is up to the reader to decide. The latest foreclosure report was released last Thursday, July 10, 2008.
Most of the headlines reflected an increase in foreclosures by 53 percent. An article written by Alan Zibel for the Associated Press, dated July 10, 2008, was titled, “US foreclosure filings surge 53 …