July Foreclosures

Submitted by Rich Toscano on August 9, 2007 - 3:11pm

2,033 San Diegans went into default on their mortgages in July. This is up 19 percent from June and up 157 percent from July 2006. Even adjusting for regional growth, as the blue line on the accompanying graph indicates, the rate of default absolutely dwarfs anything we saw during the early-1990s recession and housing bust.

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What a coincidence - The
Submitted by Bugs on August 9, 2007 - 3:34pm.

What a coincidence - The number of sales for attached and detached homes through the MLS for the month of July is 2,050 as of this minute (3:26 PM).

Monthly foreclosures probably have more noise in them than monthly sales volume. Still, it kinda makes you wonder what happens if/when the number of foreclosures per quarter exceeds the number of sales.

Okay, I'll admit it: I not REALLY wondering what happens - I've already got a pretty good idea.

As many homes have more than
Submitted by pgsandiego on August 9, 2007 - 3:52pm.

As many homes have more than one mortgage, does each house get counted twice (or more) for NOD/NOT as they're defaulting on multiple mortgages?

I've been wondering how much
Submitted by no_such_reality on August 10, 2007 - 10:34am.

I've been wondering how much of the banks foot dragging on liquidating the REOs is due to staffing and how much is intentional to prop up their balance sheet?

I quickly eyeball Countrywide's assets and liabilities and I wonder if their actual liquidation of the bank REOs would toss their numbers enough to drive them to BK?

N_S_R I think you may be on
Submitted by toots on August 10, 2007 - 11:45am.

N_S_R

I think you may be on to something there. Maybe they're not being completely honest about their liability..........

"As many homes have more
Submitted by DaCounselor on August 13, 2007 - 5:50pm.

"As many homes have more than one mortgage, does each house get counted twice (or more) for NOD/NOT as they're defaulting on multiple mortgages?"
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That's my question as well.

Base on CNN's foreclosure
Submitted by AN on August 14, 2007 - 2:15pm.

Base on CNN's foreclosure rate article, click here, San Diego is ranked #23 in the nation with 1 foreclosure filing in every 75 household.