North Carolina foreclosure filings are down 27.18 percent from last quarter, and down nearly 12 percent from the previous year. North Carolina ranked 36 among the 50 US states, with 8,178 foreclosure filings in the first quarter of 2011. The numbers were reported by RealtyTrac Inc.
One in every 521 North Carolina homes received a foreclosure filing during the first quarter. Nationally, one in every 191 homes received a foreclosure in the first quarter of this year.
There were 681,153 foreclosure filings on U.S. properties in the first quarter, which is a 27 percent decrease from the first quarter of 2010, and 15 percent down from last quarter.