The Richmond area is out of the top-100 cities with the highest foreclosure rates in the country in the third quarter, according to a report being released this morning. It was No. 101 on a list of 203 metropolitan areas with populations of 200,000 or more studied by RealtyTrac, an online researcher. In all, 2,215 households, or one in every 230 households—0.44 percent of people with mortgages in the Richmond area—received a foreclosure filing from July through September.

U.S. total: 937,840 borrowers, one in every 136 households, up 22.5 percent
  Las Vegas, Paradise, Nev.: No. 1, 40,408 borrowers, one in every 20 households, up 53.62 percent
  Washington, Arlington, Alexandria: No. 46; 19,318 borrowers, one in every 110 households, up 9.25 percent
  Richmond: No. 101; 2,215 borrowers, one in every 230 households, up 89.97 percent

One lender attributed the recent rise in listings to the lifting earlier this year of moratoriums intended to give borrowers more time to work out loan modifications.

The number of foreclosure filings in Virginia rose 23.5 percent from June to July, as the foreclosure crisis escalated here and across the country. The statewide filings increased 11.5 percent in July from the same month a year ago, RealtyTrac reported yesterday. Filings include default notices, scheduled auction sales and bank repossessions.

The foreclosure problem in the Richmond area has gotten worse, according to a midyear metropolitan market report released this morning by RealtyTrac. More people here are having trouble paying their mortgages, although the actual rate of foreclosures in the region is better than the national average, the online researcher reported. One in every 144 households in the Richmond area, or 0.70 percent of all households—a total of 3,549—received a foreclosure filing from January through June, the online researcher reported.

RealtyTrac reported today that U.S. foreclosure activity rose to the highest quarterly total since the research company began tracking foreclosures in 2005. Foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossession, were reported on 880,829 U.S. properties in the second quarter, up 20.3 percent from the same three-month period a year ago, the research company reported.

January 2008: 3,975, up 480 percent
  February: 3,124, up 344 percent
  March: 3,871, up 321 percent
  April: 4,256, up 296 percent
  May: 4,130, up 281 percent
  June: 4,222, up 215 percent
  July: 4,209, up 159 percent
  August: 3,957, up 18 percent
  September: 4,613, up 164 percent

The number of U.S. households at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure rose 32 percent in April from the same month a year ago, according a report released today. More than 342,000 households—including 6,254 in Virginia—received at least one foreclosure-related notice in April, according to RealtyTrac Inc. The online foreclosure researcher reported that one in every 374 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing—the highest monthly rate since RealtyTrac began tracking foreclosures in January 2005.

Foreclosures continue to rise in Virginia. The monthly breakdown includes the number of filings and percentage increases from a year earlier:
  January 2008: 3,975, up 480 percent
  February: 3,124, up 344 percent
  March: 3,871, up 321 percent
  April: 4,256, up 296 percent
  May: 4,130, up 281 percent

Foreclosure activity in the Richmond area rose 69 percent from a year ago—worse than the state as a whole, but better than the national average, according to a report released this morning by an online foreclosure researcher. One in every 255 households here, or a total of 2,001, had trouble making their mortgage payments during the quarter, RealtyTrac reported.

U.S.: One in every 159 households, 0.63 percent of households, up 23.63 percent from a year ago.
  Richmond area: Ranked 96th, one in every 255 households, 0.39 percent of households, up 69 percent from a year ago.
  Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Newport News area: Ranked 92nd, one in every 241 households, 0.42 percent of households, up 132 percent from year ago.

Foreclosure filings nationwide have hit new highs, according to a report issued today by an online researcher. The number of filings—which includes notices of default and auction sales—posted the highest monthly and quarterly totals since RealtyTrac began tracking foreclosures in 2005.

U.S.: 803,489, or one in every 159 households, up 24 percent
  Virginia: 14,725, or one in every 222 households, up 12 percent
  Chesterfield County: 557, one in every 209 households, up 60 percent
  Hanover County: 99, one in every 379 households, up 80 percent
  Henrico County: 374, one in every 337 households, up 14 percent

Foreclosures continue to rise in Virginia. The breakdown by month, beginning with February a year ago through the same month this year, includes the number of filings and percentage increases from a year earlier:
  Feb. 2008: 4,187, up 483%*
  March: 4,933, up 368%
  April: 5,947, up 309%*
  May: 5,266, up 198%

Last year, 49,011 households in Virginia were in danger of losing their homes, up 201 percent from a year earlier, according to a report released today by RealtyTrac. In all, 1.5 percent of all households in the state received at least one foreclosure filing, less than the national rate of 1.8 percent, the online researcher of foreclosures reported.