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Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 | 9 p.m.
Foreclosure filings in Las Vegas and the rest of Nevada dropped significantly in November but continue to outpace the same month last year by more than 20 percent.
California-based RealtyTrac released its monthly report Wednesday that showed the state’s foreclosure filings fell 20 percent between October and November. Las Vegas’s numbers fell 19 percent in the same period.
Despite the drop, foreclosure filings rose 22 percent over November 2009 in Nevada and 21 percent in Las Vegas.
What happened in Nevada mirrored the rest of the nation, where foreclosures fell 21 percent from October to November. RealtyTrac said that’s the fewest number of foreclosure filings since February 2009.
The firm attributed the decline to a seasonal fall off and fallout from controversy over lenders not ensuring their foreclosure documents were properly vetted. That caused some lenders to revamp their procedures on their filings.
Nevada has led the nation in the rate of foreclosure filings for 47 consecutive months, dating to January 2007. The state had one filing for every 99 households, besting second place Utah, which had one filing for every 221 households.
Utah was followed by California, Arizona and Florida.
Nevada had 4,700 notices of default issued in November for late payments, 4,904 notices of a trustee sale and 1,767 homes repossessed.
California-based CoreLogic reported this week that 71.1 percent of residential properties in Las Vegas are underwater — meaning owners owe more on their mortgages than the homes are worth. Another 3.7 percent were near negative equity, the firm reported.
Can't we all agree that no news journalist needs to EVER define the term "under water" again? If readers don't know what it means they can look it up.
spin it buck spin it...
tell you what...
if you want to educate the citizens of las vegas...
do some digging into the shadow inventory...
now that would help paint an accurate picture...
dig buck dig...
just a blip on the radar.
That "drop" was with a self-imposed moratorium by many of the large banks, so it was not a drop at all.
Yeah Leric, market manipulation has become as common, as sunsets.
Amazing that the oil company got away with that $4+ per gallon fraud to produce record profits for what...2008, 9?
But there is more bad news here, I'm afraid.
Looks like no one is giving houses for Christmas presents, this year. LOL
2011 should be better with all of these brilliant solutions that the politicians and corporate gangsters are devising.
That was a joke with no LOL, though.
I cannot believe I'm still seeing people buying up homes back in August and now trying to sell them for a "profit"...They're still out here, and the lenders are still out there offering homes to people UNQUALIFIED to be in one...Has nothing changed? Where are ALL out elected officials? They ALL should be on top of the scams and putting lids on new construction and a ton of other things until the house market settles down. I have yet to hear anyone say anything about the housing,jobs,bringing in major companies,expanding the tax base.Did all the officials get up and leave and...turn the light off on us?....So this "Big Drop"...doesn't look so BIG after all