Monday, April 9, 2007

Virginia Foreclosures Update

As of today I'll start listing just the foreclosures by Northern Virginia counties that are considered "active" at www.foreclosure.com. When we compare numbers in the future, these will be more accurate than the numbers foreclosure.com puts out as "foreclosures," when many of those are listed as "inactive". A number of these "active" listings can be found on the MLS if they're being sold by the institutions holding the mortgages.

"Active" Foreclosures 04/09/2007

Arlington: 8
Fairfax: 183
Loudoun: 116
Prince William: 255
Frederick: 24
Fauquier: 11
Culpeper: 18
Stafford: 51

Numbers for the whole Commonwealth of Virginia, including "inactives".

04/09/07
Foreclosures: 2,403
Preforeclosures: 1
Bankruptcies: 9,844

04/02/07
Foreclosures: 2,237
Preforeclosures: 1
Bankruptcies: 9,811

03/25/07
Foreclosures: 2,018
Preforeclosures: 1
Bankruptcies: 9,508

03/18/07
Foreclosures: 1,895
Preforeclosures: 1
Bankruptcies: 9,449

03/16/07
Foreclosures: 1,578
Preforeclosures: 1
Bankruptcies: 9,358

02/20/07
Foreclosures: 1,344
Preforeclosures: 19
Bankruptcies: 9,253

01/09/07
Foreclosures: 1,054
Preforeclosures: 81
Bankruptcies: 8,776

3 comments:

spunky said...

Facinating yet scary info Harriet! Keep it coming! Thanks for your hard work!

MadMonkey said...

What is the tipping point number? Obviously it's going up 200 per week - which is amazing. I don't want to sound alarmist but with more ARM resets it's likely to continue to get worse, possibly at a slower rate but worse. At what point does this number cause trouble?

Harriet said...

madmonkey,

That would be a good post topic - finding past foreclosure data to compare. I've noticed that on places like the Bubble Meter blog, the locals who think the market here is "different" like to cite Virginia's low foreclosure numbers (compared to the rest of the nation). So it's kind of interesting to keep track.