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(Note: Foreclosure Monitor is an effort by MHP to help public officials and community leaders determine how best to use their resources to help homeowners and neighborhoods hard-hit by foreclosure).

Latest reports

Community focus: Foreclosures ripple into new areas (July 29, 2010) NEW

Our quarterly analysis of foreclosure data by community, zip code and census tract finds that while foreclosure activity seems to have peaked in the hardest-hit urban areas, the problem is rippling into nearby neighborhoods. Also, the problem seems to be spreading into Worcester County and more into the single-family home market.

3-family report: Market showing an appetite (June 17, 2010)

Known as the problem child in the Massachusetts real estate market, Foreclosure Monitor finds that 3-family properties are selling and that investor interest could mean that we're headed toward a repeat of the boom-bust cycle. 

Special report: Shadow inventory  (March 17, 2010)

In March, Foreclosure Monitor tried to sift through conflicting reports about recovery and a second wave of foreclosures by trying to estimate the size and potential impact of this so-called shadow inventory. By analyzing properties that comprise this shadow inventory - delinquencies, petitions, and bank-owned properties, one get a handle on how big our problem could be and which communities are at risk of a second foreclosure wave. MORE

Community focus archive: Quarterly reports by town, zip, census tract

BOSTON ---  Every quarter, Foreclosure Monitor reports on foreclosure trends by community, zip code and census tract. This file includes previous Foreclosure Monitor reports from May 2009 to April 28, 2010. MORE

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