They are not steroids but they are growing..... all over the place!

This is about REOs (bank owned properties):REOs are not steroids but they are growing, all over the place. 

• Out of 56,493 NOD filings, California filed 40,761 for the month of March 2008.
• Out of 47,677 REO properties, California filed 14,025.

REOs (bank owned properties) numbers are growing at record high.  Since the lenders are turning down the short sale requests - the only choice left is foreclosure.  Foreclosures are at an all time record high in most areas (especially in California), so therefore the REO stats are up in these same areas.

The San Joaquin Valley is hit hard with Short Sales (pre-foreclosures) and REOs (bank owned foreclosure homes) and with Auctions.

Top state foreclosure rates:

Nevada, California, Florida:   One in every 139 Nevada households received a foreclosure filing during March, 3.9 times the national average and the highest state foreclosure rate for the 15th consecutive month. Foreclosure filings were reported on a total of 7,659 properties during the month, up 24 percent from the previous month and up nearly 62 percent from March 2007.

California, Florida, Ohio:  Foreclosure filings were reported on 64,711 California properties in March, the most of any state for the 15th consecutive month. California foreclosure activity increased nearly 21 percent from the previous month and almost 106 percent from March 2007.

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