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Have Foreclosures Peaked?

January 17, 2013 RealtyTrac Vice President Daren Blomquist appears on CNBC Street Signs and talks about the 2012 year-end foreclosure report, which shows foreclosures have peaked nationally but are up in some states. View Summary > Copy and paste this code to embed on your site Add Comment

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Blomquist explains why about half of the states experienced increasing foreclosure activity in 2012 while the other half of the states continued to see another year of decreasing foreclosure activity after decreasing in 2011 off the 2010 peak.

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