RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for real estate data, released its Midyear 2014 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows a total of 613,874 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in the first half of 2014, a 19 percent decrease from the previous six months and down 23 percent from the first half of 2013.
The report also includes new foreclosure activity data from June, when a total 107,194 U.S. properties had a foreclosure filing, down 2 percent from the previous month and down 16 percent from a year ago to lowest level since July 2006, before the housing price bubble burst.