A leading information portal, Foreclosures.com has recently claimed that the foreclosure tide may have finally started turning.

Specialising in foreclosure related information the company supports its claims with figures that show that the rate of foreclosures appears to be dropping over April and May of this year. The data shows that not only has the number of foreclosures declined by 11.98 % from April but the number of pre-foreclosures too has dropped by 8.89 % in May this year.

Over the past 20 years ForeclosureS.com has collected and analysed foreclosure information and amassed a huge database of more than 5.5 million property listings. The information on the foreclosures is sourced from formal notices filed against a property. These include notices of default, foreclosure auctions and REO foreclosure. The accuracy of the information provided has made ForeclosureS.com a reliable reference point for many professionals.

President of ForeclosureS.com, Alexis McGee emphasises that the numbers reflect her own estimation that the housing market is in a better situation than it would otherwise appear. She points out that buyers are resorting to purchasing foreclosed homes as the number of new houses being constructed has fallen. Thus supply is once again catching up with demand and the housing market is finally reaching rock bottom.

McGee also attributes the turnabout in part to efforts by the government and industry to help homeowners sort out their problems with mortgage and defaulting payments. Today, much is being done by all the concerned parties to ensure that defaulting homeowners avoid foreclosure by working out alternative options.

As an expert and educator in foreclosures, McGee herself has authored The ForeclosureS.com Guide to Advanced Investing Techniques You Won’t Learn Anywhere Else (Wiley) and The ForeclosureS.com Guide to Investing in Pre-foreclosures Without Selling Your Soul (Wiley).

While emphasizing that the monthly figures were cause for optimism, McGee is also careful to point out that the year to date (YTD) figures show that there is still a long way to go before the current foreclosure crisis can be termed over. The YTD data reflects increases in foreclosures since last year. According to ForeclosureS.com, the number of REOs rose by 68.36 % since last year and out of every 1000 households, 117 faced pre-foreclosure. However the monthly REO numbers have started falling recently, which is being seen as a positive sign.

More detailed data and statistics regarding foreclosure filings at various stages can be accessed on the ForeclosureS.com website.

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Default Research is one of the chief sources of real estate and foreclosure information based in the Detroit area. According to them, the rate of foreclosure has made a jump of 38 percent in Michigan in January 2008. Default Research reports that in January 2008, 2,501 houses in Wayne, 713 in Macomb and 588 in Oakland were facing foreclosure.

In 2007, the Detroit area was one of the most badly affected areas. Even though the rate of foreclosure is still on a steady hike, Default Research predicts that this year should be less devastating than the previous year. Sardar Bankaci, the founder of Default Research says that t according to the research, in Detroit, the foreclosure crisis was at its peak during the last year. He goes on to say that there has been a fall in the housing inventories over the last six months. Also, even though the median prices are still declining, they are on the process of leveling out.

The Michigan foreclosures were at the heart of the nation’s foreclosure crisis. Thus this was indeed a very positive indicator with respect to Michigan foreclosures. 2.65 percent of the homes in the Detroit metro area went into foreclosure in the previous month. The effect of recession has had quite a widespread impact and it prompted the officials from Washington D.C to take action in the form of lowering the rates of interest.

The company feels that this policy is going to be extremely popular among the clients based in Michigan as well as people across the nation who are looking forward to making investments in foreclosed properties. Bankaci says that now that the interest rates have been lowered, people will find that real estate is a good tool to make profit and simultaneously, it will also help families who are facing foreclosure crisis. Bankaci feels that this is a very good opportunity of buying and renting properties as well as quickly receive a monthly return on the investment.

Those mortgage brokers who were using the lists would now be able to provide the home owners with lower rates of fixed loans and the home owners could be refinanced accordingly. Moreover with the lowering of interest rates the banks were willing to approve of more loans. As a result, the investors have more credit to make pre foreclosure purchases. Also, even the homeowners have access to credit and can make a purchase. More information about Default Research can be found on their website: www.defaultresearch.com.

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Default Research, which is one of the main sources of foreclosure and real estate information reported that in January 2008, the Florida foreclosed homes rate had made a jump of 198 percent in Florida. Default Research has observed that the highest volume of increase was recorded in Broward which had a figure of 1,888 and Miami-Dade, which had a figure of 1,236, in January.

Serdar Bankaci, the founder of the organization stated that there was not much difference between the end of year 2007 and beginning of year 2008 as the volume of foreclosure kept on increasing. He says that the foreclosure rate has gone up since there has been a hike in the field of speculative investing in the South Florida region during the last few years. Moreover, most people have their second houses in South Florida and people would rather let their second house get into foreclosure than jeopardize their primary home.

Default Research had seen that in the previous year, the daily average of the number of foreclosures in the particular area of observation in Florida was 220. Bankaci also says that, over the last ninety days, indicators have noticed that average home prices are declining while the inventories are hiking up. The term recession is having a widespread impact in the nation and it has prompted the officials from Washington D.C to take action in the form of lowering the rates of interest. Default Research’s client base in Florida is the second largest and it provides the most accurate and updated lists of the properties that had been foreclosed.

The company is confident that this policy would be very popular among the clients based in Florida as well as all over the nation. Now that the interest rates have been lowered, people who want to make some profit will find a very efficient investment tool in real estate and foreclosure. Moreover this will also help families who are facing any kind of financial difficulty. Bankaci feels that this is a fantastic opportunity to rent out and buy properties and get a quick monthly return from the investment.

The lists would also help the mortgage brokers who would be able to revise the finance schemes for buyers at a lower rate of interest. Even banks would now readily approve of loans and this would benefit the investors greatly as they now have access to credit to make pre-foreclosure purchases.

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The situation has become such today that it is possible for ordinary people wanting to buy homes, to look up the prices of homes on various sites on the internet. Large and popular real estate sites like PropertyShark.com and RealtyTrac.com have information about the various properties in the U.S in the pre-foreclosure state or facing foreclosure. The phenomenon of foreclosure is becoming more common by the day with the meltdown of subprime mortgage.

These sites contain lengthy lists of public information. They often have pictures of the house and sometimes even the phone numbers of the homeowners are displayed. All this makes it possible to avoid the hassle of handling court documents. Yahoo Real Estate along with RealtyTrac opened a site based on foreclosure which made such data accessible to all global users who amount to more than 500 million.

Those who are exploring this area are told by Yahoo’s site that their goal as a buyer should be to buy a property at a rate which is 20 percent less than the value of the full market, though at times even better deals are available. So, now the ordinary people wanting to buy homes are making more and more uses of all these sites, making most of the financial trouble of other people. Such opportunities are rising as the rate of foreclosure in the U.S has made a jump of almost 80 percent by 2007 end. People who are interested in buying can talk to the homeowners directly and very often all the transactions are being done before the properties get auctioned.

RealtyTrac has declared that, the number of monthly visitors to their site has jumped from 1 million to 3million over a period of 2 years and about 40 percent of the visitors are not investors or share brokers, but people buying homes for the first time. Even the number of overseas visitors to the site have increased due to the weakening of the U.S dollar. On the flip side, advice is being given out by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development on, how to avoid foreclosures when one is unable to pay the mortgage payments.

The buyers cannot ignore lender information and they should be apprehensive about whether a property has hidden liens and how the owner should be approached for the first time. People should know the situation very well before dealing with the house owners. More and more properties are facing foreclosure due to bad financing.

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