Metro Orlando home foreclosures among worst in the U.S.

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Central Florida home foreclosures ticked up in February, with 808 homes going through the legal process — continuing the steady increase since the federal moratorium on foreclosures ended in July 2021.

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While foreclosures are still below where they were pre-pandemic, the gap has been narrowing, with Orange County having three more foreclosures in February 2024 than it did in February 2020.

So states a new report by California-based real estate data firm Attom, which reflected the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro as having the seventh-worst foreclosure rate in the U.S. — meaning it had the seventh-highest number of foreclosures per housing units.

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