After pretty much ignoring the data about new foreclosure listings in Greensboro for a few weeks (uh, months) I’m back at it. Sadly, not much has really changed.

Overall, the news about real estate has actually been more positive lately. I hesitate to type that too loudly as it may scare off the good mojo. And some of the good sales information is no doubt due to the Home Buyer’s Tax Credit that recently went the way of the VCR so we may start hearing more subdued reports regarding pending sales and mortgage applications. But there does seem to be a different atmosphere out there. I have clients who are interested in buying, even though they won’t be getting paid by the government to do so, and the wild look in many Realtors’ eyes has been turned down to a mere “freaked out” look rather than the “total panic” we’ve all gotten used to seeing.

Back to Greensboro’s foreclosures, suffice to say that there are plenty of them and the numbers continue to grow at a sickly rate every week. This is too bad because last year I was writing about how weekly listings and – to me, more illustrative of the situation – the number of listings over the previous 12 weeks was declining.

Not any more.

As a matter of fact, year over year comparisons of last week’s numbers show a decided increase in listings. And the trend shows no real indication of slowing.

The numbers:

The week ending last Sunday (May 23rd) had 19 new foreclosures listed. All but one Greensboro zip code – 27408 – had listings, with 27455 having the most at 5.

Looking at these zip codes over the last 4 weeks we see that 27405 and 27406 have had the most foreclosure listings at 15 and 17 respectively. There were no new listings in 27408 over the last four weeks.

Taking all foreclosure listings over all Greensboro zips over the last 12 weeks, it’s easy to see that see that there are still three zip codes that have been disproportionately impacted by foreclosures. 27405, 27406 and 27408 have a combined total of 114 listings over the last 12 weeks out of 186 for all zip codes. That translates to over 60% of foreclosures. On the other end of the spectrum, 27408 had 1% of foreclosures listed over the same period.

The 12-week rolling period isn’t any more cheering. The trend is up. And then up some more:

Being sufficiently depressed over all this so I decided to look at the same week last year. It didn’t make me feel any better:

I’m going to choose to believe all this activity is like when a toilet gets backed up and then a great woosh of … well, of stuff that smells exactly like these foreclosure numbers….goes flying through the pipes all at once.

Enough of my poetic writing. I’m off to make some showing appointments. That’s good news, right?

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If you have questions, comments or a good joke to share shoot me an email.  I’m a full time Realtor®, I love what I do and would be thrilled to hear from you.

* All data from Triad Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and is only as good as the information entered, which is done by humans, who make errors. The information is only for those residential zip codes for Greensboro and does not include the surrounding communities

It just keeps getting better.

There were only 6* new foreclosure listings in Greensboro for the week ending 3/15/09. That is a really small number. The average weekly listings since I started tracking in early September ’08 is 12.

And the total number listed in the 12-week rolling period ending on 3/15 is 142.

One-forty-freaking-two. It’s been as high as 165

AND, the number of listings closed or under contract are increasing. Can we get a round of applause? (I’ll wait for the cheering to subside…)

Add to all this and across the state foreclosures numbers are way down. I’m calling it. We’ve rounded the corner in regards to foreclosed homes. **whew!!**

Here. Look at the graphs and charts. Lovely, lovely, lovely.

As always, whether the news is good or bad, you’ll see it here.

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If you have questions, comments or a good joke to share shoot me an email.  I’m a full time Realtor®, I love what I do and would be thrilled to hear from you.

* All data from Triad Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and is only as good as the information entered, which is done by humans, who make errors. The information is only for those residential zip codes for Greensboro and does not include the surrounding communities.