First Quarter 2011 WI Housing Foreclosure Data Available
19. Apr, 2011
Housing foreclosures remained high but declined slightly across the state in the first quarter of 2011 according to data compiled by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community & Economic Development and the UW-Whitewater.
Overall, there was a slight decline of 3.4% in foreclosures statewide from the fourth quarter of 2010 and a decline of 14.4% from the first quarter of 2010. Total foreclosures fell from 7620 in the first quarter of 2010 to 6519 in the first quarter of 2011. At the time of publication data from Portage County was not yet included in the state totals. Milwaukee County continued to account for the greatest percentage, 22%, of foreclosures in the state for the first quarter of 2011. Calculations are based on non-duplicated foreclosure cases filed in civil court for each Wisconsin county.
