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“RealtyTrac® (www.realtytrac.com), the leading online marketplace for real estate data, today released a report showing that as of June owners had vacated 167,680 foreclosure properties nationwide, representing 20 percent of all U.S. properties in the foreclosure process. These owner-vacated foreclosures are in addition to 544,274 bank-owned homes nationwide that have been foreclosed on but not sold to a third party.
In addition, more than 650,000 homes in the foreclosure process have not been vacated by the homeowner, but are likely to end up as short sales, foreclosure auction sales or bank-owned sales in the future, bringing total foreclosure-related inventory on RealtyTrac to nearly 1.4 million.
Of the total 167,680 vacant foreclosure properties nationwide, Florida documented the most by far of any state, with 55,503, accounting for 33 percent of the national total.”
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