Home Foreclosures Way Up
Southern California as a whole saw an increase in foreclosures of about 13 percent from April 2008 to May 2008, and an increase of 219 percent from May 2007 to May 2008, according to Default Research, which compiles foreclosure data.
Los Angeles County had 11,770 foreclosure documents (6,396 Notices of Default recordings and 5,374 were Notice of Trustee Sales recordings) filed in May 2008.
Home prices in L.A. County have come down about 18 percent in the last year, and they continue to decline.