Los Angeles County saw 9,867 unique foreclosure filings in April, down about 10 percent from March, according to Default Research, a Mt. Pleasant, Pa.-based tracker of foreclosure activity.
Southern California saw a 4 percent drop in the filings, known as Notice of Defaults or Notice of Trustee Sales, from March to April. That amounted to 31,331 filings in April.
"Southern California, one of the hardest hit areas in the country, seems to have hit bottom as far as foreclosures go," Default Research founder Serdar Bankaci said in a statement.
In Los Angeles County, the city of Los Angeles had the highest number of foreclosures for April, at 1,824. Palmdale was second with 527, followed by Lancaster with 478 and Long Beach with 434.
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