SACRAMENTO, Calif. – In the 12-month period ending with March, foreclosures in Rhode Island more than doubled from the same period a year earlier, according to First American CoreLogic, a California-based real estate data tracker.
Foreclosure filings in Rhode Island jumped from 4,713 to 10,571, a 124.3 percent increase. Foreclosures in the Providence-New Bedford-Fall River region rose from 7,702 filings to 13,650, a 77.2 percent rise.
Nationally, foreclosure filings were up 59.5 percent, rising from 2.37 million to 3.79 million during the 12-month period.
First American CoreLogic, a member of The First American Corp. group of companies, is a national provider of real estate, property and ownership data. It collects data from 7,569 ZIP codes in the 50 states and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.CoreLogic.com.
