FLORIDA PROPERTIES WITH FORECLOSURE FILINGS
U.S.
FLORIDA
624,753
2018
MARKET SPOTLIGHT
65,161
676,535
2017
65,149
Spotlight: Florida
933,045
2016
106,901
1,083,572
2015
159,773
BY JOEL CONE, STAFF WRITER IS FLORIDA AT RISK FOR ANOTHER REAL ESTATE CRISIS?
1,117,426
2014
159,773
1,361,795
2013
269,649
N ot all that long ago, a combination of risky loans and over-zealous speculation by real estate inves- tors and developers hit Florida harder than many other parts of the nation, turning it into one of the poster children for the housing crisis that followed. During its darkest hour, the number of properties with foreclosure filings in the state went from over 75,000 in 2006 to nearly 517,000 in 2009 (an almost 600 percent increase in just three years), according to data provided by ATTOM Data Solutions. More than a decade later, a lot has changed with the Sunshine State. For one, the annual total number of properties with foreclosure filings has dropped precipi- tously to just over 65,000 in both 2017 and 2018.
1,836,634
But despite those falling numbers, the state has con- tinuously led the nation in total properties with fore- closure filings since 2013. Additionally, Florida ranked the sixth highest foreclosure rate in the nation at one in every 140 households for all of 2018, ATTOM reported. Still, both population and job growth are expected to continue while the risk of a recession sometime in 2019 is considered to be low, according to a forecast earlier this year by the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Unemployment, which rose to as high as 11.2 per- cent in November 2009, is now hovering near historic lows at 3.5 percent projected for February 2019 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “All the economic indicators are pointing in the right
2012
279,230
1,887,777
2011
181,965
2,871,891
2010
485,286
2,824,674
2009
516,711
2,330,483
2008
385,309
1,285,873
2007
165,291
717,522
2006
75,303
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