Another steep dive in foreclosure filings

The stranglehold on foreclosures tightened during March in Southwest Florida, with filings dropping 30 percent from an already slow February and by 75 percent from a year ago.

Once one of the top four states in the country in foreclosure filings per household, Florida dropped to No. 8 in March, behind Nevada, Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho, Georgia and Michigan, according to data from RealtyTrac, an Irvine, Calif.-based firm that tracks the phenomenon.

Florida courts processed 19,710 foreclosure actions last month, up 5 percent from February but down 66 percent from March 2010.

Across the country, 239,795 cases were processed, a 6.5 percent increase from February, but a 35 percent drop from March 2010, when RealtyTrac counted the highest number of cases since it began tracking foreclosures in January 2005.

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