The rate of foreclosure filings – a bank repossession, default notice or auction sale notice – increased 22.54 percent in Florida for the first six months of 2012 compared with the same period last year, according to a report released Thursday by RealtyTrac, a California-based company that tracks distressed properties. Read original article here

The time to act to save your home from foreclosure may be drawing to an end sooner than you had thought…or hoped.

The courts are actively clearing the books of foreclosure proceedings that have been stalled until recently.

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