“Foreclosure filings continue their significant drop nationally and foreclosure actions filed in Westchester County have declined almost fourteen percent since 2013,” reported Westchester County Clerk Timothy C. Idoni who serves as Clerk of the Westchester County Supreme Court where foreclosure actions are heard.
The Office of the Westchester County Clerk reported two thousand three hundred and twenty six (2,326) foreclosure actions started between January 1st and December 31st of 2014, as compared with two thousand six hundred and ninety six (2,696) in 2013.
However, foreclosure judgments were on the rise in 2014 with the seven hundred and seventy (770) filed more than doubling the three hundred and seventy one (371) foreclosure judgments entered in 2013. Idoni explained the higher number was in large part due to a clearing of back-logged cases caused by a change in court rules implemented to protect homeowners.
A month-by-month breakdown of foreclosure filings follows:
|
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
June |
July |
Aug |
Sept |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Total |
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|
2006 |
100 |
119 |
159 |
120 |
140 |
128 |
112 |
136 |
117 |
162 |
130 |
123 |
1,546 |
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|
2007 |
146 |
132 |
252 |
181 |
145 |
156 |
176 |
226 |
179 |
201 |
181 |
191 |
2,166 |
||
|
2008 |
243 |
231 |
285 |
224 |
202 |
225 |
238 |
242 |
73 |
96 |
71 |
76 |
2,206 |
||
|
2009 |
124 |
154 |
210 |
266 |
240 |
266 |
280 |
319 |
332 |
320 |
249 |
363 |
3,123 |
||
|
2010 |
260 |
181 |
222 |
210 |
208 |
262 |
219 |
247 |
216 |
209 |
110 |
141 |
2,485 |
||
|
2011 |
133 |
146 |
144 |
150 |
157 |
156 |
155 |
153 |
106 |
113 |
143 |
100 |
1,656 |
||
|
2012 |
105 |
131 |
142 |
148 |
150 |
147 |
192 |
161 |
159 |
184 |
142 |
150 |
1,811 |
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|
2013 |
207 |
199 |
275 |
269 |
265 |
210 |
252 |
227 |
138 |
227 |
195 |
232 |
2,696 |
||
|
2014 |
206 |
234 |
245 |
218 |
169 |
144 |
168 |
175 |
178 |
213 |
187 |
189 |
2,326 |
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Westchester Residential Opportunities (WRO), a non-profit housing agency with offices in White Plains and Mount Vernon, conducts Mortgage Default Orientation sessions most Wednesdays in their White Plains Office. Trained counselors are available to help at (914) 428-4507 or by visiting www.wroinc.org.
For more information on the Office of the Westchester County Clerk, please visit WestchesterClerk.com or call (914)995-3081.
