{"id":1523,"date":"2011-09-08T13:41:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2011-09-08T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:41:03","slug":"a-steep-drop-in-nh-home-foreclosures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/09\/08\/a-steep-drop-in-nh-home-foreclosures\/","title":{"rendered":"A Steep Drop In NH Home Foreclosures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news in real estate this week is the state&#8217;s sharply declining foreclosure rate.\u00a0 As NHPR&#8217;s Jon Greenberg reports, <a title=\"Home Foreclosure Pace Slows in July\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/home-foreclosure-pace-slows-july-0\" target=\"_blank\">The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority counted 238 homes that went into foreclosure in July<\/a>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about a 30 percent drop from June of 2011 <em>and<\/em> from July of last year.<!--more--> But Greenberg points out that, &#8220;one reason for the slow down is lenders are taking longer to process foreclosures.\u00a0 For the housing market, that just draws out the pain of dealing with troubled properties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Kathleen Callahan of the <em>New Hampshire Business Review<\/em> <a title=\"N.H. foreclosures fall in July \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhbr.com\/businessnewsstatenews\/931801-257\/n.h.-foreclosures-fall-in-july.html\" target=\"_blank\">expands on that idea<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The authority warned that the overall recovery could be slowed since lenders have allowed the period of delinquency prior to foreclosure to extend &#8212; in part due to delays in document processing and in part in hopes that the market will improve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;These conditions set the stage for a protracted period during which significant numbers of foreclosed and distressed properties will negatively influence the housing market, slowing its overall recovery.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority has <a title=\"Foreclosure Update\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhhfa.org\/rl_docs\/housingdata\/ForeclosureUpdate_09-07-11.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a number of interesting tables<\/a> illustrating the nuances of foreclosure numbers.\u00a0 Take this one, which shows the percentage of home loan payments that were past due during the second quarter of 2011.\u00a0\u00a0 At 7.1 percent, New Hampshire&#8217;s slightly below the New England average of 7.56 percent, which in turn is a bit below the national average of 8.1 percent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1524\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 600px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/09-07-11_installmentspastdue_chart.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1524\" title=\"Percent of Loans With Payments Past Due In Quarter 2 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/09-07-11_installmentspastdue_chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/09-07-11_installmentspastdue_chart.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/09-07-11_installmentspastdue_chart-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/09-07-11_installmentspastdue_chart-220x135.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">New Hampshire Housing<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news in real estate this week is the state&#8217;s sharply declining foreclosure rate.\u00a0 As NHPR&#8217;s Jon Greenberg reports, The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority counted 238 homes that went into foreclosure in July.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about a 30 percent drop from June of 2011 and from July of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[505,516],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}