Discovery Bay, CA, September 12, 2007 - ForeclosureRadar™ California's premier source for real-time distressed property investment data, issued its August 2007 CA foreclosure report showing that a total of 9,477 properties - with a total loan value of $3.86 Billion dollars - were sold at auction statewide, marking a 10.4 percent increase over July's total foreclosure sales. Speculator owned properties (i.e. non-owner occupied properties) accounted for $1.71 Billion dollars of that total and represented 44.3 percent, or 4199 of the properties sold at foreclosure auctions.
"Many blame subprime lending for our current real estate crisis, but rampant speculation, even by those with great credit, played a leading role," observed Sean O'Toole, Founder and CEO of ForeclosureRadar.com. "The subprime market took the first hit as those borrowers had the least to lose when they walked away. Now that nearly half of foreclosures represent non-owner occupied properties, it is clear that speculators are walking away too."
Other highlights from ForeclosureRadar's August Foreclosure Report include the fact that fully 90.3 percent of all foreclosure sales in California were for homes purchased or refinanced in 2005 and 2006. Of properties sold at auction, 95 percent went back to lenders - for a total of 9,015 properties with a loan value of $3.7 Billion dollars. Notices of Default, the first stage of the foreclosure process, rose by 16.3 percent in August to 26,563, and Notices of Trustee Sale, which set the auction date and time, fell by 2.2 percent to 12,896.
During August, Riverside County posted the state's highest per capita foreclosure activity. The Inland Empire's other county, San Bernardino, moved up just one spot to number 8, despite an 18.1% increase in foreclosure sales.
| California Foreclosure Statistics By County | ||||||
| Rank | Change In Rank | County | NDF | NTS | Sales | Population Per Sale |
| 1 | 2 | RIVERSIDE COUNTY | 3420 | 1704 | 1290 | 1,514 |
| 2 | 0 | SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY | 983 | 477 | 408 | 1,633 |
| 3 | 4 | MODOC COUNTY | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1,639 |
| 4 | 2 | STANISLAUS COUNTY | 783 | 366 | 299 | 1,720 |
| 5 | 0 | SACRAMENTO COUNTY | 1934 | 1038 | 797 | 1,739 |
| 6 | -5 | YUBA COUNTY | 101 | 50 | 38 | 1,838 |
| 7 | 4 | SOLANO COUNTY | 534 | 248 | 210 | 2,014 |
| 8 | 1 | SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY | 2672 | 1283 | 918 | 2,170 |
| 9 | -5 | MERCED COUNTY | 291 | 96 | 105 | 2,350 |
| 10 | -2 | CONTRA COSTA COUNTY | 1186 | 605 | 427 | 2,411 |
| 11 | 4 | SAN BENITO COUNTY | 34 | 10 | 23 | 2,506 |
| 12 | 0 | PLACER COUNTY | 272 | 157 | 124 | 2,552 |
| 13 | -3 | LAKE COUNTY | 49 | 16 | 22 | 2,914 |
| 14 | 0 | SUTTER COUNTY | 85 | 41 | 31 | 2,950 |
| 15 | 2 | KERN COUNTY | 823 | 410 | 262 | 2,977 |
| 16 | -3 | MADERA COUNTY | 94 | 49 | 43 | 3,358 |
| 17 | 27 | TRINITY COUNTY | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3,506 |
| 18 | 0 | SAN DIEGO COUNTY | 2147 | 1107 | 868 | 3,533 |
| 19 | -3 | EL DORADO COUNTY | 113 | 70 | 48 | 3,671 |
| 20 | 0 | MONTEREY COUNTY | 264 | 127 | 112 | 3,793 |
| 21 | 8 | AMADOR COUNTY | 28 | 11 | 10 | 3,813 |
| 22 | 10 | SHASTA COUNTY | 106 | 46 | 43 | 4,221 |
| 23 | 2 | FRESNO COUNTY | 640 | 276 | 192 | 4,685 |
| 24 | -1 | VENTURA COUNTY | 456 | 219 | 162 | 5,045 |
| 25 | -6 | YOLO COUNTY | 110 | 54 | 36 | 5,287 |
| 26 | 15 | PLUMAS COUNTY | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5,361 |
| 27 | -5 | IMPERIAL COUNTY | 66 | 28 | 31 | 5,374 |
| 28 | 25 | COLUSA COUNTY | 4 | 5,378 | ||
| 29 | 9 | TULARE COUNTY | 230 | 110 | 75 | 5,608 |
| 30 | -6 | SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | 204 | 103 | 74 | 5,698 |
| 31 | 2 | TUOLUMNE COUNTY | 31 | 8 | 10 | 5,823 |
| 32 | -6 | ALAMEDA COUNTY | 926 | 409 | 256 | 5,864 |
| 33 | -2 | ORANGE COUNTY | 1409 | 681 | 520 | 5,908 |
| 34 | 2 | SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY | 79 | 44 | 41 | 6,421 |
| 35 | 5 | NEVADA COUNTY | 60 | 23 | 15 | 6,671 |
| 36 | -8 | SONOMA COUNTY | 278 | 91 | 70 | 6,856 |
| 37 | -2 | LOS ANGELES COUNTY | 5197 | 2492 | 1485 | 6,899 |
| 38 | -11 | BUTTE COUNTY | 72 | 24 | 31 | 7,007 |
| 39 | 9 | TEHAMA COUNTY | 30 | 11 | 8 | 7,692 |
| 40 | -6 | NAPA COUNTY | 63 | 38 | 17 | 7,908 |
| 41 | -4 | CALAVERAS COUNTY | 5 | 9,142 | ||
| 42 | -3 | SANTA CRUZ COUNTY | 105 | 34 | 28 | 9,370 |
| 43 | 0 | SANTA CLARA COUNTY | 597 | 246 | 186 | 9,534 |
| 44 | -23 | SISKIYOU COUNTY | 18 | 10 | 4 | 11,537 |
| 45 | -3 | SAN MATEO COUNTY | 158 | 82 | 59 | 12,273 |
| 46 | 3 | MARIN COUNTY | 56 | 28 | 18 | 14,075 |
| 47 | -2 | DEL NORTE COUNTY | 7 | 1 | 2 | 14,598 |
| 48 | 2 | MENDOCINO COUNTY | 28 | 15 | 6 | 15,074 |
| 49 | -3 | KINGS COUNTY | 45 | 27 | 9 | 16,414 |
| 50 | 5 | INYO COUNTY | 1 | 18,515 | ||
| 51 | 0 | SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY | 95 | 64 | 32 | 24,959 |
| 52 | -5 | HUMBOLDT COUNTY | 25 | 4 | 5 | 26,505 |
| 53 | ND | GLENN COUNTY | 1 | 28,651 | ||
| 54 | ND | LASSEN COUNTY | 1 | 35,452 | ||
CALIFORNIA FORECLOSURE REPORT METHODOLOGY
The Report's Rankings were based on population per foreclosure sale. NDF indicates the number of Notices of Default that were filed at the county, and NTS indicates filed Notices of Trustee Sale. SALES indicates the number of properties sold at foreclosure auction. The data presented by ForeclosureRadar is based on county records and individual sales results from daily foreclosure auctions throughout the state: not estimates or projections.
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