Year-to-date (December 2011), close to one in four listings in New Castle County closed as a short sale or bank-owned property, and one in three in Kent County.  Above, we see the figures for December alone, and below we see the figures for  2011 as a whole. The biggest difference between New Castle and Kent Counties is that 15.5% of REO or Bank-Owned properties settled in NCCO, while 22.6% closed in Kent.  Short sale figures are almost identical, although the more populous northern county handled almost four times as many individual properties. .

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