The good news is the rate of foreclosures in Florida seems to have slowed down a bit.  The bad news is filings still rose 8% from May.  June's foreclosure number topped out at 40,351, which is one in every 211 homes in Florida.  According to Realty Trac, who publishes one of the largest foreclosure and bank-owned databases, California and Florida are ranked among the top 10 in the nation for the number of foreclosures (California had 68,666 filings in June).  Miami ranked number 15, but fortunately Tampa/St. Pete did not make the top 20.  As the short sales numbers go up, we hope the number of foreclosures will decline.  I think it will take the economy a couple of years to improve.

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