U.S. Foreclosure Activity Sets New Quarterly Record, Up 23 Percent From Q3 2008 IRVINE, Calif. - Oct. 15, 2009 - RealtyTrac® (realtytrac.com), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released its U.S. Foreclosure Market ReportTM for Q3 2009, which shows that foreclosure filings - default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions - were reported on 937,840 properties in the third quarter, a 5 percent increase from the previous quarter and an increase of nearly 23 percent from Q3 2008. One in every 136 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure (1 comments)