The Orlando area notched the seventh-highest foreclosure rate among the nation’s largest metro areas in 2009, RealtyTrac reported. The Orlando metropolitan statistical area posted an 8.2 percent year-end foreclosure rate, with one in every 12 households receiving a filing. A total of 72,141 filings — including notices of default, auction notices and bank repossessions — were filed on Orlando MSA homes last year, a 54 percent jump when compared with 2008’s 46,843. Lake County experienced the biggest increase in foreclosure filings with a 65.3 percent jump, from 4,714 filings in 2008 to 7,791 in 2009. Osceola County, meanwhile, had the highest foreclosure rate in the Orlando MSA with 12.5 percent, or one in every eight homes receiving a filing.
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