Update 2008: Chicagoland Foreclosures Reach Record Highs

ilFLS.com released official Illinois foreclosure statistics showing another staggering wave of foreclosed properties in the 1st Qtr. of 2008.

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 10, 2008 -- Foreclosures on properties in the Chicagoland Area (which includes Cook, Dupage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, Will and Winnebago Counties) continued into record territory in the 1st quarter of 2008, according to the Illinois Foreclosures Listings Service, a Chicago area provider of foreclosures, auctions and REOs for investors (http://www.ilFLS.com).

The 15,000 new foreclosure listings filed in the first part of 2008 were an all time high, representing an 8% increase over the 4th quarter of 2007 and a mind blowing 100% increase from the filings in the 1st quarter of 2006 (see attached chart.)

We thought we had seen a peak with the unprecedented levels of foreclosures in the last part of 2007

but clearly the combination of the continuing weakness in the housing market, the subprime mortgage meltdown, and a U.S. economy in recession has taken its toll on overextended homeowners.

"We thought we had seen a peak with the unprecedented levels of foreclosures in the last part of 2007," says T.J. McKinney Investor Relations for ilFLS.com, "but clearly the combination of the continuing weakness in the housing market, the subprime mortgage meltdown, and a U.S. economy in recession has taken its toll on overextended homeowners."

About ilFLS.com:

ilFLS.com, http://www.ilFLS.com, the Illinois Foreclosure Listing Service, is a Chicago based provider of foreclosures, auctions, REOs, probates and divorce data geared toward the local real estate investor community.

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