The fact that
San Antonio foreclosures don’t even show up on the first 20 ranks on the Top 100 List for highest foreclosure rates is surely a good thing! The city has earned the number 43 spot on RealtyTrac’s Top 100 list due to the 6,409 foreclosure filings that were reported in the first 6 months of this year. This means that one foreclosure was filed per 112 households.
Currently, San Antonio foreclosures have posted a 15% decline from the
foreclosure properties rate recorded 6 months ago. The 3 lucky cities which made it to the bottom 3 spots on the dubious Top 100 list were McAllen, Texas; Greenville, S.C.; and Richmond, VA.
Foreclosures in San Antonio are available to every person who can qualify for a home loan or has ready cash at disposal. The median price for a residential home in San Antonio was $140,000 in 2006. The required qualifying income for a home of such value was only $35, 324 and the average family income in the city was almost $53,992 for the same year. What this means is that residential real estate is still affordable and rather easily obtainable to the average family in San Antonio, Texas.
With increasing subprime related scams, the San Antonio foreclosures have seen a rise and over 36 subprime mortgage companies have been forced to shut shop. The effect of subprime loans hasn’t really rocked San Antonio as much as many other cities in the country. However, subprime tremors have been experienced everywhere across the United States.
Texas foreclosures have been making waves as they gain one of the Top 5 spots for the highest number of foreclosures in the country. This is after a 16 percentage decline in foreclosure rates. The state of Texas has recoded 9,653 foreclosure filings for the 2nd quarter. This is 33% lower than the percentage reported for the same period in 2006. Currently ranked fourth, Texas is only behind California, Florida, and Ohio in foreclosure rates. Though one foreclosure in every 834 households is respectably below the national average, cities such as Dallas in Texas is ranked rather high on the highest
foreclosure list.
However, San Antonio foreclosures statistics are a happy conclusion to the otherwise depressing
real estate foreclosure scenario in the state.