The number of foreclosure homes in Alameda is down 69 percent over last year, and they're selling for an average of $98,000 less than non-foreclosure houses.
That's according to a report released Thursday from Realty Trac, which shows 117 homes in some sort of foreclosure in Alameda with 9 of those houses for sale.
The median sale price for foreclosure homes was $452,000 in April. That was 14 percent higher than April 2012.
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The median sale price for non-foreclosure houses was $540,000, up 11 percent from a year before.
In May, the number of properties that received a foreclosure filing in Alameda was 36 percent higher than April and down 69 percent from May 2012.
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Overall, homes sales in Alameda in April were up 41 percent from the previous month but up 1 percent from the year before.
The figures were part of a national report released by Realty Trac that showed there are 712,000 foreclosure homes in the United States. Of those, 167,000 have been vacated by their owners.
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