CA Foreclosures Near All-Time Low

By John | Published: March 25, 2007

California Foreclosures Near All-Time Low is a headline that seems ludicrous given all that we are hearing in the news these days. But, if you look at the historical data this statement is truer than California Foreclosures Near All-Time High.

The point being that statistics and headlines can be manipulated to create whatever story you want. This graph shows California foreclosures from 1974. If I cut the data from 1974 thru 1990 out of the graph, I could say California Foreclosures at 15 Year Low.

The green line represents foreclosures. The yellow line represents deliquancies. It seems that deliquancies with mortgage payments are even nearer to all time lows than foreclosures.

But, this data is from the entire state of California. If you plotted the data for the Los Angeles basin and compared it to the data from the San Francisco Bay Area, it would probably look very different.

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