End of May recording statistics

Here's a preview of the end of May recording statistics compared to last May's stats. This is as of 3:30 pm, so the 2010 numbers will increase slightly.

For Lowell, deeds were down 28%, dropping from 227 in May 2009 to 164 in May 2010; mortgages increased 45%, rising from 132 to 191; foreclosure deeds were up 182%, jumping from 11 to 31; orders of notice were down 18%, sliding from 34 to 28.

In the nine towns in the Middlesex North District, the statistics were as follows: the number of deeds recorded in May 2010 rose 70% from the number recorded in May 2009, rising from 207 to 352; mortgages dropped 52%, from 1407 to 673; foreclosure deeds rose 136%, from 11 to 26; and orders of notice jumped 81%, from 27 to 49.