Mid-month statistics

With March half over, it's time to look at recording statistics for the first two weeks of the month.  Deeds were up 14% when compared to the first two weeks of March 2011, going from 177 to 202.  Mortgages were up nearly twice that, rising from 423 to 539, a 27% jump.   There was no change in foreclosure deeds with 22 in both time periods, but orders of notice, the document that initiates a new foreclosure, doubled, jumping from 27 to 54.

The early March 2012 orders of notice were distributed as follows:

• Billerica - 3
• Chelmsford - 3
• Dracut - 7
• Lowell - 23
• Tewksbury - 6
• Tyngsborough - 2
• Westford - 3
• Wilmington - 6