Stats thru Week 3 of March

We still have another week in March but I thought it might be useful to look at the stats through three weeks of the month and compare them to the same time last year.  I looked at the period from March 1 through March 23 for both 2011 and 2012.  Here is what I found:

Deeds - in 2011 there were 257; in 2012 there were 346; an increase of 35%

Mortgages - in 2011 there were 636; in 2012 there were 903; an increase of 44%

Foreclosure Deeds - in 2011 there were 23; in 2012 there were 38; an increase of 65%

Orders of Notice - in 2011 there were 53; in 2012 there were 70; an increase of 32%.

as for the orders of notice, here's there breakdown by community:

Billerica - 5
Chelmsford - 3
Dracut - 9
Tewksbury - 7
Tyngsborough - 2
Westford - 3
Wilmington - 7
Lowell - 35