Foreclosures trending downward

The end of September statistics brought some good news - a significant decline in the number of new foreclosures.  We measure those by the number of Orders of Notice, the first document recorded in the foreclosure process, that we record each month.  Here are the monthly numbers since January 2011 for the entire registry of deeds district:

2011
January 2011 - 27
February 2011 - 53
March 2011 - 63
April 2011 - 115
May 2011 - 71
June 2011 - 64
July 2011 - 52
August 2011 - 56
September 2011 - 33
October 2011 - 65
November 2011 - 78
December 2011 - 43

2012
January 2012 - 46
February 2012 - 78
March 2012 - 77
April 2012 - 44
May 2012 - 57
June 2012 - 52
July 2012 - 85
August 2012 - 111
September 2012 - 31