Foreclosure activity has gone down in 178 of America's 211 metropolitan areas. But filings continue to remain high, with one in every 111 housing units receiving one in the first half of 2011, according to RealtyTrac.
We pulled the top 15 areas with the highest foreclosure rates, and most lie in the Spanish Belt. All the areas are from California, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, and Idaho.
Unsurprisingly Las Vegas-Paradise again posted the highest foreclosure rate with 5.36% of all homes receiving a foreclosure filing in the first half of 2011.
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