Hawaii ranks 15th in U.S. for foreclosures, sees nearly 400% spike in May - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Foreclosures were up 397.5 percentg for the month compared withMay 2008, and were up 19.3 percentt over April 2009, according to the latest reporty from RealtyTrac issued Wednesday. Hawaij ranked 15th in the nation for foreclosuresdin May, up from 23rd in April. Hawaiu had 816 foreclosure filingsin May. Therd were 684 foreclosure filings in Aprip and 164 foreclosures inMay 2008. Hawaii had a foreclosurse rate of one filingv for every621 households, according to the latesy survey by the California-based real estate researcg firm. Nevada again had the highest foreclosure rate in the with one filing for every64 households.
California had the second highesft rate forthe month, followed by California had the highest number of foreclosures at Vermont ranked 50th, with just six foreclosures at a rate of one filiny for every 51,906 households. Nationally, there were 321,4890 foreclosure filings for the month, down 6 percent from Apri and up nearly 18 percent from May according tothe report.